Peter Lewis Allen Quotes
Even more than this, however, the sick - like lepers - were often reviled because people believed that they had brought their torments upon themselves. 
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Even more than this, however, the sick - like lepers - were often reviled because people believed that they had brought their torments upon themselves.
- Peter Lewis Allen
Regardless of its geographic origin, people quickly began to notice that the pox traveled from one person to another. They sometimes blamed transmission on common and morally innocuous practices - drinking from a common cup, kissing friends in church, following a syphilitic comrade on the latrine.
- Peter Lewis Allen