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THIS very ancient custom, performed in so many ways, and still practised by all barbarous and semi-barbarous peoples, might, by the help of modern science, be turned to useful and beneficent ends. For some time I have thought, and the conviction grows on me, that residents and travellers in tropical parts of the world might the better withstand the climate, malaria and fevers to which they often succumb, by entering into blood-brotherhood with a healthy native.
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PATTERSON, T. Blood-Brotherhood. Nature 53, 604–605 (1896). https://doi.org/10.1038/053604d0
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