# April 17: World Hemophilia Day - Provide your pearls of wisdom

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### 🧬 **How Hemophilia Was Discovered:**

#### 📜 **Early Historical References:**

- **2nd Century AD** : The first known description of a bleeding disorder resembling hemophilia appears in **Jewish texts** , where certain boys from a family were exempt from circumcision due to excessive bleeding in relatives.
- **10th Century** : Arabic physician **Albucasis (Al-Zahrawi)** described a family where males died from bleeding after minor injuries — another early sign of hemophilia.

#### 👑 **“Royal Disease”:**

- Hemophilia became widely known in the 19th century as the **“Royal Disease”** because it affected the descendants of **Queen Victoria of England**.
  - She was a **carrier of hemophilia B** and passed it on to several royal families of Europe, including Spain, Germany, and Russia.
  - The most famous case: **Tsarevich Alexei Romanov** (son of the last Russian Tsar), who suffered from hemophilia.

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