Honeybee stinging a patient's arm to treat arthritis in Dr. Raymond L. Carey's laboratory, Los Angeles, November 9, 1941

Title: Honeybee stinging a patient's arm to treat arthritis in Dr. Raymond L. Carey's laboratory, Los Angeles, November 9, 1941
Date Created: November 9, 1941
Date: 1941-11-09
Publisher: Los Angeles Daily News
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description: Dr. Raymond L. Carey holds a honeybee with a forceps, allowing it to sting the patient’s forearm. Dr. Carey’s laboratory was one of a half dozen places in the world that used honeybee venom to treat arthritis. One of the causes of arthritis is a lack of oxidation which is stimulated by bee venom.
Caption: Text from original nitrate sleeve: Bees - used for treatment of arthritis by Carey, R.L., Dr.
Handwritten annotation from nitrate negative: Dr RL Carey

Genre: news photographs
cellulose nitrate film
Location: Los Angeles (Calif.)
Resource type: still image
Subjects: Arthritis
Healing--California--Los Angeles
Animals
Science
Bees--California

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
ARK: ark:/21198/zz002800wv
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