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Eve Drewelowe's journals, volumes II-III, 1950s
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experience considering the complexity of the case. At the time the patient was put on hourly doses of [Mucin?] and the regulation order regimen -- a Supply diet and rest. I have always been treated as an ulcer patient, so this was quite the proper thing to do. Musin, at this time was quite in its infancy and proved conclusively -- I think -- that Dr Arneill was abreast of the times in medicine. There were five months of Mucin treatment (mucin was made from the mucous of a pig's stomach); other months on milk; in alkalies of various sorts, I was laid away on the top most shelf and of reach of the consulating public. But this was not enough. The response of the organism to treatment was inadequate. After months of improper response or consultation resulted in Drs Arneill and Price advising surgery, I was told that there are no reason for me to be a senior invalid and was urged to find relief and get well by way of surgery. With this ultimatum, the patient however, balked. AFter having weighed all the pros and cons what particular advantage would there be for me. Above all I wasn't willing to admit that my stomach ills could not be cured by a proper diet of agreeable food. Even today I am more certain than ever that a schedule of a long term complete rest and inocuous food of that time might have spared me many years of inconvenience and pain. Considering the fatalities of such a performance at that time at my age was but three percent. It must have decreased since then. However, I was not even willing to take that chance for I was sure that with a gastroenterostomy
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experience considering the complexity of the case. At the time the patient was put on hourly doses of [Mucin?] and the regulation order regimen -- a Supply diet and rest. I have always been treated as an ulcer patient, so this was quite the proper thing to do. Musin, at this time was quite in its infancy and proved conclusively -- I think -- that Dr Arneill was abreast of the times in medicine. There were five months of Mucin treatment (mucin was made from the mucous of a pig's stomach); other months on milk; in alkalies of various sorts, I was laid away on the top most shelf and of reach of the consulating public. But this was not enough. The response of the organism to treatment was inadequate. After months of improper response or consultation resulted in Drs Arneill and Price advising surgery, I was told that there are no reason for me to be a senior invalid and was urged to find relief and get well by way of surgery. With this ultimatum, the patient however, balked. AFter having weighed all the pros and cons what particular advantage would there be for me. Above all I wasn't willing to admit that my stomach ills could not be cured by a proper diet of agreeable food. Even today I am more certain than ever that a schedule of a long term complete rest and inocuous food of that time might have spared me many years of inconvenience and pain. Considering the fatalities of such a performance at that time at my age was but three percent. It must have decreased since then. However, I was not even willing to take that chance for I was sure that with a gastroenterostomy
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