Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-05-07
USEFUL CRAWLER.S.
MEDICINES WHICH ARE MANUFAc-
 TuRED FROM VARIOUS BUGS.

The List Includes Coekroaches, Spiders
 Snakes and Bees-AIl Said to be Efica.
 cious and Possess Many yirtues-Homeo.
 paths Favor the Use of Beetles.
 Many people will be surprised to learn that a use has been found for our friend the eockroaeh. For years he has been branded as a pest, and we have dosed him with borax, plaster ot paris and insect powder. Now the ia. bles are turned, and the insect physics LIS. American doctors say that tincture 9f eoekroaeh is good for asthma, and the preparation has been used lately ln England. Anyone wishing to try the remedy can make it by soaking four large eockfoaehes in an ounce of spirit of wine for few days. Twenty drops Of tAis l.quid on a lump of sugar ought t3 charm away the worst attack. Oi course, patients might object to the word eoekroaeh, but the Latin name, Llatta Orientaills. is sufficient to allay the fears of the most particular. Cock roach tea is Q fayorite domestic medi- cine with the working classes in Rus sia. If cockroaches will cure us, there Is no reason why spiders should not be tried also AS matter of fact, they have been used by the homoeopaths for years. Solomon told us we could find spiders even in kings palaces, but now- adays we can trace them in innocent. looking tinctures and sugar pills. Tar. antula pilules is title that should be worth fortune if well advertised, and a tincture prepared from the mygale- the great bird-eating spider of Mexico
 ought certainly to possess equal vir- tues. Our choice, however. is not cone fined to giant spiders.
 The garden spider, with the gold or silver body, so common in the sum. mer, will yield useful preparation- if we may trust to the homoeopa. thic pharmacopeia. A few of these insects rubbed down in 8 mortar with little spirit, will make a moth. CT tincture," from which countleRi dilutions can be prepared. If this will not suffice, the black curacoa spider from West Indian orange groves, or the gray spider of Kentucky, may bs used, according to taste. The homoeo. paths are fond of beetles, and they treat ladybirds in the same way as spiders. They also get an essence from the Colorado beetle-the insect which ruined the potato crops a few years back. It is one thing to rob the bees wholesale and secure their wax and honey, but it is rather hard lines on poor apis mellifica, to turn her into medicine as well. But she has to go in with the rest, and yield her life in the cause of science. Of course, anyone who has felt a bees sting knows what a powerful drug it's poison must be. It's rather dangerous work robbing hive of bees of their stings and poison. The method recommended in books is simple, but exciting. The bees are to be caught in a bottle as they leave their home in the morning. They are then deprived of their poison bags and stings by means of scissors, and tho severed portions are soaked in spirit to make tincture.
 Besides insects, other queer things are used 1T. medicine at the present time. To give only two examples, rem- edies are prepared from the starfsh and the crayfsh. Snake yenom--no- tably that of the cobra, the rattlesnake and the adder-is sometimes used. Nowadays a great many drugs Of anl- nal origin are being experimented with, and some people prophecy that they will eventually ousl all the rest.