Monilethrix in three generations

Monilethrix.

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Three Generations

as my father and grandfather were also members of our great profession I thought I would try and look at life as it was since 1846 when my grandfather obtained his qualificationi of L.R.C.S. in Edinibuirgh, inci(denltally he was Presi(lent of this Society in 187576. During that early period what great names were brought before the students. Moses, the first great doctor in Egypt, laid down laws...

Monilethrix

MONILETHRIX, or "beading of the hair" (Fig. 1)* is a rare inherited abnormality in the formation of hair. It was first reported by Smith (1879) and named by' Crocker. The cohdition; is cotnnfonly fa-milial, although isolated non-familial cases have been recorded;-The scalp'hAir is' usually affected, biut many patients showing monilethrix of the pubic and axillary hair and of the eyebrows and ey...

Ovarian dysgerminoma in three generations?

Buphthalmos over Three Generations.

Case Reports Case 1, a female child (IV, 3 in Pedigree) born on December 23, 1958, was noticed to have opaque corneae, of sufficient degree to prevent any estimate of the size of the pupils. There was corneal oedema but no appreciable abnormality of the corneal diameter. In the course of a few days the cornea of each eye had become obviously enlarged and a definite buphthalmos had become establ...