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This is Hawaii’s Former Leprosy Colony, Where 8,000+ Patients Were Isolated Behind the World’s Tallest Sea Cliffs
Kalaupapa Peninsula sits on Molokai’s northern coast, cut off from the world by towering sea cliffs and rough waters. From ...
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Medicine: Survival of a Dark Age
The leper colony on the Hawaiian island of Molokai was a place of horror when Father Damien de Veuster, a Belgian Catholic priest, landed there in 1873. The victims of leprosy lived in primitive ...
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A young Black scientist discovered a pivotal leprosy treatment in the 1920s − but an older colleague took the credit
The island of Molokai, where the Ball Method successfully treated leprosy sufferers. Albert Pierce Taylor ...