A case of eye disease (Lippitudo) on the Roman frontier in Britain.
A newly excavated Roman report, written in ink on wood, on the strength of the First Cohort of Tungrians at Vindolanda in northern Britain, registers 31 men unfit, 15 as sick, 6 as wounded, the remainder, 10, with eye-disease, 'lippientes'. The paper also comments on the prevalence of eye-disease in antiquity and some of the suggested causes thereof.
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D005128:Eye Diseases / Q000266:history*; D049690:History, Ancient; D006801:Humans; D008374:Manuscripts, Medical as Topic / Q000266:history; D009885:Ophthalmology / Q000266:history; D012384:Rome; D006113:United Kingdom