There are also three varieties of psoriasis, namely, white, black and red.
Elephantiasis is the leprosy found in modern times in Syria, Greece, Spain, Norway and Africa.
Now, since Lev. In fact, the law deals with the initial symptoms rather than with the ultimate phases of the fully developed disease. Elephantiasis was a common disease in our Saviour's time, and has been ever since, and would hardly be called leprosy now, if it had not been popularly so called then. It is hereditary for generations, though modern medical authorities hold that it is not contagious. However, the returning Crusaders spread it all over Europe in the tenth and eleventh centuries, so that according to Matthew Paris there was no less than nine thousand hospitals set apart for its victims.