Word: leprously
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...palace, where President Quezon continued to be "in conference," the leprous demonstrators orated, presented a petition: "Doctors say leprosy is not contagious. Let us go home! We want our wives and husbands and children. LET us GO HOME. Besides, we want to be paid while we are in the hospital. LET US GO HOME...
...Vigorous, informative, complacent, he discourses with equal animation on the history and treatment of leprosy, on his experiences in swimming in shark-infested waters, his friendship with the Prince of Wales, his meeting with King Humbert of Italy his kind trickery in disposing of 26 healtny children born of leprous parents...
...leprous residents on the island of Molokai, and as one of the two physicians on leeward Molokai, I would like to clarify and correct the wrong impressions held by most people on the mainland, which were. no doubt, strengthened after reading your otherwise excellent article on Father Damien. The general impression seems to be that Molokai is inhabited solely, or, at least, largely by lepers...
...Government's leprosarium at Carville, La., went American Legion National Commander Frank Nicholas Belgrano Jr. to address the 28 leprous members of the Legion's Carville Post...
...After Paraguay became an independent nation, the Spanish family of Lopez took it over and willfully plunged it into the "heroic" war of 1864-70, reducing Paraguay's population from 1,337,000 to only 221,000, of whom 28,000 were men. Dyspeptic, diar-rehic, goitred and leprous, the Indians had multiplied to 800,000 by 1932, living chiefly on maize and mandioca bread, exporting yerba maté tea, tinned meat and tannin from the Gran Chaco's quebracho tree...