The name Leprosy has historically negative connotations of unclean dread. Back when the disease was just a mystery, people with such disease were called “Lepers” and were shunned out of society and even put on “leper colonies” to be isolated from the general population (Kearns & Nash, 2016). In 1200 C.E. Europe Leprosy was so common that they even had multiple hospitals set up just for such patients. According to the Britannica Encyclopedia, legend has it that, members of Alexander the Great’s army fell ill to Leprosy when they invaded India in 4th century BCE where they carried it into the Middle East and the Mediterranean on their way back home. It is also believed that Roman soldiers in Pompey spread the disease from Egypt to Italy in
