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Lienes tumidi fi illis non veniant fan- 
guinis eruptiones et oris graveolentia defi- 
nunt in ulcera prava tibiarum et turpes 
cicatrices.” 
This fame obfervation has been made 
afterwards by many others, but no phy- 
fician till now imagined, that a bad fecre- 
tion of the fpleen was the caufe of that 
dillemper. 
This fecretion is not made except where 
this vifcus is enlarged, and, as Hippocrates 
properly obferves, fwollen. 
If the fpleen is enlarged from obftruc- 
tions, fehirrofities, tubercles, or abfcefles, 
then there is not any fecretion, and we 
find, under thefe circumftances, the patient 
has not the fymptoms which we have at* 
tributed to it. 
Thefe fymptoms in general difappear 
when an evacuation happens, by which 
alfo the fpleen regains its former bulk. 
They do not likewife make their appear¬ 
ance if the evacuation is continual. 
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