“…]aekson (1957) reported the removal of a spleen weighing 2400 g and densely infiltrated with sareoid granulomas from a woman, aged 39, in whom it was eausing no special symptoms, although she had a hypoehromie anaemia which improved afterwards; an abdominal lymph-node removed at the same time showed similar histologieal ehanges, and radiographie ehanges were present in the lungs. Case 2 of Bertino and Myerson (1960) was that of a blaek man, aged 29, with abdominal enlargement due to gross hepatosplenomegaly, the Iiver being 12 em below the costal margin. The spleen, weighing 1820 g, was removed.…”