The Ashantee War: a blind beggar, Cape Coast Castle, 1874. Onchocerciasis, also known as river blindness, is a disease caused by infection with the parasitic worm Onchocerca volvulus. It is the second-most common cause of blindness due to infection, after trachoma. From "Illustrated London News", 1874.
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