Czarevitch An Invalid.

New York Times 100 years ago today, November 29, 1912:
Has One Skin Too Few — Belief That Me Will Not Live to be Czar.
By Marconi Transatlantic Wireless Telegraph to The New York Times.
    LONDON, Friday, Nov. 29— A correspondent of The Daily News says:
    "From an excellent authority I have been able to learn the facts regarding the health of the Czarevitch. He has one covering of skin too few, such as was the case with the late Duke of Albany. This skin deficiency is aggravated by the difficulty of confining the extravasation of blood in the groin region, which caused superficial inflammation extending to the top of the abdomen. This condition and the extreme slowness of diminution in the swelling points to much constitutional debility.
    "As regards the hip bone, it is not known yet whether the trouble is due to defective ossification or whether it threatens to be tubercular. It is declared that nothing points to danger to the boy's life and that the years of boyhood may bring better symptoms, but he has the extreme nervous activity often seen in children who are not destined to live long.
    "Any notion of thanksgiving, as some fervent loyalists desired, for his recovery has been severely suppressed. He is to be regarded as an invalid child, and in a vague way people have come to believe that the boy is not to be Czar, as inevitably follows the stories circulating of predictions of religious mystics and suchlike that Michael, the Czar's only brother, will reign. Michael is morganatically allied to the divorced wife of a Russian cavalry officer and has two children by her. He takes no part in political, military, or court activities."