Abstract
The movements of the excised cat's uterus, which have been diminished or arrested by placing it in a Ringer's fluid containing no Ca, are restored and usually increased by the addition of strophanthus.
The effect of quite a short exposure of uterine muscle to strophanthus is to make it extraordinarily responsive to Ca.
It is suggested that some forms of post-partum hemorrhage may be due to subsistence upon a diet poor in Ca affecting the efficiency of the uterine muscle and that in such cases strophanthin might be usefully injected intravenously.
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- Received January 4, 1920.
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