Spiritual Experiences (Buss) n. 1007

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1007. Such also is the spleen for it receives the filthy blood, with which is also mixed the pure blood, and serves in the place of a menstruum. Thus by its methods of flagellation it twists and tears asunder the filthy blood - not the serum - and delivers it thus sundered to the veins of the omentum and elsewhere. In this way it also relieves the liver.


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