opthalmia

Many people in Toser have sore eyes, and several with the loss of one eye, or nearly so; opthalmia, indeed, is the most prevalent disease in all Barbary.

Travels in Morocco 2003

The act also provides for monetary fines for persons convicted of these sexual offences and in the process infecting others with sexually transmitted diseases such as syphilis, gonorrhoea, opthalmia, genital herpes and HIV/AIDS.

ANC Daily News Briefing 1999

The bark is used to make a mouthwash to alleviate toothache and an eyewash to treat opthalmia.

Chapter 1 1994

The opthalmia I suspected as originating from taint, probably having been primarily carried from the coast, as it was not so frequently met with as to warrant the idea of its being either a contagion or the effects of poisonous sands or winds, as supposed to exist.

Official Report of the Niger Valley Exploring Party Martin Robinson Delany

_Ulcerated opthalmia_ is another horrible type, that disease in such chronically affected persons may assume.

Official Report of the Niger Valley Exploring Party Martin Robinson Delany

A very serious eye disease, _Egyptian opthalmia_, is known to be spread by the house-flies and others.

Insects and Diseases A Popular Account of the Way in Which Insects may Spread or Cause some of our Common Diseases Rennie Wilbur Doane

Thus, although an attack of phthisis, rheumatism or opthalmia may be subdued, and the patient put out of pain and danger, the tendency to the disease will still remain and be greatly aggravated by each attack.

The Principles of Breeding or, Glimpses at the Physiological Laws involved in the Reproduction and Improvement of Domestic Animals S. L. Goodale

With a great amount of probability, it has been alleged that his malady was defect of sight, consequent on the dazzling light which shone around him at his conversion, acute opthalmia.

Easton's Bible Dictionary M.G. Easton 1897

It may be that opthalmia especially prevailed in this part of the country, or that being brought unexpectedly into the midst of a large crowd, one observed the people more narrowly, but I certainly never saw so many one-eyed human beings as that morning at Minieh.

A Thousand Miles Up the Nile 1891

To brush away the flies that beset their eyes is impious; hence opthalmia and various kinds of blindness.

A Thousand Miles Up the Nile 1891