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  • The woman gladly complied, was cured of her eye-trouble, and loaned the charm to another woman, similarly affected, who also soon experienced relief.

    Primitive Psycho-Therapy and Quackery Robert Means Lawrence

  • Leah's little eye-trouble is read in Genesis, I always think of

    Tell England A Study in a Generation Ernest Raymond 1931

  • "They all seem to have eye-trouble," Jimmie commented.

    New Faces Myra Kelly 1893

  • My only German correspondent (Frau von Bulow) is suffering from some eye-trouble, which has interrupted our exchange of letters ... so I am absolutely ignorant of what is going on.

    Letters Liszt, Franz 1893

  • But overwork, poverty, and an eye-trouble produced by his observations on after-images in the retina (also a classic piece of investigation) produced in Fechner, then about thirty-eight years old, a terrific attack of nervous prostration with painful hyperaesthesia of all the functions, from which he suffered three years, cut off entirely from active life.

    A Pluralistic Universe Hibbert Lectures at Manchester College on the Present Situation in Philosophy William James 1876

  • Under facts indicating insanity observed by himself, Dr. Riddel lists M. L.'s complaints of head-ache and eye-trouble and her general restlessness.

    Pioneers of Alienation and 50s Sci-Fi at Thing Street Asylum 8

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