Hemophilia, with report of an aggravated case / by John L. Masters.

  • Masters, John L.
Date:
[1900]
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Credit: Hemophilia, with report of an aggravated case / by John L. Masters. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ta/nCK^ WOO, jT 307 — 3i3 t£>. The Medical and Surgical Monitor. SAMUEL E. EARP, M. S., M D., Managing: Editor. \&\ DEPARTMENT EDITORS: Allison Maxwell, M. D. . . General Medicine. JOSEPH EaSTMAN, M. D., L.L-D t^..WGBRXrtL^ / Thomas B. Eastman, A.B., M. D Gynecology and Obstetrics. John L. Masters, M. D Eye and Ear. ^ jr In the department of Original Communications no effort will be spared to obtain articles both authoritative and practical. An earnest invitation is extended to the members of the profession to assist in making this depart- ment interesting instructive and indispensable. While some space will be given to matters specula- tive, it is desirable that contributors limit themselves, as much as possible, to the details of personal observation and experience. The editors assume no responsibility for the views of contributors. HEMOPHILIA, WITH REPORT OF AN AGGRAVATED CASE. BY John L. Masters, M. D. Professor of Diseases of the Eye and Ear, Central College of Physicians and Surgeons, Indianapolis. who were similarly afflicted. But there are cases in which it is impossible to find any history of parental bleeding. Such spontaneous cases are often the origin of bleeder families. Males are much more frequently bleeders than females. The proportion is,as great as 11 to 1 or 13 to 1. The tendency to transmission is very marked and can often be traced through several gener- ations. The most frequent mode of transmission is from an afflicted father to a (laughter, who escapes, but whose sons suffer, her daughters escaping, but they transmit the tendency to their sons. The bleeding tendency shows itself in the first year of life in more than 50 per cent, of bleeders, and it rarely appears after the twelfth year. There is nothing especial in the way of temperament, constitution, etc., to mark bleeders so they may be known before a hemorrhage appears; neither does it attack any special race, class or condition of society. Attention has been called to the great fertility of bleeders. There is usually nothing to call attention to the patient as a bleeder until a hemor- rhage, spontaneous or traumatic, occurs, which is arrested with great diffi- culty. This first hemorrhage occurs, as a rule, before the fifth year. The