This section is from the "Impaired Health: Its Cause And Cure" (Volume 2) book, by John H. Tilden. Also available from Amazon: Impaired health its cause and cure: A repudiation of the conventional treatment of disease
Enlargement of the spleen, such as has been referred to under other heads, occurs in fevers, heart disease, hardening of the liver, and other diseases.
There is a wandering spleen, like floating kidney. No doubt this condition may occur occasionally, but certainly very rarely. There is no reason why the spleen should not sag down below its normal position, from the same causes that allow the stomach, transverse colon, and other organs in the abdominal viscera to drop below their level. Great enervation, muscular relaxation, and intra-abdominal pressure from gas, etc., may occasionally displace, deform, and put out of their normal position any of these organs. This condition of the spleen occurs so seldom that it is unfortunate to have this reputation at all; for physicians who are always looking for the unusual and grotesque will often be troubled with finding this condition when it exists only in their minds. It is said that the wandering spleen is found oftener in women than in men. In malarial countries, where the spleen is frequently found enlarged, the wandering kidney may be found also; for the weight of the enlarged spleen must necessarily pull very heavily on attachments, and after the enlargement is overcome it would be reasonable to expect to find the spleen, as well as the left kidney, below its normal position on account of the stretched ligaments. This same displacement may occur to every organ in the body.
Whatever is necessary to correct the health of the patient should be done. If the patient is complaining, and seeks the physician's advice for discomfort, it will not be from wandering spleen; it will be due to indigestion, gas in the bowels, which, if corrected by a proper diet, will remove all symptoms that are driving the patient to seek relief.
 
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