Leprosy: treatment, traditional medicine

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Leprosy: treatment, traditional medicine. The Leprosy Mission International. Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). Source: Wellcome Collection.

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This slide shows burns over the chest and arm of a young boy in Indonesia. A traditional healer has applied acid to patches of leprosy on the chest and arm in an attempt to remove them. Note that this was a local, traditional form of treatment and does not result in bacteriological cure.

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