Salt Lake Telegram | 1930-03-17 | Page 11 | Oldtime Idea About Function of Spleen Nearly Correct

V DAILY HEALTH 4 I Idea About Function I I of Spleen Nearly 1 Correct T By DR MORRIS MORUS FISHBEIN V Editor Journal oj the American Medical Association and of Hype u Th Th Tb Health Hult Magazine Magazin Several hundreds 1 of years Icam's ago the tIme term was nn u used d to indicate anger aner or The poet Joet Pope Popo spoke 1 oko of spleen pl en and amid our sour dl disdain Shakespeare 10 used l th the term to T refer Ctr to lo any l type ot- ot of A thousand spleens bear her a n. thousand ways wan he wrote Until r recently no rio one ono had bad an any real conception il of or th the functions of ot the org organ n call called d the timO In I 1 1925 ns two t American Investigators ant and amid Maun made studies of the effects of oC a 3 number er of or on th time the spleen V When hen the lie animal is subjected to certain emotions to which It re responds ye- ye with muscular effort cOtt the thc spleen contracts Whenever r ex cx- ex exercise Is taken time the spleen COlt con con- tracts Tho to special nature o of the time emotions do does s not seem seem to make o much Ii difference Apparently when tho the animal Is IR adrenalin is Iii secreted l by Up its adrenal gland and antl tho the n nerves nerve's r cs controlling controlling- the tue spleen are stimulated d to cause it to cont con con- t tract me t. t Dr Joseph Barcroft of ot the physiological of ot Carll Carn- Carn bridge of England hati ban recently supplemented s hits his ob ob b That the thill emotions deceit eh affect th tho size ot of the was as revealed In th him tho following follow follow- III lug ing j experiment 4 A dog o named Dimple hind had dc- dc habit of chasing any army cat In iii tho the neighborhood If Ie the therlo dog Ply Jay on a table labia and a. a duster was as hel held in front of ot H Its nose nos the remained unaltered J If H the time first t duster uter was r removed rno and another another an au- an- an other which pad iad been In a II b basket with a 1 cat cal was isas held In front of oC the lie dogs dog's nose the spleen of ot Dimple Dim Dim- 1 pIt would contract contract- appreciably This was S 'S ob observable er ablo even en though nono none nono of ot the lime muscles of or tIm tho dog moved moved Th Then 11 if it tho ho cat Sn in tho the next room moved td the this dogs dog's ears would woul bo be pricked ui it tt ti head bead anI and nd eyes CR would i 5 and amid the spleen n would contract contract con con- tract still further 11 It the tIme cat enl were placed In itt front of or the hue dos dog o the time d dogs dog's s 's legs and amid bod body would move o a and th spleen would contact con cou tract tact further l' l If the do dog chased the lie cat even o for fot a quarter of a n minute minute min min- ute tite there would be e still more moore contraction con con- traction V VOne Ono One of oC the time oldest tories glories in Ined ha to tn 4 do with t the lie great a t anatomist who asked ono one ct ci his lila about the Limo function unction of the time N NI V I 1 knew knes' said the time s student ui nt but bui ut t forgot Unfortunate Jn milan man n said ald you Were o the only one who Jm knOts knew w. w timid and now you OU have hwe forgotten n. n V Alter 4 th the nie of ot almost one onehundred hundred h years ears the ph physiologists lt have v begun llIn to find tho the answer Tho Tho spleen seems mac t tobo be largely Iy concerned con con- in iii controlling the time y volume lumo of ot blood circulation In the time body Upon the volume depends the tue decO blood pressure anI and amid the time general tone tonco o of the body Now ow we can begin b gln to understand how tow a. a pelson person can cami got get pale when ho lie gets ets r ans-r how he can ron get gel mad s he will wll fah faint t aiva away And AntI what made tho tim writers of or hundreds hundred of years ago agoa a associate the spleen with emotions