The vascular arrangements of the spleen.

The purpose or this, investigation was first, to clear up certain obscure anatomical points with reference to the vascular arrangements of the spleen,and finally to study its mechanism of phagocytosis.HISTORICAL. Our knowledge of the anatomy ot the sp1een dates, from Malpighi (1686) who discovered in the spleen of the ox, the lymph fo11ic1es which bear his name and the stigmata or openings in the venous sinuses. Ten years later, Ruysch (1.696) found that the terminal arteries of the human spleen are long and straight and do not anastomose. He called them, penicil1i, from their resemblance to pencils or fine brushes. [...