Abstract
Splenectomy does not ever interfere with the shortening in the coagulation time of blood of rabbits, which commonly takes place on bleeding of a certain amount. In the present investigations the bleeding experiment was carried out 7 days or later after splenectomy, and one fifth or one third of the total blood volume was shed.
The lengthening in the coagulation time beyond the initial, seen after bleeding in a spell of 5 hours, almost invariably disappears after splenectomy.
A few hours after splenectomy the coagulation time was observed somewhat delayed in over half the instances.
