Obs. [f. SPLEEN sb.] A stone supposed to cure disorders of the spleen.
1595. Raleigh, Discov. Guiana (1596), 24. A kinde of greene stones, which the Spaniards call Piedras Hijadas, and we vse for spleene stones.
1613. R. Harcourt, Voy. Guiana, 36. There are diuers kinds of Stone of great vse, and good price, as Jasper, Purphery, and the Spleene-stone.
1666. in Myddelton, Chirk Castle Acc. (1908), 131. Paid the man that came with the spleene stone from Dolgrog.
1691. Lond. Gaz., No. 2680/4. Lost…, a Green Spleen Stone cut Triangular.
1775. Motherby, Med. Dict., Ophites, called also serpentinus, ophite, or spleen-stone.
