ABSTRACT
318Gentlemen: Those following my clinical work have surely noticed that there is a frequency of special diseases which attract attention due to the numerous circumstances in which they are observed. I want to talk about phlegmasia alba dolens. You do remember that we have studied together the white painful edema not only in women with recent parturition but more often in patients of both sexes affected with pulmonary phthisis or internal cancerous tumors. This is a rare example of generalized intravenous coagulation in the four limbs. What are the conditions where blood acquired this tendency of spontaneous coagulation? You know gentlemen, in cachetic states in general, tuberculosis and cancer cachexia in particular, the blood is modified…
