As old as humankind and long before the plague, AIDS or COVID, outbreaks of leprosy have affected, and panicked, people on every continent. The clapper in the hand of a leper was used to warn travellers of the oncoming presence of one afflicted with leprosy. Whether called “Hansen’s disease” or the “punishment of God,” leprosy was once one of the horrors of mankind and in some countries of the world it still is.
BT - Curiosities in Medicine DO - 10.1007/978-3-031-14002-0_50 LA - Eng N2 -As old as humankind and long before the plague, AIDS or COVID, outbreaks of leprosy have affected, and panicked, people on every continent. The clapper in the hand of a leper was used to warn travellers of the oncoming presence of one afflicted with leprosy. Whether called “Hansen’s disease” or the “punishment of God,” leprosy was once one of the horrors of mankind and in some countries of the world it still is.
PB - Springer International Publishing PY - 2022 SN - 9783031140013 SP - 185 EP - 187 T2 - Curiosities in Medicine TI - Leprosy. “The Punishment of God”? ER -