The origin of disease : especially of disease resulting from intrinsic as opposed to extrinsic causes : with chapters on diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment . •V-v^- c# .#/ Fig. 94.—Cystic Spleen, (x 50.) From a man forty-eight years old who died of heart disease and pulmonary membranes separating the cysts are in places distinctly fibrous. The arteries arethickened. Fig. 94-. THE SPLEEN. 119 start. Similar folding and adhesions occur in the liver, but they areapt to be less deep, for the liver is very hard, while the spleen is a softorgan. In the chapters on the heart and liver i
The origin of disease : especially of disease resulting from intrinsic as opposed to extrinsic causes : with chapters on diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment . •V-v^- c# .#/ Fig. 94.—Cystic Spleen, (x 50.) From a man forty-eight years old who died of heart disease and pulmonary membranes separating the cysts are in places distinctly fibrous. The arteries arethickened. Fig. 94-. THE SPLEEN. 119 start. Similar folding and adhesions occur in the liver, but they areapt to be less deep, for the liver is very hard, while the spleen is a softorgan. In the chapters on the heart and liver it has been shown that cystsare found in the heart, and that they are probably less rare in theliver than is commonly believed. It was suggested that they mayoriginate in the capillaries in the liver, and not, as is generally taught,in the bile-ducts, and it was pointed out that in the heart there are nopre-existing ducts or cavities in which true cysts could arise exceptthe blood-vessels and lymphatics. The same obtains in regard to thespleen : there are no ducts or cavities for true cysts to arise in exceptthe blood-vessels and lymphatics, and, as disease and dilatations ofblood-vessels are well known to be common, while comparatively littleis known of disease of lymphatics, it would seem much more likelythat a cyst in the spleen had had its origin in a blood-vessel thanin a lymph
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