A son, born a year after, was a six-fingered idiot, with retinitis pigmentosa.
Among thirty-five children there were eleven hemeralopes and two six-fingered children, who died too young to determine the existence of retinitis pigmentosa.
Beside the anomalies, diseased conditions like retinitis pigmentosa, congenital cataract and the macular degeneracy cited by C.
It occurs with all the degeneracies of the eye, from those which are purely atavistic like coloboma to those like retinitis pigmentosa and amauroses, which are atavistic in origin.
The defect was described as "optic atrophy associated with a pigmentary retinitis and choryditis" and "this condition," Dr.
This retinal sclerosis is consequently generally known as retinitis pigmentosa, a disease to which there is a hereditary predisposition.
It is especially serious when the more central portions of the retina, are thus affected (choroido-retinitis centralis).
Retinitis pigmentosa in known to be strongly inheritable, as is albinism and congenital cataract.
Retinitis pigmentosa is perhaps more generally attributed to consanguineous marriage than any other specific disease of the eye, and it is to be regretted that the Census report does not give any data in regard to this cause.
Besides the diseases enumerated here, there are several pathologic conditions of the eyes which are hereditary--presenile cataract, stationary night blindness, and retinitis pigmentosa.
Nephritis is likely to manifest itself in pregnancy earlier than toxemia; albuminuric retinitis is commoner in nephritis, but these facts are no real help in differentiation.
When albuminuric retinitis occurs, the medical tendency is to empty the uterus.
I saw a case of albuminuric retinitis ten years ago, which could not have been worse.
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