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ings are anirobic. Glycogen, the main source of the muscle's energy, is broken down to lactic acid, and it is the presence of the latter which appears to be the causative agent in bringing about contraction. The recovery of the muscle, which must take place during the "refractory period," when the muscle will not respond to further stimulation, requires the presence of oxygen. Of the lactic aci...

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THE opening meeting of the Ulster Medical Society for session 1937-8 was held in the Whitla Medical Institute on 28th October, 1937. I he out-going president, Professor P. 1. Crymble, installed the president for the incoming session, Professor W. W. D. Thomson, who, before delivering his address on "The Life and Times of Hans Sloanie" (published elsewhere in this number of the Journal), referre...