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.