Word: spleens
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Hast so much wit, and mirth, and spleen about thee...
...after any treatment is taken, protozoa may hide out in tissues like the liver or spleen, pop up to plague a "cured" man months or years afterwards; and a patient who succeeds in becoming completely free of the parasites has no true immunity, is liable to reinfection if an infected mosquito bites him. And there are always some mosquitoes with malarial stomach ulcers threatening the human race in the tropics...
Next to typhus, Iran's biggest menace is leishmania, a mysteriously infectious disease (causing extreme enlargement of spleen and liver, and grey pigmentation of the skin) which kills thousands of natives (who call it kala azar or "black disease"). Leishmania in another form leaves thousands of survivors scarred by disfiguring...
...expert Eugene Houdry. The rubbermen were still human enough to be glad to find an excuse in Mr. Houdry's steel figures, which appeared to be as high or higher than those for most of the program already under way. Mr. Houdry was mad enough to vent his spleen all over the place. But the important point is that, even six weeks ago a new process from a less eminent scientist than Eugene Houdry would have stopped the whole synthetic program in its tracks until it was investigated. Now the die is cast...
...incendiary bullets, coils of intestine cut to ribbons by flying glass, or loops of gut hanging out of slashed stomachs. Sometimes, although no missiles penetrated the abdominal cavity, indriven fragments of bone did as much damage as bullets. Concussion of a nearby bomb often produced fatal internal hemorrhages, torn spleen and liver. "Immersion blast"-internal injury inflicted on sailors in the water near an exploding depth bomb-sometimes produced ripped intestines, peritonitis, bleeding from ears and mouth...