CXCIV 



BOWMAN LECTURE. 



APPENDIX VIII. 



CORNEA. 



Reticular and Nodular Keratitis. 

 Description of Figs. 65-69. 



Fig. 65. Holmes Spicer, T.O.S., xxiv, p. 42 (1904), and later informa- 

 tion. 



I, 1 believed to have had good eyes ; I, 2 lived to 101, and is known to 

 have had perfect sight to the end. II, 3, second wife of II, 2, and her 

 brothers, II, 4 (number not recorded), said to have suffered in same way 

 as III, 4 and his daughter. II, 2 and his first wife, II, 1, and her 

 children, all had perfect eyes. Ill, 2, set. 65 years at record, probably 

 normal ; III, 3 probably affected, sight " peculiar " in same way as III, 4 , 

 and an opera glass was useless to her ; III, 4 seen by author, set. 50 years, 

 typical changes, eyes have been troublesome all his life ; III, 5 had 

 symptoms like those in III, 4, and on trying to enter the Navy failed to 



pass the sight test, he died at 30 ; III, 6 has never had any trouble with 

 his eyes. IV, 1, only child, seen by author at 23, characteristic changes, 

 no severe symptoms, and V. with slight M. As. corrected and in E. 

 and L., and appears to have been same for many years. 



Fig. 66. Freund, A.f.O., Ivii, p. 377 (1904), and Wien. Jclin. Woch., xix, 

 No. 5, 1906. Family 2 (Hermann). 



All marked " + " were examined by the author. The only ones 

 believed, or known, not to have the family disease are II, 5, who died 

 many years before the record ; III, 1, who died at 23, and is said to have 

 had " scrofulous inflammation of the eyes " ; and IV, 2 and 3, set. 10 and 

 6 years at record, and definitely stated by the author to have been free 

 from the disease at that time ; though not starred they were probably 



