Show BEES STiNG CURES One of the Latest Departures in European Medical Science Insect Inject Formic Acid That Break Dawn the Poliont An the Blood That Cause the Painful Disease London Deo slings are the latest cure advanced for rheumatism The working of the bee vaccl nator as this invention Is termed was shown at the exhibition of the Surrey Deekcepors association at the Crystal palace It Is an ingenious appliance secured se-cured to a small platform resembling the lid ofa box This isplaced over the hole of a hive and the bees readIly read-Ily enter It a trace of honey is applied as a bait outsldo a perforated zinc slide which Is part of the mechanism lly closing the slides the bees ara Imprisoned tho requisite number thus being secured The little vaccinators vacci-nators can then be removed from the hive or Inspection box and may be sentby post or carried about read for use + The actual operation of vaccination I I Is simplicity itself The bee vac ctnator is placed on the affected part of the patient and a knob is pressed down until the bees sting It Is one of the newest departures In medical science a wellknown medical man said and Is still in the experimental stage Hut for f some timorpast it has been observed that in a general way beekeepers bee-keepers certainly enjoy Imuiuriltj from rheumatism or if they have suffered from this complaint it hat disappeared after they have been stung a few times The effect of a bee sting Is thai the formic acid which the Insect injects breaks down or speaking informally neutralizes the poisons in the blood which give rise to tho symptoms o rheumatism The operation of bee vaccination should not of course be undergont without medical advice As for the number of bees requiredthat do pcpds on the patient and would br1 for a doctor to deoldo At St DartholomewB hospital II was ascertained that a bee vao clnator was actually In use in the treatment of patients suffering from rheumatism but no omclal statement as to the result of the experiment was as yet lorthcomlng Dees are regularly reg-ularly supplied to the hospital for the purpose Personally I have had the gooc fortune never to suffer from rheumatism rheuma-tism and I have kept bees ever since I can remember says a man who it exhibiting at the Crystal palace It does not follow that beekeeping Is a positive assurance of Immunltj from rheumatism but beekeepers ol my acquaintance who have sufferer from rheumatism have told mo how these pains have disappeared nftoi < they have been sung Any beekeeper will tell you tha the first few stings cause Inflamma tlon and swelling but this gradual goes down and after a while he ex pertencus little or no discomfort frort a bee sting A wasp sting lo a dlf ferent matter I am surprised the medical profs slon has not taken up bee vacclnatloi before The difficulty however has beet In manipulating the beesthat IB u persons other than beekeepers People operating have been li I greater danger or being stung thai the patient hitherto 1 This Invention has solved the difficulty dif-ficulty and secured the safety of and one carrying out the operation because be-cause It Is impossible for any of tht bees to escape Irom the vaccinator |