A Brief Account of Splenectomy with a Case of Simple Hypertrophy of the Spleen Treated by Operation
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Amongst Greek and Roman athletes it was commonly supposed that the presence of the spleen was a hindrance to their power of running, and they used certain drugs which were thought to have the effect of diminishing or dissolving the organ. With the same object Hippocrates advised the application of a preparation of mushrooms. In support of this supposed influence of the spleen some surgeons sprang into notoriety about 1700 from their operations of removing the milt or spleen?" unmilting," as it was then
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