On the essence of some forms of hemorrhagic diathesis

Hemorrhagic diathesis is a collective term. It includes hemophilia, Verlhof's disease, Schnlein-Henoch's disease and scorbutus. Bleeding is something common that unites these diseases, different in their clinical manifestations and, undoubtedly, in their pathogenesis. It is true that due to the development of the teaching of vitamins, scorbutus has fallen out of the purview of hematologists and is now closely related to problems of nutrition. Nevertheless, every clinical case of bleeding, especially accompanied by bleeding gums and spontaneous bruising, always makes the clinician first of all exclude scorbutus and then focus his attention on other forms of hemorrhagic diathesis.