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Concept

Spleen

Images

  • 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.
  • 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.
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Catalogue

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    Commentatio physiologica de functione lienis / auctore Goëthius Stinstra.

    Stinstra, Goëthius. | Date: 1859
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    De milt, beschouwd in hare structuur en hare physiologische betrekking tot het ligchaam / door A. Sasse.

    Sasse, A. | Date: 1855
    • Archives and manuscripts

    Biliary cirrhosis 1905

    | Date: 1898-1948 | Reference: PP/FPW/B.38/1
    Part of: Parkes Weber, Frederick (1863-1962)
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    The spleen and hypersplenism / William Dameshek & Solomon Estren.

    Dameshek, William, 1900-1969. | Date: 1947
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    Possible relations of the weight of the lungs and other organs to body-weight and surface area (in dogs) / by G.N. Stewart.

    Stewart, G. N. (George Neil), 1860-1930. | Date: [1921?]
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