. Transactions . th comfort, but after prolonged usethey become red find irritable. He does not think liissiglit is any worse tluin it was ten oi- fifteen years ago,and he is still a])l( to do his work ns \v(»ll as ever. When1 first examined him it was inqiossible t(j get any view of olAriTIKS OK COKNKA l\ FATHER A\F) 1-3 the eyes on accoinit of tlic intolerance of li^lit ; I got Ijinito come eaily in tlio nioi-nin^f, niid found iIk? same con-dition in the cornea as is present in the daughters eyes,but the nodules appeared to be arranged in the form ofshort lines, which cro
. Transactions . th comfort, but after prolonged usethey become red find irritable. He does not think liissiglit is any worse tluin it was ten oi- fifteen years ago,and he is still a])l( to do his work ns \v(»ll as ever. When1 first examined him it was inqiossible t(j get any view of olAriTIKS OK COKNKA l\ FATHER A\F) 1-3 the eyes on accoinit of tlic intolerance of li^lit ; I got Ijinito come eaily in tlio nioi-nin^f, niid found iIk? same con-dition in the cornea as is present in the daughters eyes,but the nodules appeared to be arranged in the form ofshort lines, which crossed each other, forming a kind (Anetwork. The surface epithelium was distinctly raisedabove each portion of the deposit. The father, who is an Italian, had a brother whosesight was good for reading, but who never had been ableto see at a distance with any glass : the symptoms presentin the brother were just the same as tliose experienced byhimself. Hfc had also a sister whose eyes were peculiiii* in the Fig. same way. The last time he was in l^ome he wished togive her an opera-glass, but she found it was of no use to lier. Although neither of these patients have been seen, it isprobable that tlie affection of the eyes was the same inthem, as their symptoms are almost identical. Tlu* con-dition is not an inflammatory one ; it is probably a slowlyprogressive degeneration due to the deposit of patliologicalmaterial in the anterior part of the cornea. The cases that have been examined have been very found crystals of urate of soda in his found hyaline deposits. Fuchs, who i-emoved apieci> of cornea by trephine, found changes in thelamella} in the anterior part of tlie substantia propriaof an ocdematous nature. Howmans membrane wasabsent. The nodules caused a rising of the e]nthelium, 44 DISEASES OF THE CORNEA. partly counteracted by a reduction in the number oflayers; the nodules contained broken-up lamellas anddistorted nuclei, and granular am
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