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Treatments

  • Carry religious relics
  • Use natural herbs and oils
  • Bloodletting to balance black bile
  • Soil from ant-hills
  • Lilly flowers
  • Spiritual interventions

Contrary Beliefs

  • Suffering was sent from God and was not a punishment
  • Lepers were holy and could become saints
  • The suffering endured was similar to what Christ endured, and brought them closer to Christ

Meanings of Leprosy in the Middle Ages

Leprosy

"rules"

  • Not permitted to enter a church or marketplace
  • You were to carry a bell if you had leprosy, in order to warn those around you of your diseased state
  • Could not touch anything or anyone without gloves and lesions needed to be generally covered
  • You were to walk on the other side of the street depending on the wind
  • Could not inherit anything
  • Priests made decisions

Leprosy

stigma

Leprosy

  • "Lepers" were predominantly shunned from society
  • It was a common belief that they were being punished by God for some sort of sin they had committed or that they had engaged in sexual acts before marriage

today

  • Leper Houses gave refugee to those with leprosy, but were often a far distance away from town
  • Most people were afraid to come into contact with someone infected, because the mode of transmission was truly unknown

Leprosy (Hansen's Disease) is a slowly progressing bacterial infection that affects the skin, peripheral nerves in the hands and feet, and the mucous membranes of the nose, throat, and eyes.

  • You were considered "unclean" if you had leprosy

Leprosy

in the Middle Ages

  • Those with leprosy were called "lepers"
  • Anyone with a skin deformity was labeled as a leper
  • Social stereotypes associated with leprosy were similar to the human response of plague outbreaks and more recently, the HIV epidemic
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