lazar house

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim Synonym of leprosery: A building used to house lepers, usually in permanent quarantine from the rest of society.

   “[…] Immediately a place Before his eyes appeard, sad, noysom, dark, A Lazar-house it seemd, wherein were laid Numbers of all diseas’d, all maladies Of gastly Spasm, or racking torture, qualmes Of heart-sick Agonie, all feavorous kinds […]”

2. isim A hospital or lazaret for quarantining patients suffering highly infectious diseases.

   “A portion of the Infirmary of the town was added to that already set apart for a fever-ward; the smitten were carried thither at once, whenever it was possible, in order to prevent the spread of infection; and on that lazar-house was concentrated all the medical skill and force of the place.”