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From the meat of twelve nuts it was possible to separate a 

 little more than three grains of proteose by the usual method. 

 The average of three closely agreeing determinations of nitrogen 

 was 18.57%; of the ash it was 1.71%. 



The quantitative relationships of these and other constituents 

 will be subjects of combined investigation. 



Dr. Curtis drew attention to the irritation of the mucous mem- 

 brane of the bladder and urethra caused by drinking too freely 

 of cocoanut milk. Dr. Gies in answer to a question stated that 

 the food content of the cocoanut is small. 



The second paper was a continuation of the senior author's 

 study of the nature and causes of muscle fatigue. Of the two 

 supposed causes of fatigue, loss of substance necessary to con- 

 traction and poisoning by so-called fatigue products, the present 

 work deals with the former. It is well known that the drug 

 phlorhizin causes the removal of the carbohydrates from an 

 organism to which it is administered. The authors find that it 

 induces decided evidences of fatigue in the muscles of fasting 

 cats. A well phlorhizinized muscle is comparable to a normal 

 muscle in the late stages of fatigue. This effect seems to be 

 due not to a specific action of the drug on the protoplasm of the 

 muscle cells, but to the loss of carbohydrate from the muscle. 

 This conclusion is rendered probable by the fact that when an 

 animal has been put well under the influence of phlorhizin, the 

 administration of sugar (dextrose) counteracts the effect of the 

 drug, removes the evidences of fatigue and restores the muscle. 

 It seems probable that the loss of carbohydrate is an important 

 factor in the early stages of muscle fatigue. 



Incidentally some observations on rigor mortis have been 

 made. A muscle well under the influence of phlorhizin may 

 begin to go into rigor five minutes after death and rigor is com- 

 plete very early. This confirms the conclusions of others that 

 there is a close connection between rigor and carbohydrate. A 

 muscle irrigated with dextrose is capable of giving fully as many 

 contractions as, or even more tnan a normal muscle without 

 dextrose. 



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