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Eve Drewelowe's journals, volumes II-III, 1950s
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July 1938 About the middle of July after vacationing in the Trapper Lake region of Colorado on the western slope and in the Telons, the Dean drove me back to Rochester in Kippy Toe for a check. (Kippy Toe our time honored and revered Dodge - well named, I think meaning hot or boiling water in Russian. Kippy Toe always lives up to her name never failing to boil on the pull up a mountain slope). The first day or two I cleared, - with good grace -, the routine hoops: - blood counts and tests; long x-rays; general examination - The next two days the not so often rolled routine hoops - a gall bladder dge test; stomach and duodenal x-rays, with equally good grace. On the [illegible], I fell headlong; the gastroscopy stubbed my toe, each with bad grace. By this time - my third appearance at the Clinic - I had graduated from the soup course, the water and cookies of a test meal; to a dessert course - a histamine without the soup. The histamine is so called after the drag which is used to provoke the hydrocloric acid secretion. The test makes it possible to measure the secretion of the acid glands in the stomach and determine the amount of free hydrocloric acid. During a period of activation of ulcer symptoms, acid steps up. It is important to the physician to know how much, for from it he can determine how active the ulcer. It is also
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July 1938 About the middle of July after vacationing in the Trapper Lake region of Colorado on the western slope and in the Telons, the Dean drove me back to Rochester in Kippy Toe for a check. (Kippy Toe our time honored and revered Dodge - well named, I think meaning hot or boiling water in Russian. Kippy Toe always lives up to her name never failing to boil on the pull up a mountain slope). The first day or two I cleared, - with good grace -, the routine hoops: - blood counts and tests; long x-rays; general examination - The next two days the not so often rolled routine hoops - a gall bladder dge test; stomach and duodenal x-rays, with equally good grace. On the [illegible], I fell headlong; the gastroscopy stubbed my toe, each with bad grace. By this time - my third appearance at the Clinic - I had graduated from the soup course, the water and cookies of a test meal; to a dessert course - a histamine without the soup. The histamine is so called after the drag which is used to provoke the hydrocloric acid secretion. The test makes it possible to measure the secretion of the acid glands in the stomach and determine the amount of free hydrocloric acid. During a period of activation of ulcer symptoms, acid steps up. It is important to the physician to know how much, for from it he can determine how active the ulcer. It is also
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