Word: leper
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Joseph's Dream and Moses The Lawgiver; on Good Friday, on the Mount of Olives Gethsemane; at Bethlehem, in the Church of the Nativity, on Easter Saturday, The Prince oj Peace; on the Mount of Olives, on Easter, The Great Commission of Christ; in Samaria, Noaman the Leper: at Damascus, Paul's Heavenly Vision; etc., 16 addresses...
Further impetus was given, last week, to Governor General Leonard Wood's plea for $1,000,000 for the leper colony on the Island of Culion, the Philippines...
Compulsory segregation does not, however, in actual practice always kill leprosy, for two reasons: 1) lepers hide themselves at home; 2) the disease has an extraordinarily long incubation period?sometimes 15 or 20 years?during which time the incipient leper may be infecting others...
Leprosaria are no longer houses of doom and gloom. The leper has a chance of recovery...
John R. Early, leper, famous for 15 years for his vicissitudes in and out of confinement, broke quarantine for the fourth time, escaping from the Federal leprosarium at Carville, La. For three weeks he visited friends in the South and Middle West, then returned to his old home at Washington and surrendered to the District health authorities. The case of Early is a living tragedy, for he has been the subject of hot dispute among specialists, and has frequently been championed by Dr. L. Duncan Bulkley, of the New York Skin and Cancer Hospital. His disease has not progressed, apparently...