Path. [L. alphos, alphus, a. Gr. ἀλφός a dull-white leprosy.] (See quot.)
1706. Phillips, Alphos, a kind of Morphew or White Specks on the Skin.
1751. Chambers, Cycl., Alphos … described by Celsus under the name of vitiligo; wherein the skin is rough, and becomes sprinkled as it were with drops of white.
c. 1870. Murphy, Comm. Lev. xiii. 39. It is alphos. This is a convenient word instead of the phrase ‘non-contagious leprosy.’
