Medically, leprosy was, and still is, a ghastly disease.  It’s a systemic, bacterial infection that infects someone’s nerves and upper-respiratory tract.  It permanently damages the skin, nerves, limbs, and eyes.  Until 1941, there was no cure.  Even today, in some areas, leprosy is still a significant, public-health problem. Socially, leprosy isolated someone from the community.  […]