A seventh case was that
of a New York farmer who, while hoeing, was bitten on the foot by
a spider. Notwithstanding medical treatment, principally
bleeding, the man soon expired.
Desbrest mentions the sting of a bee above the eyebrow followed
by death. Zacutus saw a bee-sting which was followed by gangrene.
Delaistre mentions death from a hornet-sting in the palate.
Nivison relates the case of a farmer of fifty who was stung in
the neck by a bee. The usual swelling and discoloration did not
follow, but notwithstanding vigorous medical treatment the man
died in six days. Thompson relates three cases of bee-sting, in
all of which death supervened within fifteen minutes,--one in a
farmer of fifty-eight who was stung in the neck below the right
ear; a second in an inn-keeper of fifty who was stung in the
neck, and a third of a woman of sixty-four who was stung on the
left brow. "Chirurgus" recalls the details of a case of a
wasp-sting in the middle finger of the right hand of a man of
forty, depriving him of all sense and of muscular power. Ten
minutes after receiving it he was unconscious, his heart-beats
were feeble, and his pulse only perceptible.
Syphilis from a Flea-bite.--Jonathan Hutchinson, in the October,
1895, number of his unique and valuable Archives of Surgery,
reports a primary lesion of most unusual origin.
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