TY - JOUR AB - Ideas about the spleen's functions as a blood filter, reservoir, scavenger of red cells and immunologic communication center are traced from the ancients to the present. AU - WH Crosby DA - 1983/8// IS - 2 VL - 16 PB - International Society of Lymphology and the University of Arizona Libraries PY - 1983 TI - AN HISTORICAL SKETCH OF SPLENIC FUNCTION AND SPLENECTOMY T2 - Lymphology UR - http://journals.librarypublishing.arizona.edu/lymph/article/id/4070/ ER -