Cyclopaedia of the Practice of Medicine, Vol. 17: General Anomalies of Nutrition, and Poisons (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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With the exception, however, of these few Older reports, our knowledge of haemophilia as a specific form Of the hemorrhagic diseases is entirely an acquisition of modern times; in fact, it cannot be truly said to have commenced until the present cen tury. To be sure, towards the close of the last century Fordyce (1784) gave an account of a hemorrhagic disposition noticed by him in several individuals belonging to the same family circle'. The disposition being therefore probably of an hereditary Charac ter; and soon afterwards other families of bleeders were reported in' Germany (westphalia) by a writer in the Medicinischen Ephemeriden, published at Chemnitz and by Rave Still, for some years these articles attracted but little attention, and no general interest was excited in Europe until after a series of cases had been reported in American journals. The first of these American articles appeared in the Medical Repository of New York, and contained an account by Otto of a widespread bleeder family, in which the disease could be traced back for nearly a hundred years. Three other bleeder families are re ferred to, Observed by Rush and Boardley. The word bleeder was here first used. This epoch-making article was soon-fol lowed by others: one by Coxe and Smith1 another by Hay (1813) Of the large bleeder family appleton-brown, and finally, in 1817, another report of a bleeder family by Buel. These cases, in addition to those reported by Fordyce and his immediate German successors, and some other Observations published by Consbruch (l. C.) in 1810, now afforded for the first time sufficient material for a systematic description of the disease.

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