wallowed the insect. He was stung in the throat, followed by such
intense inflammation that the man died asphyxiated in the presence of
his friends, who could do nothing to relieve him. In connection with
this case there is mentioned an English agriculturist who saved the
life of one of his friends who had inadvertently swallowed a wasp with
a glass of beer. Alarming symptoms manifested themselves at the moment
of the sting. The farmer made a kind of paste from a solution of common
salt in as little water as possible, which he gave to the young man,
and, after several swallows of the potion, the symptoms disappeared as
if by enchantment. There is a recent account from Bridgeport, Conn., of
a woman who, while eating a pear, swallowed a hornet that had alighted
on the fruit. In going down the throat the insect stung her on the
tonsil. Great pain and inflammation followed, and in a short time there
was complete deprivation of the power of speech.

Mease relates the case of a corpulent farmer who, in July, 1835, was
stung upon the temple by a common bee. He walked to a fence a short
distance away, thence to his house, 20 yards distant, lay down, and
expired in ten minutes. A second case, which occurred in June, 1811, is
also mentioned by Mease. A vigorous man was stung in the septum of the
nose by a bee. Supported by a friend he walked to his house, a few
steps distant, and lay down. He rose immediately to go to the well,
stepped a few paces, fell, and expired. It was thirty minutes from the
time of the accident to the man's death. A third case is reported by
the same author from Kentucky. A man of thirty-five was stung on the
right superior palpebrum, and died in twenty minutes. Mease reports a
fourth ease from Connecticut, in which a man of twenty-six was stung by
a bee on the tip of the nose. He recovered after treatment with
ten-grain doses of Dover's Powder, and persistent application of
plantain leaves. A fifth case was that of a farmer in Pennsylvania who
was stung in the left side of the throat by a wasp which he had
swallowed in drinking cider. Notwithstanding medical treatment, death
ensued twenty-seven hours afterward. A sixth case, which occurred in
October, 1834, is given by the same author. A middle-aged man was stung
by a yellow wasp on the middle finger of the right hand, and died in
less than twenty minutes after having received his wound. A seventh
case was that of a New York farmer who, while hoeing, was b