Title: Leprosy in premodern medicine
Description: While premodern poets and preachers viewed leprosy as a "disease of the soul," physicians in the period understood it to be a "cancer of the whole body." In this innovative study, medical historian Luke Demaitre explores medical and social perspectives on leprosy at a time when judicious diagnosis could spare healthy people from social ostracization and help the afflicted get a license to beg.
Subjects: History, 17th Century, History, Early Modern 1451-1600, History, Medieval History, Leprosy, History, modern, 17th century, Europe, history