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PROF. E. A. BOYCOTT, in NATURE of October 23, says: “Some persons who are extensively flea bitten seem to become immune”. This is, in my case, true of other insect bites. In January 1885 I suffered the most terrible agony from bites of Australian sand-flies (I do not know the specific name). Some seven years afterwards I was again in a sand-fly-infested neighbourhood and was completely immune from effects, and was so ever since.
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ROBSON, E. The Reaction to Flea Bites. Nature 118, 843 (1926). https://doi.org/10.1038/118843e0
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