leper

Modified chaulmoogra oil, based on the Ball Method, was distributed worldwide and helped free countless people from isolated leper colonies.

From New York Times ● Apr. 8, 2023

Chief among the rudely treated are women of childbearing age and the denizens of a leper colony outside Nazareth’s gates.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 16, 2022

A triumphant McKissick called Wood's supporters "a fringe, rogue group" and vowed to turn them into a "leper colony" by building parallel Republican organizations in their territory.

From Salon ● Sep. 3, 2021

Set flamboyantly in the Holy Land, a miracle worker has arrived — just as one who, centuries before, healed a desperate leper who came before him after delivery of the Sermon on the Mount.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 23, 2020

“Father says I must tell you everything, but the inside story of the life of the leper in a poor and sadly abandoned leper colony is too full of heartaches, misery, and want,” she writes.

From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly

Distillers threw rotten fruit and molasses waste in the gallon to brew with ammonium chloride to produce something called “snake juice,” which was collected by lepers and taken around the city.

From Salon ● Feb. 2, 2025

"I simply hope that people who, in my opinion, have been treated rather like lepers, are now on a journey which treats them as people with a health condition."

From BBC ● May 16, 2022

We’re dodging each other like lepers on a sunny spring day, prospecting for toilet paper in the grocery aisles, washing our hands until they become wounds unto themselves.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 8, 2020

Her work from Kolkata, India, helping orphans, lepers and the poor had spread to other countries.

From Washington Times ● Dec. 24, 2019

In some places, lepers had to yell, “Unclean!” and shake a rattle as they walked through the streets.

From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly