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the Calcutta Zoological Gardens and who gave demonstrations 
of his remarkable endowment before Dr. D. D. Cunningham, 
almost miraculous power by saying that it is either the result 
of innate idiosyncratic peculiarity in the former’s constitution 
corresponding development of its antitoxin. 
ut the almost marvellous power exhibited by the Yogi, 
rt. D. D. Cunningham says :— 
‘*A Yogi in the Mirzapur district was famed for his in- 
susceptibility to the stings of scorpions. On the offer of a very 
some remuneration, he came down to Calcutta and was 
was to show that he really was from one or other cause 
practically insusceptible to the action of the virus ; for he 
allowed several large, lively scorpions to fix their stings so 
Ptiments have shown how easy it is to establish a relative and 
‘tmulative immunity to the action of snake-venoms by means 
of their repeated inoculation, beginning with sublethal doses 
and gradually working upwards from them; and a more homely 
‘ample of like nature must be familiar to all who have ever 
lived for long in a region infested by mosquitoes. All who 
rem 
an 
Course of years, and after the occurrence of innumerable 
Noculations, mosquitoes would have been regarded with con- 
'emptuous indifference had it not been for their persistently 
