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  • Bones of the hands of two lepers
  • Clappers and crutches used by lepers. 12th Century.
  • St. Elizabeth of Hungary and the lepers by Hans Holbein
  • The Albert Victor asylum for lepers, Gohea, Calcutta, India: view of the lake and asylum building. Photograph, 1900/1920.
  • Tocunduba Lepers' Asylum, Pará, Brazil: a row of basic cottages; a horse and cart outside a larger building. Photograph, 1890/1910.
  • The Albert Victor asylum for lepers, Gohea, Calcutta, India: female patients in white saris on the steps of the female block. Photograph, 1900/1920.
  • The Albert Victor asylum for lepers, Gohea, Calcutta, India: male patients in white robes on the steps of the male block. Photograph, 1900/1920.
  • Seal of St Giles of Solop. it bears the figure of a Hind, by whose milk St Giles was supported in his desert. The squarish figure above may have denoted, but on this conjecture we do not insist; the clack-dish or alms basket with a clapper, which lepers were obliged to employ in begging charity standing "afar off", lest their touch should pollute the benevolent.
  • Chinese leper
  • Manuscript showing leper
  • Possibly Beggar's or Leper's rattle
  • The James M. Patton Leper Village, Chiengmai Leper Asylum, Thailand: visiting Thai royalty leave in a car. Photograph, 1921.
  • Patients from the Leper Hospital, Nicosia, Cyprus.
  • M0006864: A leper with his clapper
  • The Cid aiding a leper, 1841, Penny Magazine
  • Mantiva Leper Hospital: the nurses' quarters. Photograph, 1890/1920.
  • Group of leper camp workers, Yakusu, Belgian Congo
  • Group in front of Ngwaka, Yalisombo leper camp
  • Image of leper in J. Borelli's "Ethiopie meridionale"
  • View of the Leper camp laboratory from the river
  • The leper camp laboratory from the river, Belgian Congo
  • The James M. Patton Leper Village, Chiengmai Leper Asylum, Thailand: Thai royalty and politicians stand at the entrance with asylum doctors; patients are seated. Photograph, 1921.
  • Chiengmai Leper Asylum, Thailand: a group of male patients. Photograph, 1921.
  • Leper asylum, Foochow (Fuzhou), China: patients seated outside basic shelters. Photograph, 1880/1910.
  • Chiengmai Leper Asylum, Thailand: a water tower and cottages. Photograph, ca. 1921.
  • Chiengmai Leper Asylum, Thailand: a man and a woman with leprosy. Photograph, 1921.
  • Leper asylum, Guyana (formerly British Guiana): wooden residences for male patients. Photograph, 1880/1900.
  • Leper asylum, Guyana (formerly British Guiana): residences for the female patients. Photograph, 1880/1900.
  • M0006862: Scene showing the leper Lazarus in the home of a rich man
  • M0006902: The governors of the Leper Hospital at Amsterdam meeting with two children