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IT does not seem to be generally appreciated that the irritating wheals which may follow the bites of various insects are anaphylactic in origin. The first time that a person is bitten by a species of insect which has never bitten him before, nothing or next to nothing may happen, but when he has become sensitive to the proteid in the liquid which the insect injects in the process of biting, he develops the local irritable swelling which is familiar to most people.
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BOYCOTT, A. The Reaction to Flea Bites. Nature 118, 591 (1926). https://doi.org/10.1038/118591a0
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