86 Directions to guard againft the Sting of a Bee. 
from flower to flower, without provoking them 
to fting: they rather, on fuch occafions, fly off 
from the mtruder, as unworthy of their no- 
tice. 
The flings of bees have very different effects 
on different perfons. There are fome perfons, 
upon whom the fting of a bee produces neith- 
er inflammation nor pain. Such people need ufe 
no precaution, even when they are fure to re- 
ceive many ftings. Upon others, again, the 
fting of a bee, -occafions fuch exquifite: pain, 
accompanied with {welling and inflammation, 
that nothing can terrify them more than the 
ficht of a bee. This laft clafs fhould not be 
difcouraged. I myfelf have felt very differ- 
ent effects from their ftings at different times. 
The feldomer lam ftung, and the longer in- 
terval that oecurs fince 1 was laft wounded, 
the greater pain I feel, and the more I fwell: 
but when [am ftung twice or thrice in a day, 
¥ value it not a pin. I have fometimesre- 
ceived forty flings in a day without fwelling 
im the lealt. The reafon of this I prefume not 
to account for; I only mention the fad, leav- 
ing if to medical people, or thofe who have 
Ludied the nature of animal poifons, to in- 
yeltigate the c aufe. 
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