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Aleister Crowley Diary Entry Friday, 20 February 1942
[I Ching hexagram] 40.
1 o’c 241 [asthma symptoms] and pain in side continue (1)[Heroin].
[Electrical] Pad temperamental: made towel-bottle. Pain relieved: 241 less.
2 3/4 (40). Not much use; no sleep.
4 3/4 (2)[Heroin].
5-7 1/2 Slept: 241 pain less. Phlegm looser: there was a lot of very tough stuff ?Try Riddell oil?
7 3/4 (3, 4)[Heroin]. Good brekker [breakfast], but it brought on 241.
9 3/4 (5)[Heroin]. Tot 11/12 Pain too.
1 1/4 more 241 (6)[Heroin]. Tot 1 1/6 gr.
4 o’c Temp 100.2.
4 1/2 (7)[Heroin]. Tot: 1
7 1/2. H.[ot] W.[ater] Bottle
8 1/4 Temp 102.1.
8 o’c here alone.
5 1/4 Dr Vernon, reasonable age, Kerubic Asc, very intelligent & observant. Made examination—said nothing needless.
Message [I Ching hexagram] LX Luna/Water See memo: Message re Dr Vernon LX Luna/Water. A pedant, stickler, martinet, inhuman.
Bottle helps pain: slept 9 1/2-11 3/4.
Woke worse. Much pain.
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