Word: bleeder
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...constant danger. From minor injuries to any form of surgery, the least leak in his circulatory system may require massive plasma transfusions as doctors try to supply a lifesaving amount of a missing clot-promoting protein. But all too often, new blood or plasma cannot be pumped into a "bleeder" in sufficient quantity without risk of overloading his circulatory system. Some concentrates of the vital protein are available, but they are expensive. Now Stanford Physiologist Judith Graham Pool has developed a simple, cheap and effective method of concentrating the protein in so potent a form that small amounts can stop...
...prick me, do I not bleed?" asked Shakespearean Richard Burton, 38, paraphrasing Shylock. Burton does, frighteningly, for as he explained in Manhattan last week, he has suffered all his life from a mild form of "bleeder's disease," or hemophilia. Recently recruited by the National Hemophilia Foundation, he announced the formation of a Richard Burton Hemophilia Fund, with Wife Liz as chairman, to aid research on the disease...
Purple Danger. Fred Wallace had been a bleeder since birth. The absence of AHG (antihemophilic globulin) from his blood taught him early to live with danger. Every childhood spill, every bloody nose, was agonizingly slow to heal. The scrapes and scuff marks of a growing boy remained for weeks as ugly, purple discolorations under the skin. But Fred, like most hemophiliacs, survived all such crises. Then the disease caused other problems. Last spring, on a Sunday outing, Fred and his father had walked away from their parked car so that Fred might snap a picture. Inexplicably, the car started rolling...
...compact (5 ft. 3 in., 125 lbs.) Bassey has one of the fastest pairs of fists in boxing, but he is also a bleeder who cuts easily around the eyes. He lost two fights earlier in his career when cuts were opened up. Davey Moore. 25, a minister's son and ex-Golden Glover from Springfield, Ohio, was just the kind of fighter who spells bad news for Bassey-a rugged slugger with a darting left and a clubbing right. The fight crowd knew it, and Bassey was no better than even money at the opening bell...
...three of the other female hemophiliacs' families were British, all fitted the classic Mendelian inheritance pattern: a father-bleeder, a non-bleeding mother-carrier. One of the hemophiliac daughters successfully bore a child (TIME, July 16, 1951), but was later forced to undergo surgical removal of the uterus after she nearly bled to death...