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Credit: Three new pedigrees of eye disease / Nettleship. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![Reprinted from th- ' Ophthalmologieal Society's Transactions’ Vol. XXVIII, 1908. Senile cataract in husband and wife; condition of the lenses in their children and grandchildren. By E. Nettleship. In this case (Kig. 18) II, 2 the wife, ami II, 3 the husband, were each jet. 21 years when they married ; neither they nor their respective parents were consanguineous in any degree. They had 10 children (III, 5 to 16) of whom 9 are living, and 33 grand-children (IV, 1 to 33) of whom 26 are living. Of this total of 2 + 10 + 33 = 45 we know the condition of the lenses in 36 and the interest of the pedigree centres in them; 8 of the 45 died without any record as to their eyes, and 1 (IV, 30) living in New Zealand cannot be examined. The account of the 36 who have been examined is as follows: II, 2, of Irish birth, was the elder of two; she had excellent sight till past 50 when she took to glasses for reading; was operated upon for senile cataract by myself at Moorfields Hospital in October, 1891 (I. P., 1891, No. 1556) when she was 72; she did well and lived to be 82; she wjis 22 when her first child was born. Her younger sister (II, 1) died at about 45 with good sight; her father (I, 2) died at the age of 28 in or about 1826 at Tottenham, where several of the descendants still reside; he had some brothers or sisters (I, 3) who 1 k *i7**is i1-3, aboo1 j „ ^ * ‘ 10,4, ** . pD * \ j, ^ -n * * otheis seem to have ud cataract btf t>< W II. 4 ind 9 are alite and atv and 11 died it aUnt the «■! y good bit ah lit t! ilforaaiM. Thf ]<an T t» Ifc I, I and b both died co» itb good sight. II, 2 »d 3 had 10 children ^•incesWdtrlbur ,I[,5. tale, seen W K. tii’, }+ 1> fwaale, - :4 10*.‘^il- -v L , * '■* i.ifcl ■ **»*. %(L. '>'u. *](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22431196_0006.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
