. Journal of the Medical Society of New Jersey. oft consistence as I had found inthe left eye. Six days later the anterior cham-ber was nearly filled with lens matter which wasevacuated through an incision in the upper partof the cornea. The lens matter removed wasexamined miscroscopically immediately after itsremoval and was found to contain very muchcholesterin. At the present writing vision is inright eye with +15. D. 6/8; in the left eye with+ D. 6/8. He reads best with +5. D. Theophthalmoscope shows normal eyeground. ex-cent a small ill-defined atrophic crescent on thetemporal side o
. Journal of the Medical Society of New Jersey. oft consistence as I had found inthe left eye. Six days later the anterior cham-ber was nearly filled with lens matter which wasevacuated through an incision in the upper partof the cornea. The lens matter removed wasexamined miscroscopically immediately after itsremoval and was found to contain very muchcholesterin. At the present writing vision is inright eye with +15. D. 6/8; in the left eye with+ D. 6/8. He reads best with +5. D. Theophthalmoscope shows normal eyeground. ex-cent a small ill-defined atrophic crescent on thetemporal side of the optic papilla. The very descriptive term, coralliform. forthis form of cataract was first used by Mr. Mar-cus Gunn, who presented a case of this form ofcataract to the Ophthalmoscopical Society of theUnited Kingdom. London, on March 14, description of the case with an excellent illus-tration is found in the Transactions of this So-ciety for 1895. p. 119. The picture is so muchlike that of my own case that I have reproducedit By Knies the opacities have been comparedto the sails of a windmill. Other cases havebeen reported by I. Herbert Fisher (Transac-tions of the Ophthalmoscopical Society of theUnited Kingdom. 1905, p. 90) and by SydneyStephenson (loc. cit.) 1906, p. 72. 23§ Journal of the Medical Society of New Jersey. 1909. In both Grtinns and Fishers cases there wasa strong family tendency to cataracts. In theRoyal London Ophthalmic Hospital Reports,Vol. p. 217, under the head of other varie-ties of Familial Congenital Cataract. E. Nettle-ship says: Next to lamellar cataracts one ofthe best marked varieties is the peculiar andapparently rare form called axial or spindle cat-aract by the Germans or, to use Mr. MarcusGunns term, coralliform cataract, in which theopacity appears from the history to have beenpresent quite early in life, if not actually at birth,and remains like the lamellar form almost sta-tionary, seldom becoming complete. By f
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