BEE-STINGS AND INFLUENZA.
The virtue of bce-jstings as a protcction against inflnenza cannot he regarded as established. The immunity churned by Atickland beekeepers wan not enjoyed by a lady in the Bay of Plenty district, though ishe sagge-sts that her ease may have been the exception to this rule. "About t~Ko Kcekn f/cfore the influenza reached our little village/' she writes, "I started a tiny bee-farm, and To securing three swarms I afoo collected 20 stings—£ J gave up counting after 20. 1 thea went ;fo nurse a family who had influenza, and in five days went to bed with a fairly bad attack of the epidemie. I slonld perhaps «tate that my patients .nt ilC r,ered »er*ii, and the inSuenza bus a virulent type," confined to a-small apsee, so that it"was a severe lest." A-,<i the inevitable po*t,««ript: "Before the infleeaat.l did not hare, vtmh troable with rtiogj; now they isirell terribly, and are yeiy ifjaiafuL" Hwv irsany people would willingiy fcubialt to 20 bee-sting* a*, a preventattwe agaiEst iafluen2a, or any otfcer. di»easi'e I
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Otaki Mail, 8 January 1919, Page 2
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