A NOVEL CURE FOR GOUT.

Clutha Leader, Volume V, Issue 213, 9 August 1878, Page 6

A NOVEL CURE FOR GOUT.

A cure of gout (says an English contemporary) by the means of the sting- ot bans, is reported from Germany. .* A woman suffered so severely from J gout that she, ibr six months, found : j neither sleep nor rest, whilst her right | arm was suffering so much that she ~i was not only prevented from all work, | bufc conld not even dress or undress A herself. Her bushand was told of a)i peasant, who, quite disabled by rheu- 3 inatism, had been cured by a bee ac- A cidentally stinging him. He then per- ■$ suaded his wife to try this remedy, as 'f| the |)ain caused by a bee-sting could I hardly be as great as that she was 'f suffering. In consequence, three bees >| were placed on her arm, and pressed l| down somo time, so that the' poison ;| vesicles should be well emptied. The Jg success was a surprising one. The r| patient enjoyed a long and quiet sleep ':| during the next aight, while the pain, v| which had been tormenting her six M months, had nearly quite vanished. In ;.| consequence of the bee-stings, the arm || was, oi course, very much swelled, but |j cold embrocations cured this, svnd the | arm was aitev wards free from all pain, and had regained its former strength. Since then the patient has had neither '^ gout nor rheumatism. Jj