Spleen. When you lose your temper, you’re said to be “venting your spleen.”  Why the spleen?  Why not the pancreas?  Well, doctors used to think a healthy personality required balancing four fluids, or humours.  Too much blood made you sanguine—calm, even apathetic—and you might need leeches.  Too much spleen made you melancholy, or bad-tempered, or angry.  Modern psychology says venting is good because repressed rage can build up and explode like… well, like a ruptured spleen.  Spleen: pent-up anger.

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