Volume 7

Treasury of human inheritance / edited by Karl Pearson, R.A. Fisher, L.S. Penrose.

Date:
1909-
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Credit: Treasury of human inheritance / edited by Karl Pearson, R.A. Fisher, L.S. Penrose. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    shows no evidence of similar disturbances but on the contrary follows very closely the male curve for the race. To call attention to another fact shown by the female curve—the climacteric appears to have no significance with regard to the onset of the disease, yet the contrary is very commonly stated. Perhaps if a woman is liable to HEREDITARY OPTIC ATROPHY. AGE of onset of the disease. the disease at all she is bound to suffer from periods of lowered resistance or low vitality which would give the tendency an opportunity to manifest itself before the time of the menopause, but whatever the explanation may be I think we may insist that the onset of hereditary optic atrophy must not be added to the list of ills liable to befall woman at this period of her life. Now the onset of this disease is a profoundly disturbing event for the patient and 43 B. T.