Index Home Leprosy is an infection, affecting skin and the nerves. We discovered organism causing this infection, Mycobacterium leprae in 1873, nine years before its more famous counterpart Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Saga of discrimination and leprosy is eternal. Society discriminated against sufferers of this disease, and scientific community against Dr Gerhard Hansen – a Norwegian Physician who… Continue reading Leprosy: Saga of an eternal discrimination
Health and Medicine in Postal Stamps
This site explores aspects of health, medicine, history of medicine, and advances from my collection of postal stamps