Another word for leprosy

leprosy Synonyms

leprosy

leprous infection, leprous inflammation, nerve paralysis, lepra; see disease.

Terms for leprous diseases include: elephantiasis, joint-evil, black leprosy, dry leprosy, nontuberculated lepra, lepra cutanea, lepra nervosum (both Latin).

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He succumbed to leprosy on the 15th of April 1889.
In the reign of Jehoram, Naaman, the Syrian general, came and was cleansed by the prophet Elisha of leprosy (2 Kings v.).
There is a modern asylum for leprosy at Laugarnes near Reykjavik, and a medical school at Reykjavik, opened in 1876.
Epidemics of smallpox and typhoid occur; and leprosy, imported from the Orange River and Cape Colonies, has taken firm hold on the Basuto, of whom about 9r per too() are sufferers from this disease.
On the other hand, inheritance was dismissed, or survived only as a "susceptibility," in the cases of tubercle, leprosy and some other maladies now recognized as infectious; while in others, as in syphilis, it was seen to consist in a translation of the infectious element from parent to offspring.

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