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Leprosy in Premodern Medicine: A Malady of the Whole Body by Luke Demaitre (Hardcover, 2007)

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To date, the most thorough examination of how contemporaries understood leprosy and dealt with its sufferers. -- Wendy J. Turner, Ph.D. -- Charlotte A. Roberts The Historian. 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.".