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Eve Drewelowe's journals, volumes II-III, 1950s

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was recorded on the previous record." Something was most obviously wrong but I felt relieved that the trouble had finally been located. The nature of trouble however, but not how defined. These physicians too were suspiciously gentle and kind. As I was taken into the adjoining room for four x-rays of a designated kind - "Good luck," they wished me. I have noticed long ago that the worse a patient is the more considerately he is treated; or sometimes as a pose to put his mind at ease to conceal the more indifferently.
After the x-rays that afternoon, I had to see Dr Rivers. I half seriously told him then that the Raentgenologists had discovered a goose egg in my stomach. He didn't seem at all bothered but when I inadvertently mentioned that I began to think I felt better when I didn't eat - having had a fair example on the two day tests and a no food diet - the remark defiantly surprised a troubled look. "That doesn't sound like ulcer," he said.
The following morning the reports had been aggregated and recorded; the x-ray findings were in. I was in consultation with my general adviser. He showed me the x-rays, diagrammed and explained the polyp and the set-up in my stomach. Then he told me he would like to send me down to Dr Heston, who would put me on histamine desensitization. He moreover told me about some of the results of histamine and what they hoped would be accomplished with my stomach. "Histamine," he said, had been used on sensitive individuals with good results who had developed perhaps in the nose due to allergies. We are helping behavior to then make the polyp in your stomach disappear. Otherwise we shall have to snip it out." and added continuing to log all the cards all on the table. "This will perhaps be a two weeks waste of time. In fact it is very apt to be a complete waste of time."
The very first day and I was back I had showed Dr Rivers my ticket to New York and informed him I was on my way to the opening of my exhibit. He had taken it and had studied it intently at great length

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was recorded on the previous record." Something was most obviously wrong but I felt relieved that the trouble had finally been located. The nature of trouble however, but not how defined. These physicians too were suspiciously gentle and kind. As I was taken into the adjoining room for four x-rays of a designated kind - "Good luck," they wished me. I have noticed long ago that the worse a patient is the more considerately he is treated; or sometimes as a pose to put his mind at ease to conceal the more indifferently. After the x-rays that afternoon, I had to see Dr Rivers. I half seriously told him then that the Raentgenologists had discovered a goose egg in my stomach. He didn't seem at all bothered but when I inadvertently mentioned that I began to think I felt better when I didn't eat - having had a fair example on the two day tests and a no food diet - the remark defiantly surprised a troubled look. "That doesn't sound like ulcer," he said. The following morning the reports had been aggregated and recorded; the x-ray findings were in. I was in consultation with my general adviser. He showed me the x-rays, diagrammed and explained the polyp and the set-up in my stomach. Then he told me he would like to send me down to Dr Heston, who would put me on histamine desensitization. He moreover told me about some of the results of histamine and what they hoped would be accomplished with my stomach. "Histamine," he said, had been used on sensitive individuals with good results who had developed perhaps in the nose due to allergies. We are helping behavior to then make the polyp in your stomach disappear. Otherwise we shall have to snip it out." and added continuing to log all the cards all on the table. "This will perhaps be a two weeks waste of time. In fact it is very apt to be a complete waste of time." The very first day and I was back I had showed Dr Rivers my ticket to New York and informed him I was on my way to the opening of my exhibit. He had taken it and had studied it intently at great length