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Eve Drewelowe's journals, volumes II-III, 1950s
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import out to know in the control of symptoms. I always thought the Histamine was one of the worst tasks a human being was unfortunate enough to come up against. At that time I dreaded it more than a gastroscopy, perhaps because it is so long drawn out. The ill effects from a gastroscopy are of short duration. If not the worst test neither is it my favorite attendant. At the appointed hour I approached the young lady at the proper desk on the first floor of the Clinic. She took my card and me into the slender waiting room where I awaited my name to be called. The technician very shortly called my name and took me into her private-ward, made me comfortable in the cot and slipped the tube down my throat. Of course I had had no food or drink that morning. Test tubes were placed on the table and then followed the histamine injection. Immediately i was engulfed in heat; the blood plunged to my head and it began to pound unmercifully, violently. The technician dipped compresses in cold water and lay them upon my forehead. She began to syphon after ten or fifteen minutes. Whereupon the muscles of the stomach began contraction and the pylorus clamped down. I doubled up with pain. In the midst of syphoning the first test tube the technician stayed the procedure with the remark "This probably explains a lot of your trouble and pain. We
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import out to know in the control of symptoms. I always thought the Histamine was one of the worst tasks a human being was unfortunate enough to come up against. At that time I dreaded it more than a gastroscopy, perhaps because it is so long drawn out. The ill effects from a gastroscopy are of short duration. If not the worst test neither is it my favorite attendant. At the appointed hour I approached the young lady at the proper desk on the first floor of the Clinic. She took my card and me into the slender waiting room where I awaited my name to be called. The technician very shortly called my name and took me into her private-ward, made me comfortable in the cot and slipped the tube down my throat. Of course I had had no food or drink that morning. Test tubes were placed on the table and then followed the histamine injection. Immediately i was engulfed in heat; the blood plunged to my head and it began to pound unmercifully, violently. The technician dipped compresses in cold water and lay them upon my forehead. She began to syphon after ten or fifteen minutes. Whereupon the muscles of the stomach began contraction and the pylorus clamped down. I doubled up with pain. In the midst of syphoning the first test tube the technician stayed the procedure with the remark "This probably explains a lot of your trouble and pain. We
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