Task: Question Understanding
Input (English): Context : François Huber was only fifteen years old when he began to suffer from a disease which gradually resulted in total blindness; but, with the aid of his wife, Marie Aimée Lullin, and of his servant, François Burnens, he was able to carry out investigations that laid the foundations of a scientific knowledge of the life history of the honey bee. 
Question : What was François Huber's medical condition near the end of his life?
Output (English): medical condition