HLTB15H3 Lecture Notes - Laminin, Leper Colony, Immune Tolerance
6 Nov 2012
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In the old testament, job was depicted as covered with black spots. In both the old and in the new testament, leprosy has contributed fear of the sores as well as the notion that is blemished is unclean and is also displeasing to god because it is defiled (dishonoured). Christ"s curing the lepers became a metaphor for divine salvation. Leprosy is a disease of the soul and one that was highly contagious. Leprosy arose in the far east about 1400bc (proof of leprosy in the hindu writings of. The earliest t account for leprosy occurred and was written in the indian text between 600 and 400 bc. Nei chang, a textbook of medicine described a disease where the patient had stiff joints, the facial hair would hall off and flesh becomes more nodular and the nose changes color and rots. This book was written between 250 and 230bc.
