The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-06-14
New Jersey Man is Suffering
From .Hemop hlia.
sTRANGEsT DISEASE KNOWN TO MEDICINE
UNTIL FEW DAYS AGO FRITZ
STEINBRENNERS WAS WELL
AND HEARTY.

NEW YORK, June 14.-Suffering
from a strange form of one of the
+ ritz Steinbrenner, of Carlsbad, N. j.
is exuding blood from the pores of his
skin as other men would perspiration
and, although in the last few days he
has lost a large proportion of the av-
erage human supply of the vital fluid,
he trampel about yesterday in the rain
and insisted upon doing his work as
if nothing had happened.
Until a few days ago Steinbrenner
was strong and healthy man. He is
short and heavily built, and in the
fifty years of his life had never con-
tracted any serious disease.
On Thursday last, however, he had a
severe hemOrrhage of the mouth, and
this was followed by bleeding in var1-
Gus parts of the body. At one moment
he felt what he thought was perspira-
ton on his forehead, but when he
tried to wipe it away he found his
brow bathed in blood. AS he lowered
his arms the blood dripped from his
sleeves and also his feet.
DR.. John Riordan recognized the dis
ease as hemophilia, but said he had
never seen it in this form before. Hem
ophilia is described in medical books
as condition in which a patient shows
a tendency to bleed profusely.
In ordinary cases of this rare disease
the bleeding only occurs after cut
ting of the skin has been made. 1t is
all but unknown in medical lore for a
hemophilitic patient to start bleeding
spontaneously and to exude as Stein
brenner does.
There was nothing that DR.. Riordan
could suggest except to abstain from
all stimulants and to keep in a low
however. has very little effect upon
Steinbrenner. He has been bleeding
and under all conditions of heat and
cold
stream from some point in his body
and again practically the whole sur
face is lightly bathed.
In spite of the dangerous loss he
has suffered the most careful examin-
alton fails to reveal any symptoms of
organic disease. His appetite is good
and he sleeps well. That he inherited
the condition is the only theory put
forth.
1T is the strangest case that can
possibly be imagined" said DR.. Rior-
dan yesterday. "Hemophilia is gener-
ally only shown when cut is made
or a tooth pulled or the like. But in
this remarkable case no initial OPEN
ing of the skin is necessary. 1 can
only explain the case in this way:
Steinbrenner has always possessed this
tendency to bleed, but fortunately has
never been hurt in any way to show
it. Lately he has used considerable
alcoholic stimulants, and this has had
the tendency to open the small vessels
under the skin until they could hold
the blood back from the surface no
longer. There are some cases like it
in medical history, but they are of the
rarest."
That Fritz Steinbrenner should de-
velop some strange disease, or do any
other unusual thing, is not surprising
to his fellow townspeople. For the
past ten years he has lived the most
eccentric of lives. When his wife, to
whom he was devoted died, he was
prosperous, living in his own house
Since then he has been tending horses.
He is accustomed to sleeping in trees,
and many times has had to be chopped
out of a snowbank in which he had
made his bed. Once he was found
thus and pronounced dead, but while
the coroner was viewing the body"
he thawed out and went home. His
strange habits seem to do him no in
jury, but they may account in some
way for the disease that has develop
ed.
Gal