Where the constitation of the Chia~ ese excels is in his extraordinary power to resist septic infection. Some of th® instances cited to illustrate this foot ar® almost incredible and are too grucsom® say bow ard boned op with diny rage came to the hospital after " week with horrible bend and showing clear symptoms of lockjsw. They washed his band and sent him home to die. In three days be was about without a sign of lockjaw. A man whose fingers bad been crashed ander a cart some days brought in wilh a Ai fever from patient will be
wound of several days' standing; yet after the woned is cleaned the fever quickly subsides. A woman who bad undergone " serious operation for cancer offered infection and bad a fever of 106 degrees, during which ber husband fed her with bard water chestnuts, Nevertheless, she recovered.
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