An unusual form of hereditary congenital cataract occurring in several members of a family / by Burton Chance.

  • Chance, Burton Kollock, 1868-1965.
Date:
1907
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Credit: An unusual form of hereditary congenital cataract occurring in several members of a family / by Burton Chance. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    GENITAL CATARACT OCCURRING IN SEV- ERAL MEMBERS OF A FAMILY.1 By Dr. BURTON CHANCE, Philadelphia. (With five drawings on Text-Plate XI.) IN this report I intend briefly to describe the case of a family in which five members are affected by a very definite and peculiar variety of congenital cataract. The family consists of a man, his wife, five sons, and one daughter; the persons known to be affected are the father, the third, fourth, and fifth sons, and the daughter. The man has no recollection of his parents having disease of their eyes, though he remembers that they wore glasses in his youth. His father lived to be four- score; his mother was already a widow with one child when she and his father married. By this union there were three sons. The step-sister had bad sight, and one of her five children, a girl, had eye troubles. His two brothers had good sight, but as he has been separated from all his family for many years, nothing positive as to their history can be given. His wife, the mother of all his children, has good sight, and her history is negative. The first member of this family I saw was the sixth child, a boy of eleven, who came for the treatment of a black eye. The father said he had noticed that this boy at six could not see as well as the other children could at that age; later he got glasses for him at a jeweler’s. ‘Read before the American Ophthalmological Society meeting at Washington, D. C., May 8 and 9, 1907.