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lIl-IIIltoday at 7:24 AM1 replyview on HN

>This sounds like something you'd read about in a third-world country in the 19th century.

Not even then. Neither third world country doctors nor 19th century physicians would confuse the liver for the spleen.


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paradox460today at 7:52 AM

The ancient Greeks knew the difference. They may not have known what the spleen itself did, but they knew it wasn't the liver