In his "Surgery" Gooch says that at the battle of Dettingen one of Sir Robert Rich's Dragoons was left all night on the field, weltering in his blood, his spleen hanging out of his body in a gangrenous state.

The next morning he was carried to the surgeons who ligated the large vessels, and extirpated the spleen; the man recovered and was soon able to do duty.

In the Philosophical Transactions there is a report of a man who was wounded in the spleen by a large hunting-knife.

Fergusson found the spleen hanging from the wound and ligated it.

It separated in ten days and the patient recovered.
Williams reports a stab-wound of the spleen in a negro of twenty-one.
The spleen protruded, and the protruding part was ligated by a silver wire, one-half of the organ sloughing off; the patient recovered.