Who discovered hemophilia?

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Hemophilia was recognized, though not named, in ancient times. The Talmud, a collection of Jewish Rabbinical writings from the 2nd century AD, stated that male babies did not have to be circumcised if two brothers had already died from the procedure.

The Arab physician Albucasis, who lived in the 12th century, wrote of a family whose males died of bleeding after minor injuries.

Then, in 1803, a Philadelphia physician named Dr. John Conrad Otto wrote an account of "a hemorrhagic disposition existing in certain families". He recognized that the condition was hereditary and affected males. He traced the disease back through three generations to a woman who had settled near Plymouth, New Hampshire, in 1720.

The word "hemophilia" first appears in a description of the condition written by Hopff at the University of Zurich in 1828.

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