Schonlein, are credited with coining the term “haemorrhaphilia” for the condition, later shorted to “haemophilia.” Then in 1828, Friedrich Hopff, a student at the University of Zurich, and his professor Dr. Otto called the males “bleeders.” In 1813, John Hay published a paper in the New England Journal of Medicine proposing that affected men could pass the trait for a bleeding disorder to their unaffected daughters. He traced the disease back to a female ancestor living in Plymouth, New Hampshire, in 1720. In 1803, John Conrad Otto, a Philadelphia physician, was the first to publish an article recognizing that a hemorrhagic bleeding disorder primarily affected men, and ran in certain families.
Abulcasis, or Abu Khasim, a 10 th century Arabian physician, described families whose male relatives died from uncontrolled bleeding after trauma. The New Testament of the Bible mentioned a woman who had hemorrhaged for 12 years, before touching the hem of Jesus’ garment, when she was healed. The Talmud, a collection of Jewish rabbinical writings on laws and traditions, from the 2 nd century AD, stated that baby boys did not have to be circumcised if two of their brothers had previously died from the procedure. Incidences of excessive or abnormal bleeding were first recorded hundreds of years ago.
