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been drunk, the spleen was turgid and exhibited cells full of a 

 colourless liquid, which were at other times collapsed and almost 

 imperceptible, a circumstance rendering it unlikely that the 

 spleen is diminished in bulk by the distention of the stomach. 

 During the distention of the spleen, when the pylorus was not 

 tied, the rhubarb appeared more strongly in the blood of the 

 splenic than in that of other veins. If coloured solids without 

 fluids were introduced into the stomach, the cells of the spleen 

 were not distended, nor did this organ or its veins give more 

 signs of the colouring matter than others. 



