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Eve Drewelowe's journals, volumes II-III, 1950s
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Dr. Alvarez had worked for weeks with me as an elimination diet and I responded the first thing by getting very ill on rice. Most everything bothered me and doubled me up time after time - and always we ended upon a blind alley. The stomach doctors admit that a reaction from a food test is not necessarily the same - the reaction to an intermuscular injection of a diminutive quantity of the substance in question - is that in the digestive process when a like substance may be rubbed into the gastric mucous membrane. Therefore sundry methods are employed to gain information in regard to an individual's food problem. There is no end to the trouble they take in an attempt to find a solution to your difficulties. By having the patient partake of the food directly and thus testing it and noting reactions, physicians can more readily and reliably ascertain results. They can then know whether there is an idiosyncrasy or whether there is a clinical bain or a mechanical reason for disagreement, or merely a patient's dislike for a certain food or a perversity upon an individual's post. In general people aren't merely as allergic as they individually would have us believe they are. Doctors contend that the average allergic case is better off on a liberal diet with possibly but a few exceptions. Physicians are also able to determine to some degree just short of positive proof the presence of ulcer. Will the presence of a higher hydrocloric acid content in the stomach
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Dr. Alvarez had worked for weeks with me as an elimination diet and I responded the first thing by getting very ill on rice. Most everything bothered me and doubled me up time after time - and always we ended upon a blind alley. The stomach doctors admit that a reaction from a food test is not necessarily the same - the reaction to an intermuscular injection of a diminutive quantity of the substance in question - is that in the digestive process when a like substance may be rubbed into the gastric mucous membrane. Therefore sundry methods are employed to gain information in regard to an individual's food problem. There is no end to the trouble they take in an attempt to find a solution to your difficulties. By having the patient partake of the food directly and thus testing it and noting reactions, physicians can more readily and reliably ascertain results. They can then know whether there is an idiosyncrasy or whether there is a clinical bain or a mechanical reason for disagreement, or merely a patient's dislike for a certain food or a perversity upon an individual's post. In general people aren't merely as allergic as they individually would have us believe they are. Doctors contend that the average allergic case is better off on a liberal diet with possibly but a few exceptions. Physicians are also able to determine to some degree just short of positive proof the presence of ulcer. Will the presence of a higher hydrocloric acid content in the stomach
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