OF THE SPLEEN. 109 



the urine if the spleen had been removed before the experiment : 

 so that the burner of John Hunter's manuscripts abandoned 

 what he had before advanced as a discovery, and regarded the 

 spleen rather as a secreting organ, and its large and numerous 

 lymphatic vessels, running to the thoracic duct, as supplying the 

 place of an excretory canal. 



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