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In their haste the crowd has left an infant on the roadside; the person with leprosy walks by, ringing a bell

1 painting : watercolour, with gouache and pencil ; image 52 x 37.2 cm

People scrambling to get away from a person with leprosy. Watercolour by R. Cooper.

1 print : stipple engraving with etching, with watercolour ; platemark 38 x 28.3 cm

An Icelandic man with leprosy. Coloured engraving by A. Annedouche after L. Bévalet.

1 print : line engraving ; platemark 29.7 x 23.3 cm

Chapel Great Ilford, Leper Hospital, Essex: interior of chapel. Line engraving by W. Wise, 1816, after R.B. Schnebbelie.

Bible. N.T. Acts 3.1-10, where the disease is simply identified with lameness. W.L. Strauss quotes Hans Tietze's statement that "the ailment of the cripple has been identified as leprosy"

1 print : line engraving ; image 11.5 x 7.2 cm

Saint Peter and Saint John heal a man suffering from leprosy. Engraving by A. Dürer, 1513.

Thirteenth annual report and accounts : 1926 / The Homes of St. Giles.

1 print : etching ; border 12.7 x 16.1 cm

Two people with leprosy receiving food through a wall. Etching by Gaitt after A. Decamps.

"In 1908, on reaching the age-limit of 60, he [Turner] retired and returned to Great Britain, where, however, he continued his researches on leprosy. Some years after he left Pretoria it was found that he was suffering from leprosy, contracted it was believed, when in the Transvaal. After a tragic illness, heroically borne, he died at his home at Colyton, Devon, on 13th March, 1915."--Curson, op. cit., p. 750
"Sir George Turner": if this identification is correct, it could refer to Sir George Turner (1848-1915), medical officer of health in South Africa, expert on rinderpest, and medical superintendent of the Pretoria Leper Asylum 1901-1908. He seems the most likely, as (a) the present portait resembles the photograph of him reproduced by Curson, loc. cit., and (b) the present work is accompanied by a photograph of a man with leprosy. Obituaries of him are in Lancet, 20 March 1915, i: 622-623 and 677, and British medical journal, 1915, i: 532-533. An alternative is Sir George Robertson Turner, naval and general surgeon (G.C. Cook in Journal of medical biography, 1995, 3: 170-177)

1 photograph : transparency on glass, printed in colours ; glass 21.5 x 16.5 cm

Sir George Turner. Colour photograph, 19--.

Third annual report and accounts : 1916 / The Company of St. Giles, Limited.

Tai Foong Chee is said to contain the "carefully selected kernels of Hydnocarpus anthelmintica ground as fine as possible". The treatment also includes Tribulus terrestris Linn. (but this is deleted) and Hempseed cannabis indica

1 photograph album (19 leaves, 36 photographs) : photoprints ; mounts 33 x 23 cm

Leprosy: patients in hospital in Kuala Lumpur, before and after treatment. Photograph album by Ernest Travers, 192- (?).

Bible. N.T. Matthew 8.2-3; Mark 1.40-42; Luke 5.12-13

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People scrambling to get away from a person with leprosy. Watercolour by R. Cooper.

An Icelandic man with leprosy. Coloured engraving by A. Annedouche after L. Bévalet.

Chapel Great Ilford, Leper Hospital, Essex: interior of chapel. Line engraving by W. Wise, 1816, after R.B. Schnebbelie.

Saint Peter and Saint John heal a man suffering from leprosy. Engraving by A. Dürer, 1513.

Thirteenth annual report and accounts : 1926 / The Homes of St. Giles.

Two people with leprosy receiving food through a wall. Etching by Gaitt after A. Decamps.

Sir George Turner. Colour photograph, 19--.

Third annual report and accounts : 1916 / The Company of St. Giles, Limited.

Leprosy: patients in hospital in Kuala Lumpur, before and after treatment. Photograph album by Ernest Travers, 192- (?).

Christ cures a man of leprosy; an apostle holds a garment in front of him. Woodcut.

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People scrambling to get away from a person with leprosy. Watercolour by R. Cooper.

An Icelandic man with leprosy. Coloured engraving by A. Annedouche after L. Bévalet.

Chapel Great Ilford, Leper Hospital, Essex: interior of chapel. Line engraving by W. Wise, 1816, after R.B. Schnebbelie.

Saint Peter and Saint John heal a man suffering from leprosy. Engraving by A. Dürer, 1513.

Thirteenth annual report and accounts : 1926 / The Homes of St. Giles.

Two people with leprosy receiving food through a wall. Etching by Gaitt after A. Decamps.

Sir George Turner. Colour photograph, 19--.

Third annual report and accounts : 1916 / The Company of St. Giles, Limited.

Leprosy: patients in hospital in Kuala Lumpur, before and after treatment. Photograph album by Ernest Travers, 192- (?).

Christ cures a man of leprosy; an apostle holds a garment in front of him. Woodcut.

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