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TSM Chapter Five Stevenson refrigerator Phil gumboils Rob

In early spring Rob came down with several annoying gumboils and one night he asked Seth how he might get rid of them. Seth immediately launched into a rather hilarious discussion of the unsanitary aspects of a refrigerator in the bathroom. He made a few kindly but definite statements to the effect that we should know better, and suggested that the appliance be moved into the kitchen, where it would hold all our refrigerated food. If so, he assured Rob his gumboils would disappear.

“Do what you want,” Rob said. “I’ve got gumboils, but so what? I can live with them.”

The next day we moved the big refrigerator. To save my pride or whatever, I put the little refrigerator in the bathroom and turned it into a towel chest. The big refrigerator is still in the kitchen. I got rid of the small one long ago. Oh, yes—Rob’s gumboils cleared up in two days, and never returned.

TES1 Session 30 February 27, 1964 refrigerator kitchen iceboxes sanitary chiropractic

[...] Joseph’s gumboils are infections directly connected with the proximity of the refrigerator to more personal cleansing centers, and these centers should certainly be divided.

TES9 Session 510 January 19 1970 Simmons Tomoski chapter Hartley Pete

(To me.) Your gumboil had already begun in incipient form before you visited your mother (yesterday, Sunday, January 18), but is specifically caused by the meal there. [...]