Abstract
Peptone was injected intravenously into rabbits, normal or unilaterally splanchnicotomized. Some individuals died of the poisoning, some were killed when the intoxication symptoms were rather vivid or had nearly disappeared. The suprarenals were examined for epinephrine, the Suto-Kojima method being utilized.
When the poisoning was so severe as to kill animals within a few minutes no reduction occurred in the epinephrine storage of the suprarenals, and so also when the examination was conducted in the animals which indicated signs of poisoning no more. But when animals were killed during the poisoning the glands possessed a somewhat smaller amount of epinephrine. Interference with the splanchnic nerve apparently had no ability to protect the gland from this reduction.
