TY - JOUR
KW - Croatia
KW - Famous Persons
KW - History, 18th Century
KW - History, Medieval
KW - Humans
KW - leprosy
KW - Male
KW - Medicine in the Arts
KW - Paintings
KW - Religion and Medicine
KW - Saints
KW - Semantics
AU - Fatovic-Ferencic S
AU - Buklijas T
AB - <p>This is a brief study on the popular ideas about leprosy based on an 18th century wall painting in north-western Croatia portraying Saint Elisabeth healing a sick man, possibly a leper. The analysis uses examples from the history of medicine, semantics, toponymy and iconography.</p>
BT - Journal of the European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology : JEADV
C1 - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12428835?dopt=Abstract
DA - 2002 Sep
IS - 5
J2 - J Eur Acad Dermatol Venereol
LA - eng
N2 - <p>This is a brief study on the popular ideas about leprosy based on an 18th century wall painting in north-western Croatia portraying Saint Elisabeth healing a sick man, possibly a leper. The analysis uses examples from the history of medicine, semantics, toponymy and iconography.</p>
PY - 2002
SP - 447
EP - 9
T2 - Journal of the European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology : JEADV
TI - The image of a leper (?): a paradigm of hidden fears of contagious diseases (exemplified in a wall painting of Saint Elizabeth of Hungary).
VL - 16
SN - 0926-9959
ER -