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Eve Drewelowe's journals, volumes II-III, 1950s
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daily consultations. And again, I was given one set of food tests - these common foods, except for the pork and the peanuts which might have been included among the others to serve as a check. They could have. Interestingly enough, they were the only substances that came out negatively. These, of course, had not been on my diet sheet for a matter of ten - no - fifteen years. Therefore it was to be expected that I might be desensitized to them. The other foods, however, caused a furor. I reacted beautifully - much more than I had even one and one-half years before. I did so well by them that my thigh was swollen into one big lump. It was impossible to read those others and differentiate between them because the had all become engulfed in the mountainous mass. In order to check the peanuts, and peanut butter being mechanically a non-irritant, I tried a diminutive quantity one morning. The result - hives. We dared not try the pork because of digestive reasons both mechanical and chemical. All this was interesting and - I thought - amusing despite my periodic discomfort. So I said to Dr Rivers one morning "Do you want to know something funny?" Yes, surely - what is it?" "You know the food tests, I have been subjected to? Well, of all the substances tested peanuts and pork were the only ones that came out negatively. I should not be sensitive to them because I have had none of either in many years. However, just to prove or
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daily consultations. And again, I was given one set of food tests - these common foods, except for the pork and the peanuts which might have been included among the others to serve as a check. They could have. Interestingly enough, they were the only substances that came out negatively. These, of course, had not been on my diet sheet for a matter of ten - no - fifteen years. Therefore it was to be expected that I might be desensitized to them. The other foods, however, caused a furor. I reacted beautifully - much more than I had even one and one-half years before. I did so well by them that my thigh was swollen into one big lump. It was impossible to read those others and differentiate between them because the had all become engulfed in the mountainous mass. In order to check the peanuts, and peanut butter being mechanically a non-irritant, I tried a diminutive quantity one morning. The result - hives. We dared not try the pork because of digestive reasons both mechanical and chemical. All this was interesting and - I thought - amusing despite my periodic discomfort. So I said to Dr Rivers one morning "Do you want to know something funny?" Yes, surely - what is it?" "You know the food tests, I have been subjected to? Well, of all the substances tested peanuts and pork were the only ones that came out negatively. I should not be sensitive to them because I have had none of either in many years. However, just to prove or
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