ophthalmia

“Bernard! How can you?” the passage of an old woman with ophthalmia and a disease of the skin distracted her from her indignation.

But without glancing at the group, he sent for Ali who had to remain in the rear because he was suffering from painful ophthalmia.

We dread the attacks of ophthalmia, as the surgeons call it; we call it commonly the blight in our eyes.

So we speak of the great class of sequel� of acute or subacute disorders; as, ophthalmia after measles, deafness following scarlet fever, or blindness small-pox, abscesses following typhoid fever, paralysis diphtheria, etc.

Practically all the severe eye diseases of newly born children, the ophthalmia from which so many eyes are lost, is due to this disease.