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Eve Drewelowe's journals, volumes II-III, 1950s
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that is, -- the obvious stomach history was much the same, lacking some few years, as of today. Pain spots were fixed in the back. Much tenseness and a soreness was manifest in the whole abdomen and especially int he stomach. As always too there was a marked tendency toward constipation. Harrassing migraines were much too common, especially when I became tired and exhausted. Allergies, however, were not even mentioned! At this examination I was given the usual test meal -- water and cookies of course. This meal established the fact that the stomach supported an unseemly amount of hydrocloric acid. There was little assimilation. This lack was diagnosed as due -- it was thought -- to an obstruction preventing the passing on of the food. This however, was not the cause; the pylares resisted the moving our dry cleaning down as shown in the x-rays. As was permitted out to me, the x-rays were negative but caught a pylosia spasm or a muscular contraction of the stomach walls. I am not clear now that point and the x-rays have been destroyed since. The barium given for the x-ray, however, plus the accumulation of fatigue from the day's activities netted me one of those diabolical migraines together with an nth degree of nausea. These migrained visitations and to her deadly familiar to me, but now -- I think -- are somewhat less so. The case was diagnosed as a duodenal ulcer with pretty good reason; despite negative x-rays; despite jumping to conclusions. It was only the super extraordinary exceptional diagnostician who concluded rightfully otherwise. But most doctors would be lacking in
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that is, -- the obvious stomach history was much the same, lacking some few years, as of today. Pain spots were fixed in the back. Much tenseness and a soreness was manifest in the whole abdomen and especially int he stomach. As always too there was a marked tendency toward constipation. Harrassing migraines were much too common, especially when I became tired and exhausted. Allergies, however, were not even mentioned! At this examination I was given the usual test meal -- water and cookies of course. This meal established the fact that the stomach supported an unseemly amount of hydrocloric acid. There was little assimilation. This lack was diagnosed as due -- it was thought -- to an obstruction preventing the passing on of the food. This however, was not the cause; the pylares resisted the moving our dry cleaning down as shown in the x-rays. As was permitted out to me, the x-rays were negative but caught a pylosia spasm or a muscular contraction of the stomach walls. I am not clear now that point and the x-rays have been destroyed since. The barium given for the x-ray, however, plus the accumulation of fatigue from the day's activities netted me one of those diabolical migraines together with an nth degree of nausea. These migrained visitations and to her deadly familiar to me, but now -- I think -- are somewhat less so. The case was diagnosed as a duodenal ulcer with pretty good reason; despite negative x-rays; despite jumping to conclusions. It was only the super extraordinary exceptional diagnostician who concluded rightfully otherwise. But most doctors would be lacking in
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