Crossword-Solution: INSUSCEPTIBILITY 16 letters, 3 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 25

That I have since thought proper to write the tale in the narrative and not the dramatic form, is not because of any insusceptibility of the material to such uses.

Thus certain forms of blindness or insanity are due primarily to gonorrheal or syphilitic infection, insusceptibility to which is rare or unknown.

The fact that the bacillus finds a lodgment in so many individual tissues shows that it is not insusceptibility that makes the difference {352} between people, since we are all susceptible, but it is the lack of resistive vitality, and that most of us have, under ordinary circumstances, and all of us can have under favorable conditions, quite sufficient immunizing power to prevent serious developments.

Thus animals may prove refractory to a small dose of the poison of anthrax, yet Chauveau has shown that this virus will overcome all native or acquired insusceptibility when administered in excess.

Sometimes only one or two solitary cases of the affection are observed; at other times the disease becomes moderately prevalent, but a lack of virulence in the poison or a previously acquired insusceptibility of the individual protects the great majority of the animals exposed, while at others, still, the poison attacks nearly all exposed to its contagion.