Word: bleeder
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According to common belief, only men can be victims as well as transmitters, and women can only be transmitters of hemophilia.* Common belief is almost, but not quite, true. By Mendelian laws of inheritance, the daughter of a father-bleeder and a mother-carrier can be a bleeder. Doctors believed that such a child would die in the womb. . The British doctors report that a patient of 24 who visited a Manchester clinic during her first pregnancy had a history of easy bruising and free bleeding. Nevertheless she had a natural delivery and went home ten days later. Then...
...patient's family tree shows clearly that she is the offspring of a father-bleeder and a mother-carrier. Her blood meets all the tests for true hemophilia. The doctors are sure that they have found a case to fit the classic Mendelian pattern. But they have no idea how she came to be born alive, or how she survived the hazards of growing up, menstruation and pregnancy...
...Another common belief, that hemophilia is "the curse of the Habsburgs," is unfounded. It was a lethal gift to the royal families of Europe from Britain's Queen Victoria. Of her four sons only the youngest, Leopold, was a bleeder, died at 31. But two of Victoria's daughters, Alice and Beatrice, carried the disease to their German offspring. Through one of Alice's daughters, it passed to the Czarevitch Alexis (murdered by the Bolsheviks in 1918); through Beatrice's daughter to sons of Spain's Alfonso XIII...
...Muse of History drew the Tsarevich to her, for he had become restless. "Poor little bleeder," she said, stroking his hair, "different only in the organic nature of your disease from so many others who have bled and died. In answer to your question, Madam," she said, glancing at the Tsarina, "I never permit my foreknowledge to interfere with human folly, if only be cause I never expect human folly to learn much from history...
...Muse of History drew the Tsarevich to her, for he had become restless. "Poor little bleeder," she said, stroking his hair, "different only in the organic nature of your disease from so many others who have bled and died. In answer to your question, Madam," she said, glancing at the Tsarina, "I never permit my foreknowledge to interfere with human folly, if only because I never expect human folly to learn much from history. Besides, I must leave something for my sister, Melpomene, to work...