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Decorah Public Opinion
Decorah, Winneshiek County, Iowa
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A Jenkintown, Pa., man discovered bee stings cured his rheumatism after accidentally upsetting a hive. He repeated the treatment successfully, including publicly with 100 bees at a Philadelphia beekeepers' convention. A physician attributed it to the poison counteracting uric acid in the blood.
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If the news reports of the experiences of a resident of Jenkintown, Pa., are to be believed, beekeepers are likely to receive a fresh accession to their ranks from confirmed rheumatic patients. The person in question, a man long troubled with rheumatism, was one day visiting a friend and accidentally upset a hive of bees. Though unrecognizable when they got through with him, he noticed that his rheumatism was gone. When the disease some time later made its appearance he tried the experiment again and found it worked. The other day he took treatment from a hundred bees before a beekeepers' convention in Philadelphia, which was naturally much interested in the experiment. The cure was explained by a physician whom he consulted as due to the poison from the stings acting as an antidote upon the uric acid in the blood, to which rheumatism is due.
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Bee Stings Curing Rheumatism
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Jenkintown, Pa.
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A man long troubled with rheumatism accidentally upset a hive of bees while visiting a friend, resulting in stings that eliminated his symptoms. He repeated the experiment successfully when symptoms returned. Recently, he endured stings from 100 bees at a Philadelphia beekeepers' convention. A physician explained the cure as the sting poison acting as an antidote to uric acid in the blood.