Assertion: leprosy | /r/HasProperty | hereditary disease
Facets:
value: for a long time
type: TEMPORAL
Source sentences:
text: His work, which compiled data from all corners of the British Empire, agreed with Danielssen that leprosy was a hereditary disease.
text: Doctors during this time still mistakenly believed that leprosy was a hereditary disease.
text: The discovery of a bacterial cause was a major departure from the belief that leprosy was a hereditary disease, a punishment from God or a result of miasma (the prevailing belief prior to germ-theory—that disease was a result of poisonous or rotten organic matter in bad air).
text: For a long time leprosy was thought to be a hereditary disease, a curse, or a punishment from God.
text: In 1873, Dr. Hansen discovered bacteria in leprosy lesions, which rule out that leprosy is a hereditary disease not a punishment from the gods.
text: Doctors during this time still mistakenly believed that leprosy was a hereditary disease.
text: For a long time leprosy was thought to be a hereditary disease, a curse, or a punishment from God.
text: It is also known as Hansen’s disease, named after Norwegian physician, Gerhard Henrik Armauer Hansen, who debunked the prevailing notion of the time that leprosy was a hereditary disease.