butelleese

Updated: August 10, 2026

People were all shivering, or wrapped up in their burnouses. Said is attacked with ophthalmia. Received a visit from an old Arab doctor. He says cattle are attacked with the plague, as well as men. He wrote me a receipt for the cure of night-blindness, which would cure it in one night. Mr. Jackson, in his Morocco, calls this strange disease butelleese.

James Richardson - Travels in the Great Desert of Sahara, in the Years of 1845 and 1846