AN OBSCURE DISEASE

Hokitika Guardian, 29 September 1925, Page 4

AN OBSCURE DISEASE

!•:vU)t:\'( !•; in a conn' cask. A IT'D I.AM), September -Jib (itie of the most ext-rtiordinary pieces ol coriohoraiivo evidence ever brought forward in an tiililiatiun case was given in He .Magistrate's Court, this a iternoon v, hen Mr K. ('. Cullen. S.M.. heard the depositions of a doetor as to a certain leaUlre of the eyes ol a el'.ild. the sail!" feature Icing not menble in a child of the sister of defendant, thi. I cing r."..a I •!•-" 1 as evidence ol identity t,f the alleged father in the case. Ihe (omlii ion. i-. remnikah'y rare, there being, according to the witness, only Idle;,'.'iPod in twenty- : ive years. Dr John S. Currie, visiting officer ol St .Mary's Homos, stated that while he was attending the girl he imlbed a peculiarity about the whites of the eves of the infant. In addition there were certain peculiarities in the shape of th" bead, lie examined the chili! eat fully and t’ en diagnosed the eon. ,i ll i., 11 . There i- no ("ibuieal name for tie disease, which was first discovered in Pon !,... Kddou ex. Since t iien v. itto ii in if.,- litej'at ms- ~i (Irem lii'ilaio. (■'rare*., Ccrmeii.v a a,! South America, and the number ~, cases in tweuiy-fivc years was in all Id'. '1 he preseni ease was of extreme rarity. Witness added that knowing that there was no siicli disease in the girl's family he would naturally expect to find il on tin father’s side. If a child of d'-lcndaut s si iter had the disease Im would say (li.it. there was a great j.rohability that tie id.ml v.a- lie father of the b-,by in the tire vet i.r-e. mot her. who -f:• i, •< 1 i! : at -1," knew l.a', a child o! dch'iiditlit’... six' T had blue v : il: s : : hi- exes. . xaclk hollar to tlie coin!iti, u in her baby. T! ,■ ini:,,; was i.rou • 1,1 into t mil ■fj <;■ ■ was adjournod until Oeloi~r p i , give defeiolaut's counsel an 0,c,0> ! unit v > ‘ consult authorilie:- li caab! . lihiji i.., (■]•,,ss-axamiue the medical wit uc ■*.