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Maingot's Abdominal Operations, 11th Edition
Chapter 43. The Spleen
Sections: Historical Background, Anatomy, Physiology, The Asplenic State, Rupture of the Spleen, Local Splenic Disorders, Hematologic Disorders, Secondary Hypersplenism, Myeloproliferative Disorders, Splenectomy, Splenorrhaphy, References.
Topics Discussed: pancreas and spleen; spleen.
Excerpt:
"The spleen was regarded by Galen as "an organ of mystery," by
Aristotle as unnecessary, by Pliny as an organ that might hinder
the speed of runners and also as an organ that produced laughter
and mirth, a concept reasserted in the Babylonian Talmud. The first
recorded splenectomy was performed for splenomegaly on a 24-year-old
Neapolitan woman in 1549 by Adrian Zacarelli. The first successful
partial splenectomy for trauma was reported by Franciscus Rosetti
in 1590. Thus, partial splenectomy for trauma antedated total splenectomy
for trauma, first performed by Nicolaus Matthias in 1678 in Capetown,
South Africa, on a patient whose spleen protruded through a flank
wound. The first splenectomy for trauma in the United States was
reported by O'Brien, a Royal Navy surgeon, in 1816. In
1866, Sir Thomas Spencer Wells gave an account of the first successful
splenectomy in England...."
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