Guy of Lusignan and Raymond of Tripoli were dueling regents for a king suffering from this disease.
Guy of Lusignan and Raymond of Tripoli were dueling regents for a king suffering from this disease. A diet richer in vitamin C and competition from pulmonary tuberculosis have been posited as reasons for its decline. William McNeill has linked people wearing more woolen clothes to the disappearance of the spirochete yaws, which has symptoms very similar to and may have been mistaken for this disease. Michel Foucault begins Madness and Civilization describing its disappearance from Europe and the refitting of hospitals like Saint-Lazare. Damien de Veuster worked with sufferers of this disease on the island Molokai, where they were quarantined by the Hawaiian government. For 10 points, name this ailment whose modern version is also called Hansen's disease.
Guy of Lusignan and Raymond of Tripoli were dueling regents for a king suffering from this disease.
{leprosy} (or {leprosaria}; or {Hansen}'s disease before mentioned)