Like scrofula! This disease causes large glandular swellings in the neck. (Nasty!) And it even has a cool nickname: the King’s Evil. (That’s because it was once believed that a touch from a king could cure the disease. How’s that for scientific?) But not to worry. In the very unlikely event that you were to get scrofula, it’s treatable with modern antibiotics. But a disease you wouldn’t ever be able to get rid of is leprosy, which causes your skin to get thicker while your nerves die off. Then your “extremities” (the parts of your body farthest from your heart) get numb and rot. Sometimes they fall off. As the disease worsens, you can lose your fingers, toes, nose, eyebrows, and even bigger pieces of yourself. But Did It Hurt?In 1996, a Missouri woman sued her county government after she fell in an icy school parking lot. According to her lawsuit: “All the bones, organs, muscles, tendons, tissues, nerves, veins, arteries, ligaments . . . discs, cartilages, and the joints of her body were fractured, broken, ruptured, punctured, compressed, dislocated, separated, bruised, contused, narrowed, abrased, lacerated, burned, cut, torn, wrenched, swollen, strained, sprained, inflamed, and infected.”Since leprosy can be contagious, “lepers”
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