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Show Fever-Proof People. Next to consumption, the disease which kills most of the world's inhabitants inhabi-tants is malaria. In every hot country in the world, from Italy to India and Australia to America, the deadly swamp germs poison men's blood and kill them by hundreds and thousands. Many different shapes does malaria take, and, except the low races of blacks who inhabit the steamy swamps few are exempt from Its deadly influence. influ-ence. Yet now it is known that there are a few white men on whom these poison germs have no effect whatso-iver. whatso-iver. They never suffer from ague or chills or fever. Some of these have gained immunity in the same way that vaccination saves one from smallpox. But the curious fact remains that others oth-ers are from birth absolutely fever proof. No reason can be assigned for this; It is still one of the many mysteries mys-teries of medicine. |