NPR illustrated an article about the plague with a... ...hat the picture was actually depicting victims of leprosy . So they replaced the image. Well, the second ima...
https://www.neatorama.com/2017/08/21/Iconic-Plague-Images-Are-Often-Not-What-They-Seem/Kate Marsden was a medical adventurer and advocate... ...War in 1877, she first encountered the horrors of leprosy and became obsessed with finding a treatment. A d... ...and desolate area used for exile (which included leprosy sufferers). There was not yet a Transiberian Rail... ...icular medicinal herb that...
https://www.neatorama.com/2017/05/27/The-Scandalous-Life-of-Nurse-and-Adventurer-Kate-Marsden/Father Damien was a Belgian Catholic priest who we... ...colony in 1873. He served there until he died -of leprosy - in 1889. Father Damien became Saint Damien of Mo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/09/22/Investigating-Father-Damiens-Miracle/
