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Eve Drewelowe's journals, volumes II-III, 1950s
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36. sensitive digestive tracts [and?] who cannot even take ordinary food that hasn't been carefully strained. It has farther been proved that the practice of eating bran has contributed greatly to digestive ailments and has expounded Doctors' practices by increasing the number of patients. In fact it has added materially to the money the layman has spent on medicine and finding relief for digestive disturbances. Elimination, yes! But what - the indigestible waste products or the individual? Perhaps fortunately for me with my easily irritated stomach and digestive canal I returned to the University where such a degree of enlightenment had not yet penetrated. Dormitories, boarding houses, restaurants and tea-rooms were still on ordinary branless foods. In order to get back, however, I gave a blood transfusion, which paid me twenty-five dollars - my fare home. Twice during the years at college - once as a junior at home and once as a senior at school - I became entirely fatigued to a faint, numb, dizzy, inarticulate state of complete exhaustion. A physician was called in each instance and respiratory exercises and stimulants were used to revive me and restore me back
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36. sensitive digestive tracts [and?] who cannot even take ordinary food that hasn't been carefully strained. It has farther been proved that the practice of eating bran has contributed greatly to digestive ailments and has expounded Doctors' practices by increasing the number of patients. In fact it has added materially to the money the layman has spent on medicine and finding relief for digestive disturbances. Elimination, yes! But what - the indigestible waste products or the individual? Perhaps fortunately for me with my easily irritated stomach and digestive canal I returned to the University where such a degree of enlightenment had not yet penetrated. Dormitories, boarding houses, restaurants and tea-rooms were still on ordinary branless foods. In order to get back, however, I gave a blood transfusion, which paid me twenty-five dollars - my fare home. Twice during the years at college - once as a junior at home and once as a senior at school - I became entirely fatigued to a faint, numb, dizzy, inarticulate state of complete exhaustion. A physician was called in each instance and respiratory exercises and stimulants were used to revive me and restore me back
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