Gerhard Armauer Hansen that the leprosy acts of 1877 and 1885 were passed, leading to a steady decline of the disease in Norway from 1,800 known cases in 1875 to just 575 cases in 1901. His distinguished work was recognized at the International Leprosy Congress held at Bergen in 1909. Hansen had suffered from syphilis since the 1860s but died of heart disease. He was an atheist. Gerhard Armauer Hansen Gerhard Henrik Armauer Hansen (29 July 1841 – 12 February 1912) was a Norwegian physician, remembered for his identification of the bacterium "Mycobacterium leprae" in 1873 as the causative agent of leprosy. Hansen
Yorùbá medicine between Yorùbá medicine and orthodox medicine is that the former is homeopathic in nature while the later is allopathic. He goes on to say that the orthodox methodology for the treatment of diseases is based on what he called "the contrary principle," which states that: "illnesses and diseases should be treated with chemical agents that produce effects that are in opposition to those exhibited by the illnesses being treated". This type of practise is concerned with the elimination of symptoms. However, according to Makinde: "The treatment of a disease is the application of what such disease is forbidden to come