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Some individuals are refractory to vaccination, but complete insusceptibility is exceedingly rare.

From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various

That I have since thought proper to write the tale in the narrative and not the dramatic form, is not because of any insusceptibility of the material to such uses.

From Graham's Magazine Vol XXXIII No. 5 November 1848 by Various

The insusceptibility to anthrax is often characteristic of certain individuals or families or of the animals living in a particular district.

From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various

Thus animals may prove refractory to a small dose of the poison of anthrax, yet Chauveau has shown that this virus will overcome all native or acquired insusceptibility when administered in excess.

From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various

Yet it is not untrue to say that variations in children, dependent upon heredity, show chiefly in the relative susceptibility or insusceptibility of the child to the influences of environment and management.

From The Nervous Child by Cameron, Hector Charles