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Show ,: ML Pleasant Child Is ' 'I Victim Of Rare Disease jhn Znbr.sk.e of Ml. 1 Usnnt, made a game fight for his . life this week ,n a bait Lake hospital, doctors attempted to stem the course of a rare blood aucmpuea to disease from which the child is euf-faring. euf-faring. Called hemophelia, the disease occurs only in the male species and is characterized by intractable bleeding from a scratched or cut-''; cut-''; open surface or by prolonged internal in-ternal bleeding. Extreme loss of ii' blood occurs to persons Buffering ! from the disease because clots do ,'N not form in a normal manner to : stop the flow of blood. Earl Zabriskie's case as diag- nosed as hemophelia Saturday by a local physician when examination examina-tion showed profuse internal bleeding. bleed-ing. He had showed signs of the puzzling disease on previous occasions, occa-sions, the doctor said. Nearest medical center where supplies and equipment necessary to special treatment of hemophelia are obtainable ie in Salt Lake, where Earl was rushed early this week. Hemophelia is the same disease which afflicted male members of the famous House of Bourbon, ruling house of Spain until the 1930's when King Alphonso was deposed by the republic. |