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Eve Drewelowe's journals, volumes II-III, 1950s
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shall have to call your doctor before we can go on." With that she entered the adjoining laboratory and called Dr. Rivers extension, and right away his assistant Dr Phillips was in the room. He checked me and asked whether I should be able to go on with the test. Knowing full well that if it were not completed then and I should have to began completely anew I elected to continue and have it over with. Procrastination or waiting would make Histamine no easier. I much preferred to finish the Histamine then, then to have to go through the period of preparation again - the apprehension fit; the inconvenience and discomfort of the starvation period; the fuss and bother of taking the tube; plus using another day. So the test went on at great effort and agony. When it had began, I was lying on my back with flexed knees, almost two hours later when it ended I was in what I call my head standing position. This is sort of a tripod position with the top of the head and the knees forming the tripod. Only in this the knees are drawn close to the head, and the body is halved somewhere in between. I also call this contortion pain because spasmodic pain has a tendency to draw the body into a ball encircling the stomach. This - I think - helps to relax the muscles and untighten the reflexes. As all things pass away, this test also was finally concluded, but I was still caught in acute pyloric-spasm which clamped down with a deadly intent and wouldn't
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shall have to call your doctor before we can go on." With that she entered the adjoining laboratory and called Dr. Rivers extension, and right away his assistant Dr Phillips was in the room. He checked me and asked whether I should be able to go on with the test. Knowing full well that if it were not completed then and I should have to began completely anew I elected to continue and have it over with. Procrastination or waiting would make Histamine no easier. I much preferred to finish the Histamine then, then to have to go through the period of preparation again - the apprehension fit; the inconvenience and discomfort of the starvation period; the fuss and bother of taking the tube; plus using another day. So the test went on at great effort and agony. When it had began, I was lying on my back with flexed knees, almost two hours later when it ended I was in what I call my head standing position. This is sort of a tripod position with the top of the head and the knees forming the tripod. Only in this the knees are drawn close to the head, and the body is halved somewhere in between. I also call this contortion pain because spasmodic pain has a tendency to draw the body into a ball encircling the stomach. This - I think - helps to relax the muscles and untighten the reflexes. As all things pass away, this test also was finally concluded, but I was still caught in acute pyloric-spasm which clamped down with a deadly intent and wouldn't
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