Venom Claimed to Cure Arthritis

Pete Lemley’s Cure for Arthritis
South Dakota Magazine (USA)

Katie wrote a post yesterday about Pete Lemley, the old Badlands rancher who built the dinosaur that stands between Scenic and Rapid City.

When Pete was himself a dinosaur, he suffered greatly from arthritis. One day, while shutting a gate, a bumblebee stung his arthritic knuckles. They swelled for a day, but in the morning the swelling was down and the arthritis was gone. Convinced that the bee venom had cured him, Pete scraped the flesh on his arm and applied bee’s venom over a two-month period. He never complained about arthritis again, according to his daughter, Maggie Warren, in her book titled “The Badlands Fox.”