(*) Mary Magdalene was the patron saint of many of this disease's British hospitals, including a chapel at Cambridge that was granted dispensation to hold the Stourbridge fair by King John in 1211.
Key osteological data on this disease comes from Saint Jørgensen's cemetery in Denmark, where it became epidemic in the thirteenth century. The Kikuchi Keifuen sanatorium was founded for people with this disease, who were forcibly hospitalized around Honmyōji Temple in 1940 as part of the government-sponsored movement to eliminate it from all prefectures. (*) Mary Magdalene was the patron saint of many of this disease's British hospitals, including a chapel at Cambridge that was granted dispensation to hold the Stourbridge fair by King John in 1211. Indian chaulmoogra oil was once used to treat this disease, which in the U.S. only became common in Louisiana. Hagioscopes were windows into churches for people with this disease, which was treated by the Order of Saint Lazarus. For 10 points, name this disease contracted by Father Damien in the Molokai colony.
Key osteological data on this disease comes from Saint Jørgensen's cemetery in Denmark, where it became epidemic in the thirteenth century.
leprosy [or Hansen's disease; accept elephantiasis graecorum; accept HD; accept the Phoenician disease; accept lepers]