HEMOPHILIA

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Inasmuch as the active etiology of hemophilia remains one of the unsolved mysteries of medicine, and inasmuch as medical science affords us no remedial agent which will permanently eradicate the disease, the investigations to be recorded were undertaken with the hope that some new information with rrence to the cause of the remarkably slow coagulreference to the cause of the remarkably slow coagulative property of the blood in hemophilia might be provided. The opportunity to conduct these investigations came to us by reason of the death of a 6 year old lad, who presented the classical family history of this disheartening affection. He had been admitted to the pediatric service of the Mount Sinai Hospital of Philadelphia on several occasions. Each time profuse hemorrhage had followed the slightest trauma to skin or mucosa. Usually he bled from the tongue, mouth or lips—the result of teeth bites from falls. The slightest

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