Show some of the popular cures for rheumatism american men of science have returned to an old cure for rheumatism in the shape of bee stings the explanation is that a bee when stinging injects formic acid which is a cure for rheumatism what probably happens is that the pat ent after hav ing sat tor for some time on the beehive forgets all about the rheumatism it is probably the long continuance of damp weather which has inspired eo so many newspaper correspondents to give the world just now their notions on cures for rheumatism we referred briefly the other day to the american revival of cure by bee stings a meas ure heroic enough to please every si mon in the world and now we are told in the press of a cure by means of a mole moles s foot worn next to the skin suspended from the neck by a silken cord so that it hangs a little below the chest in many jewelers shops one may see rings for rheum it being a common faith among even educated people that a metal ring worn on the little finger of the left hand is a cure infallible but of all these notions the most interest ing and probably the most popular in england is that known by the name of the potato cure as the london globe says it is said that if a person suf fering from rheumatism will carry a potato about with him he will find himself free from pain and distress it Is aser asserted ted that a potato carried in the pocket of a rheumatic person will speedily become as hard as a rock while in the I 1 beeping of a person free from the complaint it remains in its ordinary condition therefore it would appear as if the explanation of faith in this case does not apply as it would perhaps in the matter of charms so oo far as we I 1 now science has no pronounced judgment on the potato cure but it would certainly be interesting to obtain a scientific ex of the hardening of the potato revenge may be sweet if one could forget |