From the Chicago Tribune, Friday, June 14, Obituary column (AP):
 
Dr. Mary Loveless; pioneered shots against bee, wasp stings.
 
WESTPORT, Conn. (AP) -- Dr. Mary Hewitt Loveless, who pioneered an
injection to prevent shock from bee and wasp stings, died June 2 at age
92.  Dr. Loveless was a 1925 graduate of the Stanford University Medical
School.  She worked as a physician in San Francisco before becoming a
research fellow at the Roosevelt Hospital Allergy Clinic in New York
City in 1934.  In 1938, she joined the New York Hospital-Cornell
University Medical Center as associate professor of clinical medicine.
She retired from teaching in 1964 and continued her private practice in
Westport.  She was an early leader in venom immunology in the 1940s.
While other researchers were grinding entire bees and other singing
insects, she focused on the venom sacs.  Dr. Loveless dissected the sacs
from bees and wasps, ground them and injected her patients with the
venom.  The patients built up a tolerance and received an annual shot to
maintain their immunity.  Initially, her methods were questioned by many
physicians as too dangerous, but in 1979 the Federal Food and Drug
Administration approved a venom immunization against bee stings.  Dr.
Loveless also discovered blocking antibodies for sufferers of pollen
allergies and hay fever.
 
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