HLTB21H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 14: Macrophage, Tuberculoid Leprosy, Dapsone
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Chapter 14: leprosy the striking hand of god. Leprosy is considered as the disease of the soul and is very contagious. Leprosy arose in the far east about 1400 bc. It has been said the leprosy was brought from india to greece from soldiers of alexander the. Association of the disease with sinfulness stigmatized the leper, people thought that everyone who had leprosy always wanted to have sex and do dirty things. Leprosy became accepted as divine punishment for the sins of flesh. Lazar houses were open and lepers were sent there away from the rest of society. The pandemic of leprosy reached epidemic in the 12th century and the peak hit in europe in the. 13th and 14th centuries: however, by the 16th century leprosy had seen to have died on and the leper houses closed down , and by the 18th it had seen to have disappeared.
