Cases of symmetrically-placed opacities of the corneae, ocurring in mother and son / by Charles A. Oliver.

  • Oliver, Charles A. (Charles Augustus), 1853-1911.
Date:
[1892?]
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Credit: Cases of symmetrically-placed opacities of the corneae, ocurring in mother and son / by Charles A. Oliver. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    no perceptible change in appearance of the corneal spots is evident. During the first weeks of the study of this case it was thought advisable to examine the mother, who was a widow, and her other child, a daughter of fifteen years of age. The sister of the patient failed to exhibit any ocular abnormality, except a minor degree of simple hyperme- tropic astigmatism. The mother, however, a seemingly healthy woman of forty-five years of age, without any apparent organic lesion or history of pronounced illness, stated that she had had, as long as she could remember, a difficulty with her eyes, which was apparently similar to that of her son. Com- pletely free from any evidences of other gross ocular lesion, her corneae presented the peculiarly circumscribed deep and superficial opacities shown in the upper part of the sketch, they being more irregular in outline, and their central portions much fainter, than those of her son. The apparent heredity in the two cases is almost certain, when we consider that here we have a seemingly healthy woman with long-standing peculiarly-localised and symmetrically-placed opacities of the corneae, who, although having a daughter as yet unaffected, has her ocular infirmity directly repeated in an otherwise healthy son; a similarity in two of the most impressionable of blood relations— mother and son—in whom, in spite of all attempts at solving the problem by the most scrutinising search into family and personal history, the most careful general and local examination, and the most persistent and prolonged antidyscratic treatment, I have so far entirely failed to find any clue as to the true meaning. 1507 Locust St., Philadelphia, Penn'a, U.S.A.