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the whole left fide was filled up with the fpleén, enlarged to 
an enormous fize, and occupying the entire half of the cavity, 
from the diaphragm, which projected into the thorax, to the 
pelvis; it was neither difcoloured nor indurated, but natural 
in every refpect except fize. The veflels were not more than 
a third larger than in an ordinary fized fpleen. 
Wuewn this enormous vifcus- was taken out, it meafured 
-fourteen inches and a half long, and weighed eleven pounds 
thirteen ounces. I need hardly mention that the ufual length 
is about four inches, and the weight fix or eight ounces. 
The liver was fomewhat difcoloured and. difeafed, but not a 
fpoonful of water was contained in the abdomen. 
Tue evennefs and, foft texture of the vifcus on one fide, 
and the equability of the other from the diftended inteftines, 
joined to the facility with which fuch bodies would convey 
the idéus, when ftruck on the /eft fide (the ufual method, it 
being done by the operator’s right hand) might have deceived 
even an experienced furgeon; and had a perfon with fuch a. 
difeafe been tapped, the trocar muft have inevitably been 
plunged into the vifcus, and death (from hemorrhage) have 
enfued *. 
Tue ftomach was changed in pofition as well as {cite, lying 
more obliquely than horizontally ; and fo compreffed was it- 
between the liver and (this enlarged fpleen, that it required. 
very confiderable force to ciftend it. That part of the: colon. 
Vor. IV. Bb which 
* Such a circumftance did once happen in Edinburgh, and the wounded’ fpleen. is exbi-- 
bited by Dr. Monro in his le@tures. 
