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Re: leprosy and vintage mouthpieces

Posted: Sat Feb 27, 2016 9:55 pm
by Donn
I looked it up, herbal remedy is "latex of Sodom".

But I doubt that it has anything to do with an old mouthpiece. The risk of contacting leprosy is one good reason not to be fooling around with armadillos.

Re: leprosy and vintage mouthpieces

Posted: Sat Feb 27, 2016 10:58 pm
by iiipopes
If the silver plating on the mouthpiece is intact, then you had about as much a chance of contracting leprosy off the mouthpiece as a churchman contracting the flu off a chalice - zero.

Since leprosy is a bacteriological illness, is there anything you need to discuss otherwise? As in the biblical causes of leprosy? We would all hate it if the cause was a "leprous house."