Eureka Reporter | 1902-12-05 | Page 3 | New Use for Bees |

Type	issue
Date	1902-12-05
Paper	Eureka Reporter
Language	eng
City	Eureka
County	Juab
Rights	No Copyright - United States (NoC-US)
Publisher	Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah
ARK	ark:/87278/s68p6wg6
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Article Title	New Use for Bees
Type	article
Date	1902-12-05
Paper	Eureka Reporter
Language	eng
City	Eureka
County	Juab
Page	3
OCR Text	new use for bees down on long island the farmers have discovered that persons suf sefferine erint from rheumatism and sciatica can obtain relief by allowing honey bees to eting sting the affected parts this Is a very unpleasant process and entirely unnecessary the poison of the bee sting Is chiefly formic acid this acid Is also found in stinging nettles in ants and some varieties of caterpillars there Is no difficulty in preparing formic acid and it would seem that physicians might find it addan tadeous to experiment with it as a remedy for rheumatic troubles either ither in add acid form or in certain ly some means can be devised of in traducing it into the circulation less 1 painful than allowing bees to sting a rheumatic sufferer by wholesale
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