Spleen
was once believed to be the seat of ill-humour and melancholy The herb spleenwort was supposed to remove these splenic disorders.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.