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From: "D. Spencer Hines" <>
Subject: Re: George Rex
Date: Fri, 1 Aug 1997 09:19:47 -1000


Tim Powys-Lybbe wrote:
>
> In message <>
> "C. Mason" <> wrote:
>
> > > (Except for the cases in which a female suffers from it, having gotten
> > > the nasty gene from both parents.)
> > >
> >
> > It is my understanding that NO female has suffered from hemophelia. The
> > recessive gene is carried thru the female line and the disease manifests
> > itself in her male offspring. It would appear that Victoria passed the
> > genetic propensity to her female offspring thru the third generation. I
> > also have NEVER heard of it being a symptom caused by the age of the
> > parents at gestation. If you have sources for your statments please
> > forward them.
>
> I remember meeting a family who had several hemophiliacs in their midst,
> "bleeders" they called themselves; one in particular was female. They were
> all very well aware of their problem should they suffer any cut. Not that I
> am a medic, of course, let alone done any examination of ther blood.
>
> --
> Tim Powys-Lybbe
> South Farm:
> A logical entity with a real conterpart but no address bar this.

It it not just cuts, but *falls* that can be problematic --- and often
fatal. Internal bleeding in the joints can become extremely painful and
disfiguring. Internal bleeding in vital organs can rapidly lead to
death

Such was the case with Queen Victoria's own son, Leopold, Duke of
Albany. He slipped and fell, at the Villa Nevada, in Cannes, France and
bumped his knee. Apparently he had also sustained a brain hemorrhage
that killed him --- at the age of 30 --- in 1884.

Tsarevich Alexis [son of Tsar Nicholas II and Tsarina Alexandra] also,
as an adventurous young boy, often had disastrous falls --- and
near-death experiences --- particularly from uncontrollable bleeding
[tourniquets are not very helpful] in his knee joints. Enter Rasputin,
stage left, to seek God's intervention and cure Alexis.
--

D. Spencer Hines---"When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever
remains, however improbable, must be the truth."---Sherlock Holmes---Sir
Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930)---"The Sign of Four" (1890), Chapter 6.

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