The Edward T. LeBlanc Memorial Dime Novel Bibliography

Item - The Movement Cure for Rheumatism

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Series: New York Weekly v. 33 no. 46 — page 8
Subject / Tag: Sketch
Part of: New York Weekly, v. XXXIII, no. 46, September 30, 1878 (Issue)
Author: Burdette, Robert J. (Robert Jones), 1844-1914
Date: September 30, 1878
First Sentence: One day, not a great while ago, Mr. Middlerib, who is a constant reader of the New York Weekly, read in his favorite paper a paragraph copied from the Praeger Landwirthschafliches Wochenblatt, a German paper, which is an accepted authority on such points, stating that the sting of a bee was a sure cure for rheumatism, and citing several remarkable instances in which people had been perfectly cured by this abrupt remedy.
Last Sentence: But the cure was not permanent, and Mr. Middlerib doos not like to talk about it.

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