This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at the Tutwiler Hotel, Birmingham, Alabama, this 19th day of October, 1922, in accordance with request made by [40].

Present: Edgar Cayce; Frank E. Mohr, Conductor; Court Reporter (?) [Stallings, Brazelton & Hale?], Steno.

TEXT

1. FEM: Now, Mr. Cayce, you are going to sleep. (Pause) Now, Mr. Cayce, you are asleep, and all of the organs of your body will function properly. You will hear me and answer all of my questions. Today you will have before you two readings and two bodies. The first is [40], who is present in this room. Now, Mr. Cayce, tell me the physical and mental ailments that you will find within this body that you have before you present in this room, and if an operation is necessary, please tell me, and if not, tell me what will relieve the condition with the body which you have before you, [40], present in this room.
2. EC: Yes, we have the body here. Now, the abnormal conditions in this body we find are organic, and the reflexes from this condition existing in the system. Now, these are conditions as we find in this body, [40], we are speaking of:
3. The blood supplying force in the system has been kept in excellent condition for the condition existing through the other organs that are affected, and that would affect the blood if that had not been kept in the system, that has assisted to eliminate the poisons left in the system by this organic condition, see?
   FEM: Yes sir.
4. The hemoglobin within the blood is good. The numbers of the red blood corpuscles are numerous enough to care for the conditions existing. The number of white or leucocytes are over-burdened, without meeting the needs of the system to destroy the refuse matter not eliminated through its proper channels in the body. The nervous force in the body shows the effects of the condition, for through the nerve tissues and nerve ganglion we find the seat of the suffering that may be or is produced within any body, see?
   FEM: Yes sir.
5. And as in this body they show the effect of the condition that has existed and does exist within the body itself. Through the functioning of the organs themselves, we find the specific condition existing in the negative pole and this pole or through the kidneys themselves that the secretions that should be thrown off from the system have formed into a condition that exists within the organ itself. See?
   FEM: Yes sir.
6. These may be eliminated from the system by the proper conditions and proper treatment within the system. They have been cared for in a wonderful way here, you see.
   FEM: Yes sir.
7. In how the system has been prevented from creating more of this condition after it has once begun; for with any form of bacillus forming in the system unless they are speedily hindered by the action of the blood forces needed to form the warring forces against that condition, they build either rapidly or slowly according to the vitality of the system that has become attacked. See?
   FEM: Yes sir.
8. The action of the other organs in sympathy with these show the condition, especially that of the liver and the hepatic circulation, throughout the whole course of the viscera. There is expressions through the lymphatic forces and the emunctories as to the condition existing in the pelvis or through the kidneys here, you see.
   FEM: Yes sir.
9. This began by first the kind of water that was taken into the system, and with the system in this condition that began in times back, somewhere, you see, six or eight years ago, you see.
   FEM: Yes sir.
10. They began to show the effect of this within this body here, Mrs. [40], we are speaking of, the action then was to create this cilia force, sac force, pus forming force, that gradually became of a hardened force or condition in the body, you see.
    FEM: Yes sir. What part of the body, Mr. Cayce?
11. This course forming then in the kidneys themselves.
    FEM: What part of the body, Mr. Cayce?
12. We have just given this condition. We will get this here if you will leave this alone, you see.
    FEM: Yes, I see.
13. We are giving the conditions. The reaction to the system is to produce inflammation through all of the organs of this portion or through the pelvic portion of the body. See?
    FEM: Yes sir.
14. Creating inflammation through the bladder and through the discharge as given or shown from this, you see.
    FEM: Yes sir.
15. And as the secretions are thrown off, they express or show in the discharges from this - the condition existing in the organ itself. See?
    FEM: Yes sir.
16. Now, to relieve or to alleviate the condition through this whole portion of the body we would take those medicinal properties into the system that would alleviate the specific condition existing within the organ itself, and so stimulate those portions of the body that carry circulation to the organ itself, and stimulate the opposite pole, the liver, to take off or to prevent so much of the force being used or needed to go in the organ, the kidney itself, you see.
    FEM: Yes sir.
17. This we would add by manipulation and by heat as well as by the medicinal properties to be taken into the body. See?
    FEM: Yes sir.
18. For we find at the first lumbar ganglion those nervous and muscular forces through which the governing of the amount of flow of blood may be governed to the kidneys. See?
    FEM: Yes sir.
19. That is, through the nerve and muscular forces as expressed or shown at that part of the body. Stimulating these, producing the kind of heat necessary to this portion of the body to alleviate - will assist the body more thoroughly to prevent the creating of more of this in the body here, you see.
    FEM: Yes sir.
20. Then we would take into the system while this is being applied to the body this:

    Clarified Oil of Pine...............1 minim,
Oil of Juniper......................1 minim,
Sweet Spirits of Nitre..............1 minim.

    See?
    FEM: Yes sir.
21. This should be taken in capsule rather than in liquid form, so that the action will be directly to the nerve supplying emunctory forces in the stomach, rather than along the channel here from above, that is, through the throat or lungs; those would be affected if taken in liquid form. Take it in capsule form here, into the system. See?
    FEM: Yes, I understand.
22. Then apply heat of a vapor form to the lumbar and sacrum region, then by relaxation as by osteopathic forces; supply the proper nourishment to the organs of the kidneys through the circulation and by the stimulation of the liver to draw off from the system as much as possible, which can be accomplished in this way - the functioning of the organs themselves. See?
    FEM: Yes sir.
23. We would add that. With this carried in this way it would not be necessary to operate on this body. See?
    FEM: Yes sir.
24. Or to remove the condition from the kidney itself - the kidney - for the functioning of the organs about the case or about the holder, as we would say, of the kidney itself has not become involved - just the inner wall secretions have at present been involved. Do that if we would bring this body to its perfect equilibrium. See?
25. FEM: Yes sir. [End of reading]

REPORTS

1. 11/77 GD's Note: Immediately following above 40-1, EC gave reading 1181-3.
2. 11/77 GD's Report: Notice the method of suggestion given in the early days, by Mr. Mohr. He interrupted Mr. Cayce all the time to say "I see." This was often necessary throughout the years with the readings, as sometimes he would not continue unless receiving such a response from the Conductor. Here it is written out in each instance, whereas in the usual transcribing of notes these "I see"'s of the Conductor were not included in the transcript.
   Notice also in the first suggestion that another reading was to follow the one for Mrs. [40]. The other reading was given for Mrs. [1181]; see 1181-3.
   In 40-1, Par. 12-A, you will notice that Mr. Cayce appeared impatient at Mr. Mohr's interruption, saying, after repeating the question, "We will get this here if you will leave this alone, you see."

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