leprosarium

• “The nine miles from Ban Me Thuot to the leprosarium was the longest nine miles in the world.”

  Vietti, Eleanor A.

• “The day the Viet Cong raided the leprosarium was a Wednesday.”

  Vietti, Eleanor A.

• “Public-spirited citizens wrote to the papers, declaiming against the maintenance of such a danger to the community, and demanding that the United States government build a national leprosarium on some remote island or isolated mountain peak.”

  CHAPTER XXI

• “By 1914, the site was designated a national leprosarium and President Woodrow Wilson assigned $250,000 for the “care and treatment of people affected with leprosy.””

  The Sanctuary of Outcasts (copy)

• “He was working in the laboratory of a leprosarium when he and Guevara took to the road.”

  The Washington Post: Alberto Granado, Che Guevara's motorcycle companion, dies at 88

• “Founded in 1894 as a state leprosarium in nearby Carville, La., the center is considered the premier research and treatment facility in the world for leprosy," The Post reports.”

  Old myths about leprosy still around

• “Cortés built a leprosarium, the Hospital de San Lázaro, named for the patron saint of lepers, in Tlaxpana, outside Mexico City.”

  Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico

• “My North Vietnamese captors deliberately poisoned and murdered a female missionary, a nurse in a leprosarium in Ban me Thuot,”

  Benge letter

• “Vietnamese captors deliberately poisoned and murdered a female missionary, a nurse in a leprosarium in Ban me Thuot, South Vietnam, whom I buried in the jungle near the Cambodian border.”

  Enough already

• “My North Vietnamese captors deliberately poisoned and murdered a female missionary, a nurse in a leprosarium in Ban me Thuot, South Vietnam, whom I buried in the jungle near the Cambodian border.”

  Enough already

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