1007. The Spleen is also of this nature. For it takes in defiled blood in which is pure blood intermingled as a solvent. Then by their own method of scourging, they twist and tear away the defiled blood-thus not the liquid component - and deliver what is torn away to the veins of the bowels and other parts, also with a view to sparing the liver that labor.
1007. Such also is the spleen for it receives the filthy blood, with which is also mixed the pure blood, and serves in the place of a menstruum. Thus by its methods of flagellation it twists and tears asunder the filthy blood - not the serum - and delivers it thus sundered to the veins of the omentum and elsewhere. In this way it also relieves the liver.
1007. Lien etiam talis est, nam sanguinem recipit spurcum, cui etiam purus sanguis intermixtus est, qui menstrui loco inserviat, ita non serum; spurcum sanguinem sic per suos modos flagellandi, torquent, et discerpunt, et sic discerptum tradunt omenti venis, aliisque, ita [ut] parcerent etiam 2
hepati.