The Department of Manuscripts and Rare Documents of the Tartu University Library includes bibliographic notes on leprosy compiled by Dr. S. Talvik, remarks to the (new, Soviet) plans concerning the fight against leprosy, from Dr. P. Parmakson (Head of the Kuuda leprosarium). It also contains materials on the history of medicine, collected by Prof. H. Normann at the Department of manuscripts and rare documents of the Tartu University Library: a manuscript “On the History of Leprosy in the Baltic Provinces” concentrating mainly on the Medieval era and the island Saaremaa. There are photographs including the meeting of doctors of the Society of the Doctors of Saaremaa at the leprosarium Audaku, and also photographs of the leprosarium in Muuli. Additionally, there are unpublished dissertations on leprosy, written at the University of Tartu (1920, 1929, 1943, 1984)
Entry made September 19, 2005