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Eve Drewelowe's journals, volumes II-III, 1950s

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69. causing these but it is too much trouble. And anyway these large hives aren't serious". Find out indeed! Never would he have another opportunity. If you have ever been a victim of hives, you know how much good a little flour-paste - "to be applied locally", put up in a drugstore in a fancy container at a still fancier price, - will do.. I went away never to return, completely angry with disgust at the superficial attitude and the unscientific methods of a man who was posing as a doctor. I still feel that if something constructive might have been done about the hives at the beginning the stomach situation might have been checked before it began. There has also been ample opportunities in-between for the symptoms to have been analysed and curbed before the hives of yesterday got out of control with the stomach of today. Since nothing positive had been done for the hives they grew steadily worse. In a few more years they began to invade the lungs. With them breathing became difficult and laboured. It was then a matter of wheezing in and out; in and out; in with the inhaling, out with the exhaling. One such occasion, at least, - the very first - was accompanied by violent abdominal pain. We were frightened and summoned a physician - a totally different man from the army doctor. He administered an adrenalin injection and the disagreeable hives quickly responded and were eased. As I remember,

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69. causing these but it is too much trouble. And anyway these large hives aren't serious". Find out indeed! Never would he have another opportunity. If you have ever been a victim of hives, you know how much good a little flour-paste - "to be applied locally", put up in a drugstore in a fancy container at a still fancier price, - will do.. I went away never to return, completely angry with disgust at the superficial attitude and the unscientific methods of a man who was posing as a doctor. I still feel that if something constructive might have been done about the hives at the beginning the stomach situation might have been checked before it began. There has also been ample opportunities in-between for the symptoms to have been analysed and curbed before the hives of yesterday got out of control with the stomach of today. Since nothing positive had been done for the hives they grew steadily worse. In a few more years they began to invade the lungs. With them breathing became difficult and laboured. It was then a matter of wheezing in and out; in and out; in with the inhaling, out with the exhaling. One such occasion, at least, - the very first - was accompanied by violent abdominal pain. We were frightened and summoned a physician - a totally different man from the army doctor. He administered an adrenalin injection and the disagreeable hives quickly responded and were eased. As I remember,