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Eve Drewelowe's journals, volumes II-III, 1950s
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had written to a fraternity brother of his at college, now a physician at the clinic! And I, knowing no one was consigned to Rivers who ahd been recommended to me through a mutual friend. This was an agreeable arrangement, as most fortunate arrangement for me. There is no finer stomach - gastrointestinal doctor to be had the world around than Andrew B. Rivers. He merits the foremost rank! In the examination which followed, the x-rays of the stomach and duodenum were negative, of course. Since however, I had a beautiful allergen history of headaches, hay fever, food and hives I was placed under the care of Dr Walter Calvary. He is a tall sandy-haired Spain and from California - a nice, agreeable, friendly sort of chap. In the weeks to come he worked so faithfully with me and my problems. I was sent to teh laboratory for food and pollen tests and we went down the line on those. My thighs and even my forearms were rowed and checked with injections. The corners of the squares were punctuated by injections, each hypodermic representing a food or a pollen test from the rows of sample test-tubes. These injections worked miraculously. They raised bumps that spread into each other, stepped over boundaries, merged and were one. The technician who tried to read them ten minutes later had her difficulties. She was frankly puzzled and frowned over the results. Later that evening my thighs were one enormous swelling but by morning some of the [humptousness?] had subsided sufficiently to make a reading more legible - I thought. Therefore I sat down and did a diagram of the spottings and the size of the bumps. It is to be expected that I was definitely allergic to many food substances, to many pollens. Under Dr. Alvarez I was put into the diet kitchen. When he made out my card of admittance he asked me whether I liked rice. Lamb chops and pears and rice comprise the usual elimination diet. 'No, I can't say, I especially like rice. It probably is all right for Saki, but as for me I would prefer something else, if
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had written to a fraternity brother of his at college, now a physician at the clinic! And I, knowing no one was consigned to Rivers who ahd been recommended to me through a mutual friend. This was an agreeable arrangement, as most fortunate arrangement for me. There is no finer stomach - gastrointestinal doctor to be had the world around than Andrew B. Rivers. He merits the foremost rank! In the examination which followed, the x-rays of the stomach and duodenum were negative, of course. Since however, I had a beautiful allergen history of headaches, hay fever, food and hives I was placed under the care of Dr Walter Calvary. He is a tall sandy-haired Spain and from California - a nice, agreeable, friendly sort of chap. In the weeks to come he worked so faithfully with me and my problems. I was sent to teh laboratory for food and pollen tests and we went down the line on those. My thighs and even my forearms were rowed and checked with injections. The corners of the squares were punctuated by injections, each hypodermic representing a food or a pollen test from the rows of sample test-tubes. These injections worked miraculously. They raised bumps that spread into each other, stepped over boundaries, merged and were one. The technician who tried to read them ten minutes later had her difficulties. She was frankly puzzled and frowned over the results. Later that evening my thighs were one enormous swelling but by morning some of the [humptousness?] had subsided sufficiently to make a reading more legible - I thought. Therefore I sat down and did a diagram of the spottings and the size of the bumps. It is to be expected that I was definitely allergic to many food substances, to many pollens. Under Dr. Alvarez I was put into the diet kitchen. When he made out my card of admittance he asked me whether I liked rice. Lamb chops and pears and rice comprise the usual elimination diet. 'No, I can't say, I especially like rice. It probably is all right for Saki, but as for me I would prefer something else, if
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