Word: hemophilia
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...certainly tragic that all King Alfonso's sons should be practically invalids. Of course the bad blood comes through Queen Victoria of Spain's father, Prince Henry of Battenberg, who was a Hesse-Darmstadt like Empress Alexandra of Russia, and her only son, Tsarevitch Alexis, had hemophilia as Crown Prince Alfonso has. Also Queen Victoria of Spain's two brothers were both delicate and died young, Prince Maurice and Prince Leopold of Battenberg, only her eldest brother Alexander (now Marquess of Carisbrooke in England) is alive. Gossip in Europe says that the healthy members of King Alfonso...
Under the section of MEDICINE, Oct. 19, Page 34, you list several mistakes made by the press. In the next column in discussing hemophilia, notice you have a mistake in spelling "thromboplastin...
...lesion of a blood vessel, the blood issuing from the wound tends to clot, preventing further loss of blood. In certain persons this quality of the blood is absent, so that if they suffer even a slight wound they may readily bleed to death. The disease is known as hemophilia...