splenic fever-known also as anthrax-a disease that attacks most species of domestic animals and may also prove fatal to man, was the first to yield the secret of its origin.
"Makers of Modern Medicine"
James J. Walsh
In animals devoid of the spleen, the liver appears of a symmetrical shape, both its lobes being equal; for that quantity which in other animals has become splenic, is in the former still hepatic.
"Surgical Anatomy"
Joseph Maclise