Three new pedigrees of eye disease / Nettleship.

  • Nettleship, Edward, 1845-1913.
Date:
1908
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Credit: Three new pedigrees of eye disease / Nettleship. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    222 SENILE CATARACT. at Moorfields, by Mr. Flemming in 1904, i. e., when about 54. Ill, 11, male, aat. 57 years, seen; two small stria? in R. lens only; became “ short-sighted ” when about forty-five, wears — L25 D., and 1 find his refraction is slightly myopic ; irides blue-grey ; though no opacities are visible in his L. eye, a perfectly clear image of fundus could not be obtained with any lens. None of his six children are short-sighted (sie below). Ill, 12, female, aet. 55 years, has been attending under Mr. Lister and Mr. Worth at Moorfields, with incomplete cataract, for seven years. Ill, 13, female, mt. 53 years, operated upon for cataract at Moorfields by Mr. Fisher, in January, 1907, and a month later with + 7 D. and a cylinder V. = (j ; she may therefore have had some axial myopia. Ill, 14, male, ait. 48 or 49 years, seen; marginal strife and small scattered opacities in both lenses; has — 2 D. III, 15, female, ait. 47 years, seen; changes as in No. 1 I, perhaps rather more advanced ; irregular myopia; has — 3'5 IX for R. and — 5‘5 D. for L. HI, 16, male, ast. 45 years, seen ; no trace of opacity in either lens ; refraction Em. Of the 10 individuals III, 5 to 16, just described, 7 married and have had, between them, a total of 33 children (IV, 1 to 33) ; 7 of the 33 are dead; of the remaining 26 who are alive, and aged from 18 to 40, 25 have been examined, and some lenticular changes are present in 5 of these, viz. : IV, 10, aet. 31 years ; R. lens normal, L. a well-defined rather large opacity at anterior pole of lens with small spur-like projections from circumference; iris and cornea perfect. IV, 11, mt. 29 years ; L. lens normal, R. a single round dot of opacity upwards and inwards of posterior pole. IV, 16, mt. 254 years; hair nearly black, irides grey- brown ; R. lens n., L. a single sharply-defined lanceolate stria downwards and inwards in anterior layers of cortex ;