'An account of an hemorrhagic disposition existing in certain families'
'An account of an hemorrhagic disposition existing in certain families'
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DOI:
10.1046/j.1365-2516.1997.00050.x
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发表时间:
1997-04-01
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影响因子:
3.9
通讯作者:
Hilgartner, MW
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Hilgartner, MW
Dr Ingram's note on Mr Lane's reportThe blood of a stout young woman'published in the October 1995 issue of Haemophilia [1] brought to mind the® rst article written in America about haemophilia by John C. Otto of Philadelphia entitledAn account of a hemorrhage disposition existing in certain families' published in the Medical Repository in 1803. The Medical Repository printed in New York was a review of American Publications on Medicine, Surgery, and The Auxillary Branches of Science established by Samuel Latham Mitchill, MD and Edward Miller, MD. Dr Mitchill was a well-known physician on the sta of Columbia College in Natural History, Botany, Chemistry and Materia Medica and physician at The New York Hospital from 1796 to 1817. He was a man of diverse interests who published extensively in Philosophy and Science, was a US Senator, helped to frame the quarantine laws, and alter the import duties on rags, to improve andrender the manufacture of paper cheaper, to better aid the di usion of knowledge by printing'. Dr John Conrad Otto was born in Woodbury, New Jersey, 14 March, 1774, the son of an immigrant German physician who was an o cer in the Revolutionary Army [2]. He was educated at the College of New Jersey in Princeton, graduating in 1792, and studied medicine in Philadelphia under Dr Benjamin Rush, the foremost physician in the city at that time and professor of clinical medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. He obtained his MD degree in 1796 and worked in the Pennsylvania Dispensary until Dr Rush's death in 1813 when he was appointed to the sta of the Pennsylvania Hospital [3]. In this later position, he became known as a forceful and clear writer and clinical teacher. The Shephard family presented Dr Otto in this article pertaining to a haemorrhagic disposition in certain families are the descendants of a woman named Smith who settled in Plymouth, New Hampshire, in the 1729s [4]. The paper presents multiple therapeutic attempts for haemostasis during bleeding episodes in those male members of the families with the haemorrhagic disposition. The most e ective therapeutic measure was to sulphate of soda given in theordinary purging doses administered two or three days in succession. An attempt to explain the mode of operation of this valuable remedy might give birth to much speculation. As the prescription was in the possession of the Shephard family, the cases that were seen by a physician were rare and, therefore, correct conclusions as to its manner of acting could not be made'. However, accurate observations were made concerning the genetic inheritance of thebleeders', and their good health in between their haemorrhagic episodes. Although this is the® rst paper in the US medical literature documenting the disease, the four families documented from di erent parts of the country, states of Maryland, Pennsylvania and New Hampshire, illustrates a multiple family origin of the disease. The potential family relationship of the founder from Maine whose family had FIX de® ciency to the Smith family in New Hampshire cannot be negated at the present time. However, a relationship would seem unlikely as FVIII is more prevalent in other states in this country. Dr Otto seems to have developed a keen interest in this bleeding diathesis as he published a second paper in 1805 in which he detailed the history of four fatal cases of hereditary haemorrhage occurring in the family of Benjamin Binny of Maryland.