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This is a book that I read sometime between 1995 and 2000, targeted toward children - I think it was targeted at the 10 to 12 age bracket - about a medieval boy who contracts leprosy. He is sent to a leper colony and is given a pair a clappers to warn other people that he is coming. Along the way he rescues a Jewish man from robbers. The man turns out to be a doctor and after inspecting him, tells the boy that what he has is not leprosy, but a far more benign skin disease (I can't remember if the doctor could cure him, or if the disease would go away on its own.). The doctor offers the boy to stay with him and his family until he is cured. The boy is initially reluctant because he is prejudiced toward Jews, but he eventually decides to take him up on his offer.
I don't think I ever actually finshed the novel, but I remember one scene in particular. At one point the boy develops a toothache and has to have a tooth pulled. To lessen the pain, the doctor hypnotizes the boy by having him stare at his ring. The doctor may also have had a daughter who becomes the boy's love interest, but I'm less sure about that.
I read the book in Dutch, but I don't know if that was the original language or if it was a translation. When I try searching for it, the novel Schijndood by Simone van der Vlugt keeps coming up, but I've read that book, and that's not it.
Edited by Kipvis