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The People Only Death Will Touch
Leprosy has been the world’s most feared disease for centuries but this missionary went into Africa to find there’s no foundation for blind fear and that new drugs show promise of a cure October 15 1950 THE REV. ARTHUR PAYTON, LAWRENCE EARL
The People Only Death Will Touch
Leprosy has been the world’s most feared disease for centuries but this missionary went into Africa to find there’s no foundation for blind fear and that new drugs show promise of a cure
THE REV. ARTHUR PAYTON
I SHALL never forget Rosa.
She was very short and stocky and her clothes had been repaired so often it was impossible to tell which was patch and which original cloth. Her white hair contrasted sharply with her wrinkled black skin. She was about 70.
ONE of Scotland’s many unsung medical heroes is Dr Isabel Kerr, whose pioneering work in the treatment of leprosy is often forgotten in her native land but not in India where her memory is revered. It was in this week of 1932 that Dr Kerr died at the age of 57. She had devoted the last 25 years of her life to nursing sick people in India, particularly those afflicted with leprosy, and is reckoned to have saved hundreds, if not thousands, of lives. Leprosy, also known as Hansen’s Disease, has been a curse on the human species for thousands of years. The name comes from two Greek words that together mean scaly-skinned man – serious skin lesions are a common symptom of leprosy.