A chronic granulomatous infection caused by MYCOBACTERIUM LEPRAE. The granulomatous lesions are manifested in the skin, the mucous membranes, and the peripheral nerves. Two polar or principal types are lepromatous and tuberculoid.
    

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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.

Victims of leprosy. Glass positive, ca. 1919.

Alepol brand sodium hydnocarpate / Burroughs Wellcome & Co. (The Wellcome Foundation Ltd.).

Leprosy in its clinical & pathological aspects / by G. Armauer Hansen and Carl Looft ; translated by Norman Walker.

A woman behind a health facility counter displaying anti-tuberculosis drugs with tuberculosis and leprosy posters behind: tuberculosis and leprosy prevention in Kenya. Lithograph by Ministry of Public Health and Sanitation, 2009.

Leprosy in India : a report / by T.R. Lewis and D.D. Cunningham.

The leper hospitals of Northampton / by R.M. Serjeantson.

A lepra e os erros de diagnostico / pelo Jose' Maria Gomes.

Diethyl dithiolisophthalate in the treatment of leprosy (ETIP or "Etisul") : a progress report / T.F. Davey and L.M. Hogerzeil.

Anthologie : la lèpre à travers les siècles et les contrées / par le D Démétrius Al. Zambaco Pacha (de Byzance).

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Leprosy in India : a report / by T.R. Lewis and D.D. Cunningham.

The leper hospitals of Northampton / by R.M. Serjeantson.

A lepra e os erros de diagnostico / pelo Jose' Maria Gomes.

Diethyl dithiolisophthalate in the treatment of leprosy (ETIP or "Etisul") : a progress report / T.F. Davey and L.M. Hogerzeil.

Anthologie : la lèpre à travers les siècles et les contrées / par le D Démétrius Al. Zambaco Pacha (de Byzance).