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IN connection with this subject (see NATURE, vol. lv. p. 533, ot alibi), it may be interesting to quote the following passage from “An Account of a Journey to Leetakoo,” performed by a Dutchman, named Truter, in 1801 (appended to Sir John Barrow's “Voyage to Cochin China” (London, 1806), wherein the passage occurs on p. 382): “It was remarked that … the sting of a scorpion, which to Europeans and colonists is always attended with dangerous consequences, … has no ill effect on this people [the Bosjesmans], which they endeavoured to explain by saying that while children being accustomed to be stung by these insects, the poison in time ceases to have any effect on them, as the small-pox-virus loses its action on a person who has had the disease.”
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MINAKATA, K. Acquired Immunity from Insect Stings. Nature 56, 589 (1897). https://doi.org/10.1038/056589a0
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