Author: Westerlund, Erik
Title: Clinical and Genetic Studies on the Primary Glaucoma Diseases
Description: Copenhagen, Nyt Nordisk Forlag, 1947. orig. wrappers. 23x15cm, 207 pp. University of Copenhagen doctoral dissertation.. Minor rubbing. Some page browning. VG. ¶ Series: Opera ex domo biologiae hereditariae humanae universitatis Hafniensis, 12. Contents: History & Systematology of Glaucoma Diseases; Pathogenesis of Infantile Glaucoma; Previous Works on Familial Occurence of Congenital Hydrophthalmos; Collecting & Sorting of Hydrophthalmos Material; Grouping of Material; Relation between Congenital Hydrophhalmos &other Congenital Defects; Sex Incidence; Uni- & Bilateral Cases; Significance of Congenital Hydrophthalmos as Cause of Blindness; Environmental Classification of Material; Significance of Intermarriage; Geografical Distribution; Incidence of Congenital Hydrophthalmos at Birth &in the Average population; Incidence of Congenital Hydrophthalmos in the Ophthalmic Department of the "Rigshospital"; Fertility of Patients with Congenital Hydrophthalmos; Analysis of Genetic Conditions; Case Records of Patients with Congenital Hydrophthalmos; Previous Works on Hereditary Glaucoma; Collecting of Glaucoma Cases; Incidence of Glaucoma in the Population; Symptomatology of Hereditary Glaucoma; Mode of Transmission of Hereditary Glaucoma; Relation between Congenital Hydrophthalmos & Adult Glaucoma; Relation between Hereditary & "Non-Hereditary" Intermittent Glaucoma & Glaucoma Simplex; Eugenics; Pedigrees & Case Histories of Glaucoma Patients.

Keywords: Glaucoma Diseases, Eye Disease, Ophthalomology, Heredity, Genetic, Genetics, Medicine, ,