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The Effect of Simultaneous Removal of Thymus and Spleen in young Guinea-pigs

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 September 2014

D. Noël Paton  and
Alexander Goodall
D. Noël Paton
Affiliation:
Laboratory of the Royal College of Physicians, Edinburgh
Alexander Goodall
Affiliation:
Laboratory of the Royal College of Physicians, Edinburgh
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We have already shown that removal of the spleen (1) or of the thymus (2) has very little effect on the animal economy. Since the spleen and thymus together comprise the largest amount of lymphoid tissue in the body of young animals, it would appear not improbable that although removal of either of these organs causes no marked disturbance, their simultaneous extirpation might be expected to give rise to some more manifest change. Friedleben (3) states that, while in his series of experiments no dog died of removal of the thymus, and that the removal of the spleen in young dogs does not influence the course of life, the simultaneous removal of the thymus and spleen causes a marked deterioration of blood formation, and leads to death.

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Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh , Volume 25 , Issue 1 , 1906 , pp. 389 - 391
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Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1906

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(1)Noël, Paton and Goodall, , Jour. of Phys., xxix., 1905, p. 411.Google Scholar
(2)Noël, Paton and Goodall, , Jour. of Phys., xxix., 1904, p. 49.Google Scholar
(3)Friedleben, , Die Physiologie der Thymusdrüm, 1858.Google Scholar