A remarkable case is reported from North Weald, in Essex. Some five weeks ago a Mrs Pegrume was stung on the arm by some insect, and as the wound became more and more painful, and the arm became very much swollen, bloodpoisoning was feared, Dr Fowler was called, and he discovered, on probing the wound, a live beetle, about half an inch long, under the fiesh. Apparently when the sting was inserted into the fiesh an egg was deposited, and the natural warmth of the woman’s body caused her to become a human incubator.
John Bunyan in his prison cell, On Pilgrim’s Progress loved to dwell, And nearly all that startling tale He wrote while pining in a gaol. His work lives on though John succumbed, No doubt the damp his limbs had numbed, And gave him cold ; his death that's sure, He’d not got Woods’ Great Pei-pebmist Cube,
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Gisborne Times, Volume VI, Issue 208, 9 September 1901, Page 1
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