MYOPATHY DUE TO A DEFECT IN MUSCLE GLYCOGEN BREAKDOWN

opponent is well prepared will make an aggressor think twice before he makes an attack, and it is probably true, as Cervantes wrote many years ago, that to be prepared is half the victory. In the present instance it is not to general measures of offence or defence that reference will be made, but to those measures which are the proper and peculiar care of the medical practitioner. These measures include the prevention and the cure of disease among the members of the whole community. The duty of the medical practitioner and the persons with w~om he has to deal are the same in war as they are in peace. In war fighting forces are increased in number and auxiliary arms of the forces grow in size; in addition, the geographical distribution of the people, combatant and non-combatant, is dis-. turbed, People change their occupations, but the work of the doctor is still confined to the practice of medicine. He has to follow the geographical rearrangement of the community and it is clear that he cannot do this in a haphazard fashion. An impossible situation would arise unless some form of coordination was adopted. In the war-of 1939-1945 the Central and the State Medical Coordination Committees did splendid work-the medical branches of the armed services were adequately staffed, the civilian population was cared for medically according to the needs of different areas, and members of the medical profession had the satisfaction of knowing that they were making a notable contribution to the national effort. One ·of the most important facts about the whole of the plan was that members of the practising profession took an active part in all that was done by the Coordination