THE POISON OP THE HONEY-BEE. 71 



distention and weight, soon disappear ; the tongue 

 gradually loses its swollen and cracked appearance, 

 its dirty redness, its slimy coating, its sore spots, 

 tardy indentations along its edges, the burnt feeling 

 at its tip, which is dotted with very fine vesicles, 

 that cause a good deal of soreness; the pappy, sour, 

 bitter, metallic, foul taste disappears ; the appetite 

 is again normal; both the previous aversion to 

 food and the excessive craving disappear ; the ab- 

 sence of thirst, which is so common in this condi- 

 tion, again gives place to a natural desire for drink, 

 the bluish-red color and swelling of the palate and 

 throat, and the incessant urging to hawk, decrease 

 visibly : the distress after eating ; the sour stomach 

 with or without nausea or heartburn ; the excessive 

 rising of air ; the regurgitation of the ingesta ; the 

 eructations which taste of the food that had been 

 eaten long before; the yawning; the irresistible 

 drowsiness when sitting; the general loss of 

 strength; the vacuity of mind, the aversion to 

 talking and to company, decrease more and more 

 every day; the whole abdomen feels easier and 

 softer : the excessive and irresistible urging to uri- 

 nate, especially after rising from a chair or from 

 bed, and accompanied by a distressing nervousness, 

 abates; the diarrhceic and abnormally colored 

 evacuations, together with the frequent and irre- 

 sistible urging, increased after eating, early in the 

 morniag, and after sour and flatulent food, and 

 accompanied by various sore pains in the rectum, 

 diminish more and more, and give place to normal 

 evacuations, first for days, next for weeks, although 



