A case of eye disease (lippitudo) on the
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Anthony R. Birley
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Article
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1992
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Springer-Verlag
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English
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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