BEES’ VENOM

Hokitika Guardian, 7 October 1932, Page 3

BEES’ VENOM

- —^ / NEW TRBATiviENT FOR ' j_; ■' ' BBEUMATJSM. . p- ... ■% ; .AUCKLAND, • October 4. “A marvellous- hew treatment, ,j •I saw when I was •in Vienna, - wag acvire for rheumatism by using veriom > tfnoro v fbe& stings'said, . Dr Hilda j ...Northcroft'< o* her return, by. tß< . Manngaaui from Sydney, after a-world tour .‘‘Promising ‘ results . have been Obtained hi'cases o£ ; neu ralgia; sciatica, and tic douloureux. r :j' The cure■ ■ ■•aid Dr sNorthcroitj had its oright'- iW the-well-known, immunity . frdm, rheumatism of people who-farmed beea. People -whO; were stung acci- ;• dentally by been- appeared never■ to irofo the complaint,., so it was to sting.> patients deliberately : iaan bflort to produce similar ■ -re-J suite.. The experiment wag successful, now large quantities of bees’ venom Wei> extracted, ; standardised, 1 one bottled.! ‘Fdtients'' wer e ' r given ia;: series of injections vdf fihcfeasing 1 virulence corresponding. -to y* Tsucoossion- of b®e v etings, and . the cure® effected- were •Afv impresgive. ; The ' treatment ■ had m.ih use In Vienna for about five years, and was now extending'- to: other countries Sfce : was-Ci-thre opinion 1 that an • investigation of the treatment by 1 New ZealaUd woUld be''well worth con ; ■ sideriiqf.’ “ ! : ' " •