Abstract
Strips of the anaphylactic guinea-pig uterus contract strongly when tested with the foreign proteid toward which the guinea-pig is sensitive. Our attempts thus far to record similar contractions by applying the proteid to the uterus in situ have been unsuccessful.
From this it would seem that the reaction of the anaphylactic uterus while still supplied with normal nerve and blood elements is different from its reaction when isolated from the rest of the body.
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