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.