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n. - Severe conjunctivitis.

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  • SOCRATES: Take the case of any bodily affection: -- a man may have the complaint in his eyes which is called ophthalmia?
  • All the people of Damerghou are afflicted with ophthalmia, which is said to arise from the winds that prevail constantly over this open and unsheltered country.
  • Breaden and Godfrey were suffering agonies from "sandy blight," a sort of ophthalmia, which is made almost unbearable by the clouds of flies, the heat, the glare, and...
  • SOCRATES: And is every kind of ophthalmia a disease?
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