For. my friends. the fear of this awful malady has been with men and women from almost the twilight of history. It was known as the scourge and curse of the human race 1.500 years before Christ. in India. aind in the Orient and Palestine. and ithe countries immediately east of it. leprosy existed in almost pestilential degree until the first century of the Christian era. As tile power of the Roman Emipire decl ied in the west of Europe a strong tide of immigration from the Levant set in and leprosy spread uut il no country in Europe was free from it. and the returning Crusaders spread and aggravated the disease in the eleventh and twelfth centuries. Between the sixth and the fifteenth centuries leprosy was by far the most dangerous and dreaded disease of which any account has come d]own to us through history or tradition. For the leper there was no hope at all on tills earth.
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