Show FUNCTION OF THE SPLEEN it Is if a stad of safety tr valve vale to the blood the spleen of old writes dr andrew wilson in the illustrated london news news formed an organ which puzzled the classic physiologists it did not seem to manufacture any secretion like the liver or sweetbread sweet bread and they knew as we do today to day that removal of the organ is not necessarily attended by much disturbance of the vital bunc lions a fact due to the duties of the missing spleen being laid on the ers of other organs most probably the lymphatic glands the spleen een is un a blood gland it is the seat of manufacture of the corpuscles corpus cles selm of the blood red and white and it no doubt also disposes of the old rolling stoel stock of the blood dissolving and disintegrating rat the workout corpuscles corpus cles additional eTi evidence dence regarding the spleen has been supplied by prof schafer F K R S and mr mr B moore they lave have proved that the spleen acts as a kind of safety valve to the blood circulation and it responds at once on to all variations in I 1 the blood pressure whether these variations aa are le from heart or lungs it is an organ n which shows rhythmical contractions tr actions ts and would appear to be a kind of delicate governor anite nature to the self acting mechanism of that name in the s steam tea m engine |