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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.
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The idea of infection began to be taken far more seriously than it ever had before. Hospitals transformed themselves in response to the new plague – sometimes for the better, but often for the worse, as when, in fear, they cast their ulcerated patients out into the streets.
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