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The Conway Review Lecture of the Royal Academy of Medicine in Ireland, presented on Thursday 26th June 1986 at the summer meeting of the Biological Sciences Section, St. James’s Hospital, Dublin.

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Kirkpatrick, C.T. A biophysical approach to bronchospasm. I.J.M.S. 156, 205–210 (1987). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02954041

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