I 12 



The Honey-Makers 



From the Homoeopathic Pharmacopoeia we get the 

 following : — 



" Draw out the sting together with the poison-bag from 

 bees freshly killed. Taking hold of the bag, insert the 

 point of the sting into a small glass tube and squeeze the 

 poison into it. Or take a live bee with a pair of pincers 

 and allow it to take hold of a small lump of sugar. It will 

 immediately sting into the sugar which will absorb the 

 poison. Repeat this process until enough is accumulated 

 to start a trituration." 



Sometimes whole bees are used; in which case, the "live 

 bees, put into a bottle, are irritated by shaking, and then 

 drenched with five times their weight of dilute alcohol, and 

 allowed to remain eight days, being shaken twice a day. 

 The tincture is then poured off, strained, and filtered." 



Sometimes the bee-keeper is requested to supply bee- 

 stings, instead of bees or honey, not for the pleasure but 

 for the cure of ailing man. 



