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Show Oxford university, Dr. Ainle Walker, ' has for some months boon Investigate lng thlH'subjcct, and the data that ho has gathered from physicians and patients pa-tients clearly indicate that the poison of bees has a quieting action on rheumatic rheu-matic pains. CURED BY BEE STING. Literary Digest tsays: That rheumatism rheuma-tism may bo relieved by injection of bee poison administered by the bees themselves through the Instruments provided by nature for that purpose, has long been known, although not many physicians have been radical enough to use the method in their current cur-rent practice. A recent Inquiry Into the origin of this old "bee cure'' and its actual results confirms the popular tradition of Its efficacy. Says Dr. A. Cartaz, writing In La Nature (Paris): "It Is a popular belief in many parts of France and other countries that the stings of bees constitute a sovereign remedy against rheumatism of tho Joints. This belief, which, as we shall see, Is Justified by authentic facts, probably arose from some accident. A beekeeper, or a simple peasant, may have been stung by a bee and have noted the disappearance of a rheumatic rheu-matic pain of long standing. Such was the case of Mr. De Gasjarlr., us reported re-ported by Dr. DosJardlns, 50 years ago, in L'Unlon Medlcale. A rheumatic affliction of the Joints had caused him continued suffering and he had In vain UBed the waters of Aix and St. Laurent, when ho was one day stung seriously by a wasp In his right wrl6t The arm, which had been very painful, pain-ful, swelled at once, but tho pain, at the "same time, disappeared. Seeing this happy result, the victim caused himself to be stung on other parts of tho body, and the rheumatism was cured." It would bo difficult to ascertain at what epoch this now treatment took Its place as an acknowledged method. Deo culture dates back to the earliest times, and it Is probablo that tho accident ac-cident Just described happened In other circumstances. A professor In |