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13 unusual facts about Leprosy


9-Square

Leprosy: The whole body may be used, but you may not touch the ball with the same limb twice in one go.

Abades, Tenerife

Leprosy once was considered a major disease on the island.

Alamut series

The books contain elements of historical fiction, being set in the time of the Crusades and covering events like the Battle of Hattin, and including historical figures such as the leper king of Jerusalem Baldwin IV, the Muslim leader Saladin, and the Hashshashin of Alamut.

Bad Iburg

An interesting feature of the Roman Catholic Church of St. Clemens is the hagioscope, which allowed lepers to view the service from outside.

Baie-Mahault

A leprosarium, or leper's house, was operated by the Soeurs de la Charite and closed in 1954.

Disciplina Clericalis

He asks the king if he may be permitted to sit at the gate and to ask one dinar from every person with a deformity (hunchbacked, one-eyed, leprous, etc.).

Football rivalries in Argentina

The teams nicknames relate from the same incident where Rosario Central refused to play a charity game for a Leprosy charity, hence their nickname Canallas (Scoundrels).

Holywell, County Fermanagh

Templerushin Church at Holywell has a little window in the wall of the church known as the leper window, where those with this illness could look in to observe Mass but could not attend.

L Khengjang

In those days Leprosy patients were not allowed to be kept in the village, fearing that the sickness may spread to another person.

Ngaoubela

The hospital was founded in 1947 by Norwegian missionaries - originally to be used as a station for treatment of Leprosy.

Pilton, Devon

A history of St. Margaret's Leper Hospital at Pilton was written by the genealogist Benjamin Incledon (1730-1796), of Pilton House, whose ancient family had originated at the estate of Incledon, 3 miles north-west of Braunton.

Salur

The Leprosy Mission Salur began in 1906 to help Leprosy patients.

Thief II: The Metal Age

He charms the nobility into taking his "Servants" (vagabonds, beggars, lepers and prostitutes converted into placid slaves via ancient, bizarre enslavement masks salvaged from the destroyed city of Karath-Din) who are equipped with a gas canister.


Bargil Pixner

Pixner was ordained priest in 1946 in Brixen, immediately prior to leaving for missionary work in the Philippines, where he headed a leprosy center in Santa Barbara, Iloilo for the next eight years.

Caritas Pakistan

A Caritas Pakistan team arrived the village of Balakot to assist patients at the Leprosy Centre completely destroyed in the earthquake.

Carville, Louisiana

It is also the location of the National Hansen's Disease Museum, which records the history of the U.S. Public Health Service Hospital there, which for a hundred years treated leprosy (now called Hansen's Disease) patients.

Cornwall Legh

In 1915, she visited Kusatsu at the strong request of a Christian belonging to the Koenkai (Light and salt society), which had been established under the influence of Hannah Riddell who had established the Kaishun Hospital for leprosy patients in Kumamoto.

Death of Slobodan Milošević

Lawyer Zdenko Tomanović told reporters that his client had feared Milošević was being poisoned and cited the aforementioned letter, as well as the medical report two months before his death, according to which Milošević's blood contained rifampicin - a drug that is normally used to treat leprosy and tuberculosis and which would have neutralized some of the effects of Milošević's medicines for his high blood pressure and heart condition.

Diffuse leprosy of Lucio and Latapí

The diffuse leprosy of Lucio and Lapatí, also known as diffuse lepromatous leprosy or "pretty leprosy" is a clinical variety of lepromatous leprosy.

Eugene Kellersberger

Eugene Kellersberger (1888 – 1966), was a leprosy treatment innovator, and a pioneering missionary surgeon in Africa.

Forced Hospitalization at Honmyōji

Around 1930, there occurred the "No Leprosy Patients in Our Prefecture Movement" and the Government intended to hospitalize all leprosy patients in sanatoriums.

Fredrik Rosing Bull

Among other things, he collaborated with Gerhard Armauer Hansen who discovered Mycobacterium leprae the causative agent of leprosy, in the investigation of the effects of leprosy in the eyes.

Helen Roseveare

She built a combination hospital/ training center in Ibambi in the early 1950s, then relocated to in Nebobongo, living in an old leprosy camp, where she built another hospital.

Hiroshi Shima

After becoming an assistant professor at Tokyo Norin Senmon Gakko Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, he developed leprosy and entered Ooshima Seishoen Sanatorium in 1947, and Hoshizuka Keiaien Sanatorium, Kagoshima Prefecture in 1948.

James Penton

One overseer told an assembly: "Woe betide the man that would speak evil against the representatives of God. He may become like Miriam and stricken with leprosy and he might lose his life."

Kikuchi Medical Prison

was a prison in Koshi City, Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan, where criminals with leprosy were imprisoned between 1953 and 1996.

Kilkenny College

Wellesley Bailey, (1846-1937), Founder of the international charity The Leprosy Mission

Luis F. Alvarez

In 1895, Álvarez resigned his position in Waialua to prepare himself for work as Superintendent of a new experimental hospital for the treatment of leprosy which was to be established in Kalihi, a suburb of Honolulu.

Mabel Alvarez

Her father, Luis F. Alvarez, a physician, was involved with the leprosy research begun by the legendary Father Damien.

Marie Adelaide Leprosy Centre

Marie Adelaide Leprosy Centre (MALC) in Karachi, Pakistan is run by Dr. Ruth Pfau, who is also a Roman Catholic religious sister of the Society of Daughters of the Heart of Mary, originally of German descent.

Mary Verghese

Her injuries were managed by Dr. Paul Brand, who subsequently was her mentor and under whom she learnt surgical skills related to leprosy rehabilitation.

No Leprosy Patients in Our Prefecture Movement

Its mission was to systematically eliminate leprosy, (Hansen's disease), a readily transmissable, previously incurable, chronic infectious disease caused by M. leprae, from each prefecture in Japan.

Ooshima Seishoen Sanatorium

Ooshima Seishōen Sanatorium, or National Sanatorium Ooshima Seishōen is a sanatorium for leprosy or ex-leprosy patients, situated in a small island called Ooshima, Takamatsu-shi, Kagawa-ken, Japan which was established in 1909.

Patrick Joseph Twomey

Patrick Joseph Twomey (22 February 1892–1963) was a notable New Zealand marist brother, meter reader and leprosy fund-raiser.

Penikese Island

After being open for 16 years, it was closed in 1921 and the thirteen patients were transferred to the federal leprosy hospital in Carville, Louisiana.

Pfau

Ruth Pfau (born 1929), a German nun and medical doctor dedicated to fighting leprosy in Pakistan

Queen Emma Party

Kapahei “Judge” Kauai Representative from Kauai-Contracted leprosy and was the leader of the leper colony during the Leper War.

Samba Purana

After the customary beginning in Chapter 1, the text consists the narrative of Krishna's son Samba's getting infected by leprosy, after being cursed by his father and consequently getting cured by worshipping Surya in the temple constructed by him in Mitravana on the banks of the Chandrabhaga.

Swainswick

Bladud or Blaiddyd was a mythical king of the Britons, for whose existence there is little historical evidence, but legend holds that he returned to Britain from Athens with leprosy and was imprisoned as a result, but escaped and went into hiding.

Tomishige Rihei

He took photographs of the novelist Natsume Sōseki, Hannah Riddell (who first built Kumamoto's first leprosy hospital), Nogi Maresuke (one of the most famous generals in Japan), Prince Kitashirakawa Yoshihisa (who learned photography under Tomishige), Viscount Kawakami Sōroku, Kodama Gentarō and Lafcadio Hearn (a writer).

United States Waiver of Inadmissibility

This currently includes Class A Tuberculosis, Chancroid, Gonorrhea, Granuloma inguinale, Lymphogranuloma venereum, Syphilis, Leprosy or any other communicable disease as determined by the U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services.

Walter Alvarez

His grandfather was the famed physician Walter C. Alvarez and his great-grandfather, Spanish-born Luis F. Alvarez, worked as a doctor in Hawaii and developed a method for the better diagnosis of macular leprosy.