On indications for splenectomy

Abstract

Without going into the history of the issue, I will begin with the following date. On 12/I 1914 in Berlin the question of splenectomy was discussed at a joint meeting of the Society for Internal Medicine and Pediatrics and the Society for Surgery. The speaker was the general practitioner W. Türk said that if we note some progress in our knowledge about the function of the spleen in recent years, this progress we owe not so much to histological and biological-experimental studies, as to the bold intervention of individual clinicians, who, at first without sufficient theoretical basis, simply by their clinical conviction proposed to remove the spleen in certain diseases.

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