structure of the spleen^ which becomes preternaturally firm and
dense^ and of a light colour ; " which, he afterwards says, he is
inchned to think the effect of external injury. I thiiik, however,
that the view I had taken of these peculiar hard, yellow-white
masses, as being trrdy altered clots of blood, is probably the more
correct ; and a preparation in Guy's Museum, where a poartial rupture
of the kind, to which I have referred, had taken place in the spleen
of a child over whom a cart had passed, and who sunk from the
comphcated and severe injury she sustained, after surviving nearly
three days, seems so much in point, that I will give the case from
which it was taken.
Case 27. — Laceration of the Spleen. — AnnT — , ast. 9, was ad-
mitted into Guy's Hospital, rmder Mr. Morgan, on the 8th of
November, 1826, in consequence of having been run over the day
before, a cart-wheel passing over her body so as to produce fracture
of the bones of the pelvis, with great general mischief and contusion.
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She survived till the following day, having lived nearly three days
after the accident.
