Careful survey of the literature does not reveal many examinations of the cardiac muscle for inorganic elements. As a matter of fact I have only been able to discover one analysis of the human heart which makes any pretension to a detailed series of determinations, by Lematte et al. (1) and this apparently was only on one heart. These investigators determined the percentages of alkali and alkaline earth metals, phosphoric acid, iron, and dry residue, and reported their results in the form of the hydroxides of sodium, potassium, calcium, and magnesium.