Abstract
This article counts various developments and contributions in the field of leprosy research and curative services in Oxford, England, over the last four decades. Recent figures from the World Health Organization for the global situation record 523,605 registered cases and a total of 612,110 new cases detected during 2002. Great Britain registers between 12 and 15 new cases yearly, and currently has 120 under treatment or surveillance, all of whom have acquired the infection abroad. Hundreds of leper hospitals existed in Great Britain between 1000 AD and 1500 AD. Scientific interest in leprosy was initiated by researchers at the Dunn School of Pathology in Oxford, but productive research may, suggestively, be said to have started with a chance meeting between R.J.W. Rees, head of the Laboratory for Leprosy and Mycobacterial Research, National Institute for Medical Research, London, and Graham Weddell, reader in Human Anatomy, University of Oxford.
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