Idiosyncrasies / by Sir Humphry Rolleston.

  • Rolleston, Humphry Davy, Sir, 1862-1944.
Date:
1927
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Credit: Idiosyncrasies / by Sir Humphry Rolleston. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    quantities, one ounce a day in Hutchinson’s cases. The liability to tobacco amblyopia may well be favoured by some inherent or hereditary factor; for identical symptoms may occur in life-long abstainers from both tobacco and alcohol (Maitland Ramsay1), the latter being usually con¬ sidered to favour the occurrence of tobacco amblyopia. Hutchinson2 recorded examples of its occurrence in several members of a family: the mother, who did not smoke, had the same, but permanent, impairment of vision that her sons acquired from smoking but re¬ covered from when they abstained. Tolerance may be modified or even abolished by disease, for example influenza, and often gets less with advancing years ; this may be due to several factors, to impaired resistance, to arteriosclerosis, and to diminished renal excretion (Maitland Ramsay). (B) Abnormal hypersensitiveness or 1 Maitland Ramsay, Reports of St. Andrews (James Mackenzie) Institute for Clinical Re¬ search, 1926, in, 23. 2 Hutchinson, J., The Pedigree of Disease, p. 38, 1884.