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Leprosy - Patients

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  • A queen or empress administering a healing balm to a person with leprosy (?). Photograph of a wallpainting in the chapel in Eton College.
  • Poor Henry consults a doctor in Salerno about his leprosy: they sit opposite each other in the doctor's study while the doctor explains his remedy. Aquatint by F. Hegi, 1810.
  • The Lock Hospital, Southwark: the chapel, and below, a detail of the plaque over the door. Etching after Whichelo, 1813.
  • A man with leprosy in Prapatoom (?). Watercolour by Edith M Hinchley, 1905.
  • Dichpali, Hyderabad: Dr Isabel Kerr vaccinating a child in the leprosy hospital. Photograph by G.M. Kerr, 1926.
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    People scrambling to get away from a person with leprosy. Watercolour by R. Cooper.

    Cooper, Richard Tennant, 1885-1957. | Reference: 24007i
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    The James M. Patton Leper Village, Chiengmai Leper Asylum, Thailand: Thai royalty and politicians stand at the entrance with asylum doctors; patients are seated. Photograph, 1921.

    | Date: 1921 | Reference: 567828i
    Part of: Chiengmai Leper Asylum, Thailand: Annual Report.
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    An Icelandic woman with leprosy. Coloured engraving by C. Annedouche after L. Bévalet.

    Bévalet, Louis Victor, 1808-1878. | Date: 1838 | Reference: 5417i
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    Chapel Great Ilford, Leper Hospital, Essex: interior of chapel. Line engraving by W. Wise, 1816, after R.B. Schnebbelie.

    Schnebbelie, Robert Blemmel, -approximately 1849. | Date: 11 October 1816 | Reference: 18106i
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    Chiengmai Leper Asylum, Thailand: children outside the grass-roofed temporary school for uninfected children of leprosy patients. Photograph, 1921.

    | Date: 1921 | Reference: 567838i
    Part of: Chiengmai Leper Asylum, Thailand: Annual Report.
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