BEE-STINGS AS A CURE FOR RHEUMATISM.

Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 18 May 1901, Page 4

BEE-STINGS AS A CURE FOR RHEUMATISM.

The sting of a hce —the hoe that flits from flower to flower in the summer, working like a Trojan, and packing honey on its limbs —is not pleasant. It is a thing that children never cry for, but. according to a correspondent, it is a splendid remedy.for rheumatism. This coarcspondent says: — It is more than 25 years since I found out what a blessing to suffering mankind the bee-sting can be, and fer 25 years I have been an almost constant patient of my little physicaus. Rheumatism took me in the wrist one day, and though I was in pain I went from home and visited a man who had a couple of colonics on his place. It was swarming time and the little fellows were not in the best of humeur. I was a stranger and they resented my presence in a way I shall never forgot. My face was covered, but when one fellow got on my hand the ethers came in a cluster and they dug in hard and deep. I was a pretty sight. Both hands swelled up to twice their size, but when the pain of the bees’ stings died away I noticed that the rheumatism was gone. The next time I had a bad attack of rheumatism I again went over to my neighbour’s and allowed myself to be stung in the same way again, and from that day to this I have never been without bees.”

Despite this assurance, we are afraid that bee-stinging will never become a popular remedy for rheumatism.