insusceptible

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The same advantage in a greater degree is obtained by vaccination, even in the exceptional instances in which it fails to render the person altogether insusceptible to the disease.

From The Mother's Manual of Children's Diseases by West, Charles

One is, to use non-humanized lymph, since the lower animals are insusceptible to syphilis.1 This is simple.

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

But the expression "all Indians," besides being insusceptible of methodical classification, involves hearsay, which is not the kind of authority desired in a serious study.

From Sign Language Among North American Indians Compared With That Among Other Peoples And Deaf-Mutes First Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1879-1880, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1881, pages 263-552 by Mallery, Garrick

Her tone set aside the subject as insusceptible of sufficient or satisfactory answer.

From Success A Novel by Adams, Samuel Hopkins