| PAGE | |
| Title | [1] |
| Dedication | [3] |
| Contents | [5] |
| Forespeech | [7] |
| The Leprosy of Scripture | [9] |
| The Leprosy of the Middle Ages | [13] |
| Lazar Houses | [16] |
| Status of Lepers | [26] |
| Summary | [29] |
| Appendix A.—Notes | [39] |
| "B.—English Lazar Houses | [43] |
FORESPEECH.
The subject matter embraced within these covers, consists chiefly of notes, made for a lecture delivered in Christ Church Schoolroom, Scarborough, on Thursday, March 5th, 1891, and is published by special request.
No claim for originality is made. The works of the late Sir James Y. Simpson, Professor of Medicine in the University of Edinburgh, (Archæological Essays, Vol. II.); Sir Risdon Bennett, M.D., LL.D., F.B.S., “Diseases of the Bible”; Dr. Greenhill, in “Bible Educator”; Leland’s “Itinerary”; Dugdale’s “Monasticon,” &c., &c., have been freely drawn upon, and to these writers, therefore, it is the desire here to acknowledge the indebtedness which is due.
Various Notes will be found in the Appendix, which it is hoped will prove of interest.
THE LEPER IN ENGLAND.
There is perhaps no subject of greater interest, nor one which awakens more sympathy, than that of the Leper; it affords a most curious, though painful topic of enquiry, particularly in the present day, when so much has been said and written, as to the probability and possibility of the loathsome scourge again obtaining a hold in this, our own country.