Aleister Crowley Diary Entry

Thursday, 20 June 1901

 

 

Am very ill—pains, head, etc.

     

Drank 1/2 bott[le] wine at lunch and went to bed taking 6 pills diaphoretic. Temp 100.

     

Woke 2 h[ou]rs later not perspiring but fearfully hot. Started Quinine, Temp varied from 102 1/2 - 1903 1/2 for hours.  Took 70 gr[ains] Q[uinine] S[ulphate] in all.

     

Temp. slowly subsiding, then profuse perspiration.

     

Alice [Mary Rogers] very good and kind to me.

     

Guide returned having fixed 2 rooms for me [in Kamakura][1].

 

 

1—Kamakura is located about 50 kilometres (31 miles) south-south-west of Tokyo.

 

 

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