On retinitis pigmentosa and allied diseases / by E. Nettleship.

  • Nettleship, Edward, 1845-1913.
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[1903-1908]
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    that the author does not give the unaffected persons; III, 1 was aet. 19. A case by Rosenbaum (his Case 2), is similarly incomplete, and needs no illustration. Fig. 9 shows Case 13 of the same author. Ill, 1 was set. 19. Fig. 10, from W. D. Lee (his family IV); I, 1 had retinitis pigmentosa, and became blind at 35; II, 1 had the disease com- plicated with cataract, and of her only two children the elder, a well-developed boy of 13, had the typical retinal disease. Of families showing the disease, in only two conlimious generations many examples could be given, but the following will suffice to illustrate some different modes of this degree of inheritance. Association of Retinitis Pigmentosa and Myopia. Fig. 11, from Ransohoff.—Inquiry showed that no cases were known in the stock before Generation II, nor had there I 3E m been consanguineous marriages. In II, Nos. 1 and 5 had retinitis pigmentosa and myopia; Nos. 2, 3, and 4 normal. II, 1,