Dr. Carroll Collins Lafleur Birch, 36, is an associate in internal medicine at the University of Illinois medical school. Recently she located a family of hemophiliacs, or bleeders, in southern Illinois. During 125 years and through six generations there have been 16 bleeders in that family. The living members provided an ideal group for research.
Hemophilia is a blood disease. The blood coagulates very slowly. A nosebleed may become a fatal hemorrhage. A chafed skin may ooze blood for weeks and weeks, until death ensues. Females never have true hemophilia, although some suffer...
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