Spiritual Experiences (Odhner) n. 1007

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1007. The Spleen is also of this nature. For it takes in defiled blood in which is pure blood intermingled as a solvent. Then by their own method of scourging, they twist and tear away the defiled blood-thus not the liquid component-and deliver what is torn away to the veins of the bowels and other parts, also with a view to sparing the liver that labor.


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