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2002
Traces of leprosy from the Czech Kingdom
STROUHAL, Eugen, Ladislava HORÁČKOVÁ, Jakub LIKOVSKÝ, Lenka VARGOVÁ, Jan DANEŠ et. al.Basic information
Original name
Traces of leprosy from the Czech Kingdom
Authors
STROUHAL, Eugen (203 Czech Republic), Ladislava HORÁČKOVÁ (203 Czech Republic, guarantor), Jakub LIKOVSKÝ (203 Czech Republic), Lenka VARGOVÁ (203 Czech Republic) and Jan DANEŠ (203 Czech Republic)
Edition
Bradford (UK), The Past and Present of Leprosy, p. 223-232, 10 pp. 2002
Publisher
University of Bradford
Other information
Language
English
Type of outcome
Stať ve sborníku
Field of Study
Archaeology, anthropology, ethnology
Country of publisher
Czech Republic
Confidentiality degree
není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství
RIV identification code
RIV/00216224:14110/02:00007828
Organization unit
Faculty of Medicine
ISBN
1-84171-434-8
Keywords in English
Leprosy; iconography; paleopathology; M. leprae; DNA
Tags
Změněno: 27/6/2008 13:09, doc. MUDr. Lenka Vargová, Ph.D.
Abstract
V originále
Leprosy in the Medieval Czech Kingdom has yet to be thoroughly studied. Traces of the disease are, however, found in three independent data sources. Historical texts mention "leper" houses in several towns, including the one adjacent to the St. Lazarus chapel outside the Old Town of Prague, operating from the mid-13th to the end of the 15th century AD. Iconographic evidence of facies leprosa and thickening of the toes have been recently recognized in one of the "Three Apostles" from an anonymous painting dated AD 1510 in the National Galery in Prague. In addition, a male skull from an ossuary sample (n=554) at Křtiny near Brno, displays osseous changes suggestive of the rhinomaxillary syndrome of leprosy. The diagnosis was confirmed by the isolation of Mycobacterium leprae DNA in a bone sample.This is the first osteoarchaeological evidence of leprosy published from the territory of the former Czech Kingdom.
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