“…Reactions which fulfill the above criteria have been observed to occur in the isolated hearts of warm blooded animals by Caesaris-Demel (4), Mendeleeff, Hannevart and Platounoff * Jacques Loeb Fellow in Medicine, Johns Hopkins University. 169 (12), and by Went and Liss/~k (18). The latter report that, as recorded by a myographic tracing, the heart beat is depressed, sometimes after preliminary acceleration, following the introduction of small quantities of antigen into the perfusing fluid.…”