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Show E ectrlcity lor StlugH. Arcordb'g t" Dr Frledlandi'r of Wiesbaden, cbclrlclty Is an unttdote itgalnst stings of Insects. His plan in such cases Is to apply a coustntit current cur-rent and to place u negatlvo cat bullion bulli-on I ho t-pni stung hv the liu-ect. Gil-vaulziiilon Gil-vaulziiilon protiuces a rather strong hi'iimii Ion of burning, but at tliu same 'time thu pain from ilm Mtui disappears and If the electricity Is applied very soon after the wound has been Inflicted Inflict-ed there Is lltt.lu or no swulllug. The current, however, doea excoliunt service ser-vice oven If It be not applied uu I Hume lime has clnp-od, for II removes the pain unil also vulckly reduces tie swelling. Tho sipp"sli.lun Is that the poison which the Insect lias injeoteil tliroiiuli thu skin Is neutralized and rendered Innocuous by theciiiruut. Dr. Frledlander bus repeatedly mudu experiments ex-periments of this kind on persons who huvo been slung by bees mid wusps, and bus lovailably found them successful. suc-cessful. He naturally believes that a similar ruMilt would bunb:ulueil m the cases uf persons stung by other Insects. |