"Ophthalmia" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... {Greek: krite:rion}, Henry More {Greek: chrysalis}, Ben Jonson speaks of 'the knowledge of the liberal arts, which the Greeks call {Greek: enkyklopadeian}'{59}, Culverwell wrote {Greek: me:tropolis} and {Greek: ophthalmia}, Preston, {Greek: phainomena}—Sylvester ascribes to Baxter, not 'pathos', but {Greek: pathos}{60}. {Greek: E:thos} is a word at the present moment preparing for a like passage from Greek characters to English, ...
— English Past and Present • Richard Chenevix Trench
... one at Jisr-Benat-Yakub who was willing to accompany him along the eastern shore of the Jordan, until a native, believing him to be a doctor, begged him to go and see his sheik, who was suffering from ophthalmia, and who lived upon the eastern bank of ...
— Celebrated Travels and Travellers - Part III. The Great Explorers of the Nineteenth Century • Jules Verne
... exactly similar manner, thus trying to reduce the endless variety of nature to one common pattern, a mistake that may be accounted for by the fact that the Arabs believe kohol to be a sovereign specific against ophthalmia. Their English sisters often make the same mistake without the same excuse. A hairpin steeped in lampblack is the usual method of darkening the eyes in England, retribution following sooner or later in the shape of a total loss of the eyelashes. Eau de Cologne is occasionally ...
— Burroughs' Encyclopaedia of Astounding Facts and Useful Information, 1889 • Barkham Burroughs
... up the creek for 16 miles, the party reached the main camp on the lagoons early in the day. Here they found all right, with the exception that most of the party were suffering from different stages of sandy-blight, or ophthalmia. A calf was killed, and the hungry vanguard were solaced with a good feed of veal. Byerley Creek having been found utterly destitute of grass, badly watered, and moreover trending ultimately to the S. of W., the Leader determined to take the cattle on to the next, which was well watered, having ...
— The Overland Expedition of The Messrs. Jardine • Frank Jardine and Alexander Jardine
... squint; blearedness^, day blindness, hemeralopia^, nystagmus; xanthocyanopia^, xanthopsia [Med.]; cast in the eye, swivel eye, goggle-eyes; obliquity of vision. winking &c v.; nictitation; blinkard^, albino. dizziness, swimming, scotomy^; cataract; ophthalmia. [Limitation of vision] blinker; screen &c (hider) 530. [Fallacies of vision] deceptio visus [Lat.]; refraction, distortion, illusion, false light, anamorphosis^, virtual image, spectrum, mirage, looming, phasma^; phantasm, phantasma^, ...
— Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases: Body • Roget
... every sick person either have the gout, or be in a fever, or suffer from ophthalmia? Or do you believe that a man may labour under some other disease, even although he has none of these complaints? Surely, they are not the ...
— Alcibiades II • An Imitator of Plato
... any flesh or grain, but to live entirely on sour milk, wild honey, or gums, as they may chance to come across them, and they are almost naked; but notwithstanding this, disease is scarcely known, and excepting in a few cases of endemic ophthalmia, which appears to attack the country periodically, at intervals of two or three years, I never heard of any. The climate was very delightful at this season, and the nights so cold I had to wrap myself well up in flannels. But perhaps that which best illustrates the healthiness of the country and ...
— What Led To The Discovery of the Source Of The Nile • John Hanning Speke |
