Syrian captain Naaman, who came to be healed of his leprosy by the prophet Elijah.
Although the hideous sight and loathsome smell of leprosy had always filled him with unconquerable disgust, he gladly ministered to the lepers, in the hope that, by so doing, he might impart to them the infinite consolations of the Cross.
From what I could learn I had but one objection to it as a desirable place to live--leprosy is too prevalent.
In that age there were at least seven varieties of eruptions which could hardly, if at all, be distinguished, in their early stages, from leprosy, and it was left to Moses to say whether or not Miriam had been attacked by true leprosy or not.
Leprosy was very prevalent, so much so that in Egypt the Jews were called a nation of lepers.
With the first shipload of Chinese brought to these Islands came two lepers "white as snow," having, that is to say, a disease very different from that which now is called leprosy here.
The leprosy of the Islands is a disease of the blood, and not a skin disease.
In short, there is no more risk of a white resident or traveler catching leprosy in the Hawaiian Islands than in the city or State of New York.
But lately it is asserted that the Chinese have brought or will bring the leprosy hither.
Leprosy may be interpreted as any veil that interveneth between man and the recognition of the Lord, his God.
Through Him the leper recovered from the leprosy of perversity and ignorance.
And therefore it helpeth against leprosy and meselry.
Mankind has always felt a deep interest in certain diseases, to which we are even now subject, and so parts of the chapters on leprosy and hydrophobia have been reproduced.
The tokens of leprosy be most seen in the utter parts, as in the feet, legs, and face; and namely in wasting and minishing of the brawns of the body.
Of course, leprosy is leprosy, and it is a terrible thing; but so much that is lurid has been written about Molokai that neither the lepers, nor those who devote their lives to them, have received a fair deal.
In the old days, before the discovery of the leprosy bacillus, a small number of men and women, suffering from various and wholly different diseases, were adjudged lepers and sent to Molokai.
The chief horror ofleprosy obtains in the minds of those who have never seen a leper and who do not know anything about the disease.
And by the same means leprosy is even now decreasing in the Hawaiian Islands.
The old horrors of leprosy go back to the conditions that obtained before the days of antiseptic surgery, and before the time when physicians like Dr.
An Austrian physician has inoculated himself and his assistants with leprosy and failed to catch it.
It is this trick of leprosylying dormant in the body for indeterminate periods that is responsible for many alleged cures.
As regards the fear of leprosy itself, nowhere in the Settlement among lepers, or non-lepers, did I see any sign of it.
But leprosy itself still remains the same awful and profound mystery.
Leprosy is terrible, there is no getting away from that; but from what little I know of the disease and its degree of contagiousness, I would by far prefer to spend the rest of my days in Molokai than in any tuberculosis sanatorium.
Leprosy was unknown in Europe until it was introduced by the returning Crusaders, whereupon it spread slowly until it had seized upon large numbers of the people.
Some time after inoculation, leprosy made its appearance, and the man died a leper on Molokai.
Also, remember that diseases such as elephantiasis and leprosy do not seem to be caught by contact.
Here we have a family of note bearing the name of Leper, derived no doubt from the leprosy of an ancestor.
We begin our inquiry into the nature of the disease, by considering the characters of the leprosy as it was seen prevailing, almost epidemically, in the middle ages.
I shall close these remarks by alluding to one other reputed case of leprosy in a descendant of the royal families of Scotland.
The modern history of tubercular leprosy would seem to show that the disease attacks the male in a larger proportion than the female sex.
At the present day tubercular leprosy is still regarded as a disease which sets at defiance all the powers of the medical art.
The leprosy is cured by a miracle at the tomb of S.
I am not by any means sufficiently intimate with the literature of the Scandinavian radesyge, to venture to offer any decided opinion with regard to its nosological nature, and its alleged relation to the leprosy of the middle ages.
The case of King Robert the Bruce is a more recent and a more authenticated instance of leprosy in the royal family of Scotland.
The book contains the first description of leprosy written by a European.
The laws which deprived lepers of marital rights and of heirship appear to have been wholly foreign; in England, leprosy as a bar to succession was made a plea in the law courts.
Men sometimes took advantage of a charge of leprosy to injure an enemy.
Like their neighbours of Tahiti, from whom they have perhaps imbibed the error, they regard leprosywith comparative indifference, elephantiasis with disproportionate fear.
Leprosy in particular they cannot be persuaded to avoid.
And when he had spoken, immediately the leprosy departed from him: and he was made clean.
Constantine's leprosyhealed by his baptism at the hands of St. Silvester.
Leprosy was apparently a serious trouble in the two counties five or six centuries ago.
The leprosy was turned out of doors, or at least the canons would only receive certain ecclesiastics afflicted with leprosy.
Leprosy continued with great severity for upwards of a couple of centuries, but towards the time of Henry VIII.
In the twelfth and thirteenth centuries leprosy was very prevalent in the northern parts of Lancashire; and to meet the requirements a hospital was founded at Preston in the time of Henry III.
At Coniston, in the extreme north of the county, in 1188 was founded a small hospital for lepers, and it would thus appear that even to that remote district leprosy had spread.
But there are dark moral shadows, the population is shrinking away, and rumours of leprosy are afloat, so that some of these fair homes may be desolate ere long.
But small-pox and leprosy are the greatest scourges of this country, the former having here as elsewhere in America committed enormous ravages among the population.
Most authorities agree that they are clean in their habits, and that frequent bathing is the rule, yet it is hinted that leprosy is caused partially by uncleanliness.
An earth-snake, which lives at Kodaikanal on the Palni hills, is credited with giving leprosy to any one whose skin it licks.
The bite of the sand-snake (Eryx Johnii) is believed to cause leprosy and twisting of the hands and feet.
Sekeletu's leprosy brought troops of evils in its train.
Sidenote: Fearful Plagues and Mortality] Leprosyis a terrible scourge.
The Lord did not call the leprosy to return and seize again upon the man who disobeyed him.
It is a serious thought that the disobedience of the men he had set free from blindness and leprosy should be able to hamper him in his work for his father.
Do you assure me that you will cure my leprosy without potion, or applying any external medicine?
The next morning when he arose, he perceived with equal wonder and joy, that his leprosy was cured, and his body as clean as if it had never been affected.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "leprosy" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
