insusceptible

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It has recently been claimed that pigs are insusceptible, but I have known of many instances in which the offal of anthrax cattle, when devoured by pigs, has determined fatal anthrax in the latter.

From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various

One-thousandth of a drop of virulent anthrax blood invariably killed the guinea-pig, while it left the rabbit unharmed.2 Klein has never found a rabbit insusceptible.

From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various

Life itself is insusceptible of any definition which satisfies, but we know that we live, nevertheless.

From A Little Book for Christmas by Brady, Cyrus Townsend

It is insusceptible of rust, as gold and silver are, none of the acids affecting it, excepting the aqua regia.

From Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 1 by Randolph, Thomas Jefferson

Against this claim, Grotius attempted to shew that the sea was, from its nature, insusceptible of exclusive right; and that, if it were susceptible of it, England did not prove her title to it.

From The Life of Hugo Grotius With Brief Minutes of the Civil, Ecclesiastical, and Literary History of the Netherlands by Butler, Charles