†Synopsis of remarks accompanying the demonstration of a number of experiments on the action of saline purgatives to the Alumni Association of the Medical Department, University of California. The results of these experiments have been published as follows: American Journal of Physiology, Vol. X, 1903, p. 101; Vol. X, 1904, p. 259. University of California Publications, Physiology, Vol. I, 1903, p. 5; Vol. I, 1904, p. 81; Vol. I, 1904, p. 115.