Caused by the bacillus Mycobacterium leprae

Usage examples of leprosy.

It was while he had been staying at Winchester that he had heard from the almoner there how people contracted leprosy.

The Japanese beetle, the citrous scale, the chestnut blight, and the elm borer spread to every corner of the world, and from one forgotten pesthole in Borneo, leprosy, long imagined extinct, reappeared.

Seeing that these splendors fascinated him, but their inaccessibility saddened him, I thought it was good to convince him that his suffering was not the worst, to tell him of the torment of Andronicus with such details that they far surpassed what had been done to him, of the massacres of Crema, of prisoners with a hand, an ear, the nose cut off, I brought before his eyes images of indescribable maladies compared to which leprosy was the lesser evil, I told him how horrendously horrible were scrofula, erysipelas, St.

Nation in the difficult task of reconstruction, and of the new departure, looming up before it, with newer and broader and better political issues upon which all Patriot might safely divide, while all the old issues of Statesrights, Secession, Free-Trade, and Slavery, and all the mental and moral leprosy growing out of them, should lie buried far out of sight as deadand-gone relics of the cruel and devastating War which they alone had brought on!

The leprosy dissolved into a misshapen worm, a vulture, a poisonous toad, a sow bug, a patch of spleenwort, and then a happy laughing little boy who was torturing a gecko.

The people would seem so free of diseases as to be miraculously healthy: no trachoma or leprosy, plague or cholera, those common scourges of primitive times.

London, and Calcutta, to develop vaccines for polio, smallpox, malaria, typhoid, yellow fever, tuberculosis, influenza, and leprosy.

Self-control is manhood and I felt toward Rait as I would toward a corpse of some one who had died of leprosy.

A hundred years before I was born, the bacteriologists discovered the germ of leprosy.

Or some fool who smirks and calls him a converso as if it were a form of leprosy.

And sand flies that can trigger Leishmaniasis, a leprosy type of disease.

Three-drug therapy can cure even the worst cases of lepromatous leprosy.

Metz could hint that Mariah has leprosy, schizophrenia, or this Munchausen by Proxy--anything, just so long as it makes Rothbottam sit back and reconsider.

But it sometimes happens that those who are already ordained as priests incur defects whereby they are hindered from celebrating, such as leprosy or epilepsy, or the like.

Lord gave sight to many blind men at various times, and strength to many infirm, thereby showing, in these different men, that the same sins are repeatedly forgiven, at one time healing a man from leprosy and afterwards from blindness.