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1 From the Department of Pharmacology, Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1. All of the barbiturates studied in this investigation (evipal sodium, sodium pentobarbital, ortal sodium and sodium amytal) depressed the cardiac vagus nerves.
2. Pentothal sodium, sodium thio-ethamyl and sodium thiopentobarbital may increase the responsiveness of the heart to vagus nerve stimulation.
3. In some experimental animals picrotoxin antagonizes the cardiac vagus depressant action of the barbiturates (evipal, pentobarbital and ortal).
Submitted on November 15, 1937