There were signs of hepatic cirrhosis and in addition an inguinal hernia.
The Gall-Bladder .-- Harle mentions the case of a man of fifty, in whom he could find no gall-bladder; Patterson has seen a similar instance in a men of twenty-five.

Purser describes a double gall-bladder.
The spleen has been found deficient or wanting by Lebby, Ramsay, and others, but more frequently it is seen doubled.

Cabrolius, Morgagni, and others have found two spleens in one subject; Cheselden and Fallopius report three; Fantoni mentions four found in one subject; Guy-Patin has seen five, none as large as the ordinary organ; Hollerius, Kerckringius, and others have remarked on multiple spleens.
There is a possibility that in some of the cases of multiple spleens reported the organ is really single but divided into several lobes.
Albrecht mentions a case shown at a meeting of the Vienna Medical Society of a very large number of spleens found in the mesogastrium, peritoneum, on the mesentery and transverse mesocolon, in Douglas' pouch, etc.

There was a spleen "the size of a walnut" in the usual position, with the splenic artery and vein in their normal position.
Every one of these spleens had a capsule, was covered by peritoneum, and exhibited the histologic appearance of splenic tissue.

According to the review of this article, Toldt explains the case by assuming that other parts of the celomic epithelium, besides that of the mesogastrium, are capable of forming splenic tissue.