The health of the patient underwent remarkable improvement immediately after the operation.
Serious Insect-stings .-- Although in this country the stings of insects are seldom productive of serious consequences, in the tropic climates death not unfrequently results from them.

Wounds inflicted by large spiders, centipedes, tarantulae, and scorpions have proved fatal.

Even in our country deaths, preceded by gangrene, have sometimes followed the bite of a mosquito or a bee, the location of the bite and the idiosyncrasy of the individual probably influencing the fatal issue.

In some cases, possibly, some vegetable poison is introduced with the sting.

Hulse, U.S.N., reports the case of a man who was bitten on the penis by a spider, and who subsequently exhibited violent symptoms simulating spinal meningitis, but ultimately recovered.