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          APIS MELLIFICA;

                OR,

    THE POISON OF THE HONEY-BEE,

 Considered as a Therapeutic Agent.


        BY C. W. WOLF, M.D.,

  Ex-District Physician in Berlin.


           PHILADELPHIA:
     PUBLISHED AND FOR SALE BY
  WILLIAM RADDE, 635 ARCH STREET.
               1858.




Transcriber's Note:

    Minor typographical errors have been corrected without note.
    Inconsistent hyphenation has been standardised, whilst variant and
    archaic spellings remain as printed. The oe ligature is represented
    by [oe].




PREFACE.


Every physician who has spent years of an active life in prescribing for
large numbers of patients, is morally bound to publish his experience to
the world, provided he is satisfied, in his interior