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Show 4 YOUR HEALTH BY DR, R. H. BISHOP SPLEEN, Men and animals survive tho surgical sur-gical removal of the spleen without apparent serious detriment, which removes re-moves this organ from the list of In dlsp, ns.i hi" structures, says tho Journal Jour-nal of tho American Medical association associa-tion Tho spleen Is Intimately associated with tho digestive apparatus and is known to change in size during the process of digestion, hence It has been often supposed that this organ aots as an "abdominal heart" for supplying supply-ing blood to the stomach and other viscera when needed. Recently It has been allogod that removal of tho spleen diminishes tho digestive power of the- stomach ami that certain gastric functions can bo again prompted only through lnjf ' -tlonH of extracts of the spleen. According to the American Journil of Medical Sciences. Inlow of tho Mayo Foundation put this problem to the test of experiment by studying the gastrn sfi'i'etu.n of animals under un-der carefully eontrolled conditions before be-fore and after tho remjoval of the spleen. Ho failed to find the sngntest evidence evi-dence that the spleen gives to tho blood stream during digestion a substance sub-stance which leads to tho further elaboration of tho gastric Juices Tho only noteworthy e hange In gastric secretion after removal ef tho spleen was a slight diminution In tho quantity quan-tity of gastric julco secreted. Inlow contends that this Is duo to doe rca.xed gastrh blood supply w hich Is only a natural result of removing an organ, the wound from which has not yet healed. Although this Is a negative conclusion, still many scientific scien-tific truths have been thus learned. Undoubtedly there Is much yet to bo learned about this organ oo Watermelon Is f2 9 water. |