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Definition of Leprosies
1. leprosy [n] - See also: leprosy
Lexicographical Neighbors of Leprosies
Literary usage of Leprosies
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Edinburgh Medical Journal (1883)
"lying-in hospitals, lunatic asylums, leprosies, ambulances, in the natives:—Models,
plans, and drawings of civil and military hospitals, the colonies. ..."
2. Reply to Rev. Dr. Woods' "Lecture on Swedenborgianism ;": Delivered in the by George Bush, William Benjamin Hayden, Nathaniel Francis Cabell, Richard Kenner Crallé, Catherine Crowe, Justinus Andreas Christian Kerner, John Clowes, Massachusetts New-Church Union, Swedenborg Foundation (1847)
"... fevers, leprosies, cancers,—offensive diseases inward or outward, especially
those which defile the face, faintness epilepsy, rupture, &c. ..."
3. Magazine of Natural History edited by John Claudius Loudon, Edward Charlesworth, John Denson (1832)
"It is made by drowning live vipers in the wine: it cures leprosies and the French
disease. 9. Powder of vipers compound. It is made as that of serpents, ..."
4. The Dialogues of Plato by Plato, Benjamin Jowett (1907)
"575, L 38, _/0>- •• white leprosies " read " leprous eruptions " or " divers
kinds of leprosies." p. ..."
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