HIDDEN HISTORIES
May 14, 2020
2 minutes
Leper hospitals had visitors – a far cry from modern clinical isolation
In the three centuries after 1000 AD, a terrible disease took hold in Europe. Across the British Isles hundreds of hospitals of various sizes were built to house those afflicted by it. During the medieval period this dreaded condition was known as lepra. We know it today as leprosy, although modern doctors prefer to use its
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