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Eve Drewelowe's journals, volumes II-III, 1950s
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supervision for a year and a half - but rather an arrangement to simplify the food that I was taking so much that it would be possible to determine whether it was food that was worrying my stomach into illness; or whether there were other factors involved. Theoretically speaking, if it were food alone that was being responsible for the condition of my stomach then I should be completely distress free after several days on agreeable food. That is what we were all hoping for. Dr Alvarez had had some miraculous responses in some of his patients. So under Dr Alvarez's tutelage, I went from one food to another, each in turn for a number of days, and then at length to none at all. Right now, I am a bit confused about which came first and why but am able to remember and relate to the general idea. We tried among others a diet composed largely of a species of bean - grown in southern Europe and Mexico I believe. In Italy, Spain, and Mexico it is used sometimes as a food for infants. This small bean when cooked was hardly larger than a pea and was completely bland after the cellophane shell was removed. There was little also to occupy me at these meals, so I sat at length and pulled the little kernels out of the skins one by one in order to get some food. Sometimes at night I was terror stricken. In my room at the Kahler, because it was summer and warm I slept with the windows ajar and the shades flung up to let in the air. Disregarding these curtained windows I usually slept with my lights on most of the night as I drifted in and out of oblivion; in and out
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supervision for a year and a half - but rather an arrangement to simplify the food that I was taking so much that it would be possible to determine whether it was food that was worrying my stomach into illness; or whether there were other factors involved. Theoretically speaking, if it were food alone that was being responsible for the condition of my stomach then I should be completely distress free after several days on agreeable food. That is what we were all hoping for. Dr Alvarez had had some miraculous responses in some of his patients. So under Dr Alvarez's tutelage, I went from one food to another, each in turn for a number of days, and then at length to none at all. Right now, I am a bit confused about which came first and why but am able to remember and relate to the general idea. We tried among others a diet composed largely of a species of bean - grown in southern Europe and Mexico I believe. In Italy, Spain, and Mexico it is used sometimes as a food for infants. This small bean when cooked was hardly larger than a pea and was completely bland after the cellophane shell was removed. There was little also to occupy me at these meals, so I sat at length and pulled the little kernels out of the skins one by one in order to get some food. Sometimes at night I was terror stricken. In my room at the Kahler, because it was summer and warm I slept with the windows ajar and the shades flung up to let in the air. Disregarding these curtained windows I usually slept with my lights on most of the night as I drifted in and out of oblivion; in and out
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