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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

01 févr. 1900

Crédit

Photo12/imageBROKER/Medical Image Archive

Notre référence

BRK26A68_177

Model release

Non

Property release

Non

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

77,2Mo (3,7Mo) / 50,8cm x 38,1cm / 6000 x 4500 (300dpi)

Mots clés

several entrance building sacral building temple healthcare medicine medical care health story beggar beg poor Southeast Asia Asia Scandinavian photography medical Myanmar infection historic Burmese nordic Norwegian group professional sick doctor risk of infection disease person turn of the century infect poverty former hungry social issue travel photography zoologist Yangon Region Rangoon Leprosy 1900s Leprosy patient History of medicine bunch of entry structure sacred building healthcare system Healthcare tale Southeastern Asia medicinal historical ill healthcare professional sickness Human being epidemic Rangoon Division Yangon Hansen's disease around 1900 multiple construction religious building diseased physician danger of infection illness People contagious Yangon Division Burma medical practitioner infectious virulent infective entrances buildings temples stories beggars begging infections groups doctors risks of infections diseases persons formerly social issues zoologists historically human constructions religious buildings temple's begs South east Asia historical image history image history images individual individuals Health care humans