Caption

Group of leprosy patients. Sick beggars at the entrance to a temple in Rangoon. Leprosy (Hansen's disease), bacterial infection caused by Mycobacterium leprae. The pathogen was discovered in 1873 by the Norwegian doctor and zoologist Gerhard Armauer Hansen. Medicine, history of medicine, photography around 1900, Rangoon, Myanmar, formerly Burma, Southeast Asia, Asia, historical

Date

Feb 01, 1900

Credit line

Photo12/imageBROKER/Medical Image Archive

Reference

BRK26A68_177

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No

Property release

No

License type

Rights managed

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77,2Mb (3,7Mb) / 20,0in x 15,0in / 6000 x 4500 (300dpi)

Keywords

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