Note 163 — Chapter IV
Hugh J. C. Beavan translation
“The smallest admixture of Negro blood, even though the subject be brought from a more northerly state, seems to be a potent antidote against the morbid poison.”—Nott, Southern Journal of Medicine, February, 1847. “The coloured people resisted the epidemic influence better than the whites; and, I believe I may hazard the observation, that their degree in resistance was in proportion to the admixture of white blood.”—Bryant, American Journal, April, 1856, p. 301. Compare Hirsch, Handbuch, § 36.