MYSTERIOUS DISEASE.

Colonist, Volume LIV, Issue 13456, 29 June 1912, Page 3

MYSTERIOUS DISEASE.

Tho current number of' tho "Clirop.iqiio Medicale^ of P.ar:s tolls of a strange infirmity which is. prevalent in the Swisr. village of Tenna, : in tl:c canton of Grisons. It appears that the majority of the inhabitants of Trui'i^. are'what'is locally, known as "Blutoi\" that is, "men who bleed." What with ordinary persons is a-tiny'scratch or tho prick of a needle, and such as goes unnoticed, is for them a source of serious danger. They immediately suffer a hemorrhage, and "it is almost impossible to stop the bleeding. It ia said that the disease is hereditary. No mean? has yet been discovered to combat the affliction, and it is for this reason that a number of French, doctors have begun seriously to examine the malady v They have established one very curious 'fact —that-it is only the men who are liable- .to this strange attack of hemorrhage. A mother.communicator., ifc to her sons, but never to her daughters. Up to the present no explanation has been found and tho "blutcf" remains a medical myjstery. -,■■■■'