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A surgeon applying a cautery iron to clearly defined points on a woman's lower abdomen (indicating spleen?). Pen drawing after a tenth century manuscript.

Dissections of diseased spleen: three figures. Chromolithograph by W. Gummelt, ca. 1897.

Of the spleen, its description and history, uses and diseases, particularly the vapors, with their remedy. Being a lecture read at the Royal College of Physicians, London, 1722. To which is added some anatomical observations in the dissection of an elephant / [William Stukeley].

The viscera, after Haller, showing the lobes of the liver, the stomach, the kidneys, the spleen, etc. Engraving by Benard, late 18th century.

Pancreas, liver, spleen without its membranes, intestines, lacteals etc. after Kulm, Reverholt, Bidloo, Ruysch, Peyer and Heister. Engraving by Benard, late 18th century.

Commentatio physiologica de functione lienis / auctore Goëthius Stinstra.

De milt, beschouwd in hare structuur en hare physiologische betrekking tot het ligchaam / door A. Sasse.

Biliary cirrhosis 1905

The spleen and hypersplenism / William Dameshek & Solomon Estren.

Possible relations of the weight of the lungs and other organs to body-weight and surface area (in dogs) / by G.N. Stewart.

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Commentatio physiologica de functione lienis / auctore Goëthius Stinstra.

De milt, beschouwd in hare structuur en hare physiologische betrekking tot het ligchaam / door A. Sasse.

Biliary cirrhosis 1905

The spleen and hypersplenism / William Dameshek & Solomon Estren.

Possible relations of the weight of the lungs and other organs to body-weight and surface area (in dogs) / by G.N. Stewart.