Out of the shadow of leprosy : the Carville letters and stories of the Landry family /
In 1924, when thirty-two-year-old Edmond Landry kissed his family good-bye and left for the leprosarium in Carville, Louisiana, leprosy (now referred to as Hansen's Disease) stigmatized and disfigured but did not kill. Those with leprosy were incarcerated in the federal hospital and isolated fr...
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2013
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