I have found some crew members are having stomach trouble.

Many persons run a daily temperature.

Do not take vitamins in transparent gelatine capsules. The capsule melts in the upper stomach can give you what feels like a stomach ulcer – too full, burning, pain after eating.

The cycle of temperature is different from one person to the next. In the morning the temperature is usually sub-normal (below 98.6° F or 37° C). In the late afternoon there is some­times a small rise above normal.

This is because the vitamin powder is dumped by the capsule when it melts into the upper area instead of the lower intestine as it should be.

This does not necessarily mean the person is ill.

A coated tablet is the answer. It’s called "enteric (for intestine) coated".

When a person has been sick and is running a "low order fever" in late afternoons he should be up and around and should be down a little while if he feels too tired and then get up again.

There are "'enteric gelatine capsules"' made which dissolve an hour after being taken. You put vitamin powder in them.

Continuous lying in bed because of a "low order temperature" will weaken a person.

To handle the "ulcer feeling" – pain or too full or burn­ing – one takes 2 aluminum hydroxide tablets (one trade name is Maalox No. 2) (chewing them up) and a few swallows or a glass of milk every couple hours and in a day or two all should be back to normal – unless or course you continue to take harsh, fast dissolving pills!

Low order temperature means one of a few tenths occurring once a day.

All people have low and then higher temperature cycles. It does not mean that a person is ill. The AMA, since it makes its bucks out of temperatures doesn’t bother to mention this in its medical literature and texts.

Silly Optimist: A person who expects to feel well all the time while running a meat body.