“While patients with tuberculoid leprosy have only a few organisms, those with lepromatous leprosy have abundant bacteria.”

“They prefer their disease to be called Hansen's disease not leprosy, and the disease can be easily cured.”

“Cures using herbs for diseases such as fever, jaundice, dropsy and leprosy are enumerated.”

“Francis went to treat the leper and greeted him with a sign of peace.”

“For the eleven years that Annalise had lived in Lawrenceville, she had always been considered a social leper.”

“Lepers were separated in leper hospitals built with private charity because people were afraid of defilement.”

“Pressed to choose the most challenging and rewarding location, he cites the San Pablo leprosarium in the middle of the Amazon.”

“The monastery functioned as a leprosarium and Juliana served there as a canoness until ousted during a conflict with townspeople.”

“Mont-Cornillon was the site of a leprosarium and monastery under the Rule of Saint Augustine, just outside the city walls of Liege.”

“He touched lepers, forgave sinners, blessed the poor and consorted with tax collectors.”

“The blind could see, the lame could walk, lepers were cleansed, the deaf could hear, the dead had been raised, and the poor had good news.”

“Now leprosariums have been built to help lepers to live normal lives with other able-bodied people.”