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

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as the original sensitive but weak pipeline. Nor can it be so assailable to stress and strain. Besides there was the nervous system to be considered. Would it have withstood the shock? I retain a disbelief that it could have been handled with sufficient dexterity at that time to have permitted us a good recovery. Needless to say there was no operation.
I have always been more than content, doubly grateful that this was my decision then. For in the light of further events, I cannot but believe that even with a duodenal ulcer, a gastroenterostomy would have been nothing short of a catastrophe. Moreover, I am firm in my belief that with a gastrectomy in 1931 my stomach ills would have been multiplied if I had survived the operation. The situation -- I am sure -- would have been even more acute than it has been. Though sincere enough the council for surgery for me at that time by very good physicians of reputable reputation was ill-advised. Fortunately we did not act upon the advice.
As it was, the diet, and the rest, and the sunbaths, the milk, and the mucin -- all proper restoratives for a case like me -- all helped to ease the stomach problem. These furthermore permitted enough advance in progress to help carry over to another period before I again was felled.

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as the original sensitive but weak pipeline. Nor can it be so assailable to stress and strain. Besides there was the nervous system to be considered. Would it have withstood the shock? I retain a disbelief that it could have been handled with sufficient dexterity at that time to have permitted us a good recovery. Needless to say there was no operation. I have always been more than content, doubly grateful that this was my decision then. For in the light of further events, I cannot but believe that even with a duodenal ulcer, a gastroenterostomy would have been nothing short of a catastrophe. Moreover, I am firm in my belief that with a gastrectomy in 1931 my stomach ills would have been multiplied if I had survived the operation. The situation -- I am sure -- would have been even more acute than it has been. Though sincere enough the council for surgery for me at that time by very good physicians of reputable reputation was ill-advised. Fortunately we did not act upon the advice. As it was, the diet, and the rest, and the sunbaths, the milk, and the mucin -- all proper restoratives for a case like me -- all helped to ease the stomach problem. These furthermore permitted enough advance in progress to help carry over to another period before I again was felled.