Word: leprous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hail to able Pathologist & Bacteriologist Charles Warren Duval and to others who grew organisms from leprous tissues. Nonetheless, there has been valid doubt that they isolated and actually reproduced the leprosy bacillus which very closely resembles the tuberculosis bacillus...
Paris was the city of the world; Paris was the capital of France; Paris was a dull and dowdy city. The Sun King looked on the leprous walls and shuddered; he would build a new and sparkling place, a bright and spangled royal home. So he called to him Mansard and the world came to know of gabled roofs, and he called to him Colbert and France was stirred by her first fear of the Bourbonic plague. Versailles was piled high and the long hedges moved out around the fountains. Colbert shook his head and brought out great books...
...cases are at large: 4) the germ of leprosy closely resembles the germ of tuberculosis; 5) leprosy is not especially communicable, far less so than syphilis; 6) cleanliness and general hygiene prevent leprosy's spread; 7) lepers' children are not born leprous, but catch the disease when very young, and hence the desirability of providing for these untainted ones; 8) leprosy is being cured; 9) money is needed to hasten cures, to further research, and to care for segregated lepers; 10) the Leonard Wood Memorial for the Eradication of Leprosy (Perry Burgess, president), which organized last week...