Show PHYSIOLOGICAL PUZZLE The pleen Has Caused Considerable Speculation London News The spleen of old writes Dr Andrew Wilson formed an organ I which puzzled the classic physiologists I did not seem to manufacture any secretion se-cretion like the liver or sweetbread and they knew as we do today that the removal re-moval of the organ is not necessarily attended at-tended by much disturbance of the vital functions fact due to the duties of the missing spleen being laid on the shoulders of the other organs probably the lymphatic lym-phatic glands The spleen Is undoubtedly a blood gland 1 Is the seat of manufacture manufac-ture of the corpuscles of the blood red and white and it no doubt disposes of the old rolling stock of the blood dissolving dissolv-ing and disintegrating the wornout corpuscles cor-puscles Additional evidence regarding the spleen has been supplied by Professor Schafer F R S and Mr B Moore They have proved that the spleen acts as a kind of safety valve to the blood circulation and It responds at once to all variations In the blood pressure whether these variations va-riations are from heart or lungs It is an organ which shows rhythmical contractions contrac-tions and would appear to be a kind of delicate governor analogical In Its nature na-ture to the selfacting mechanic of that name In the steam engine |