"Hanseniasis" is the medical term introduced in the State of S. Paulo, Brazil (1967) to initiate the liberation of a common physical disease caused by Myco. hansenii 1 from the dinosauruslike size and weight of the terror, ignorance, superstition, stigma and sensationalism perpetually yoked to the pernicious, degrading and loathsome pejorative "leprosy". The new medical name rapidly spread to o...