This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at his office, 115 West 35th Street, Virginia Beach, Va., this 2nd day of August, 1930, in accordance with request made by his parents.

Present: Edgar Cayce; Mrs. Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. [161]'s parents.

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1. GC: You will have before you [161], in the Cayce Hospital, 105th St., Virginia Beach, Va., his parents and their enquiring minds, present in this room, the doctors and nurses in charge of the hospital, and all the surroundings of the body. You will answer the questions we will ask you regarding these.
2. EC: We have the body, [161], this we have had before. Also the enquiring minds of the parents and the Conditions as surround the body, [161].
3. In the conditions as surround the body, in the body physical we find - as has been given - there are the possibilities of there being created, with the proper attention and the proper accentuation of physical conditions existent, with the addition of vibratory forces as may change the physical conditions existent, for the betterment. Ready for questions.
4. (Q) Is it true, as Dr. Lydic says, that the body cannot receive any benefit at Cayce Hospital?
   (A) If the applications are made in that manner, in that attitude, without the expecting of results, without the desiring of showing results, then it cannot receive, under that environment, any good.
5. (Q) Are treatments being given in accordance with the readings, and in cooperation?
   (A) They have not been given in the manner outlined, nor in cooperation with that as has been given.
6. (Q) Can treatments be given at home? If so, what treatments and how given?
   (A) These may be given in part, as has been outlined. This may be determined by the building or the using of those battery applications in the home, and by the manipulations as may add TO the nerve forces of system in a manner as to enliven and change the conditions in the physical forces of the body.
7. (Q) What kind of battery should be used?
   (A) That as has been outlined for the body, as may be builded in this manner: In the preparation there should be that of a container of glass, or crock, that would hold at least two gallons of rain water. Put IN same a gallon and a half of rain water. In this put:

   Copper Sulphate..............1 1/2 lbs.,
Sulphuric Acid C.P...............1 ounce,
Common Zinc......................3 drams.

   Prepare then two poles that would extend into solution. These may be made one-half inch wide, one-eighth inch thick, sixteen inches long; one of copper, the other of nickel. They may be round, or they may be flat. If round, they may be of the nature of a quarter, or half, or larger. These projecting through the wood cover for the container, would be of a very FLEXIBLE wire, for this solution, as is seen, charges itself. To that of the copper pole attach the copper wire; that is, covered wire, flexible. To the end of this make an anode or plate that is attached to the end, so it may be attached to the body, see? This plate, or anode, of thin sheet copper. To the other pole we would attach another wire, which would be made longer. In the middle we would make a flexible, or lead lead, that may be bended to go through a SOLUTION, as has been OUTLINED in the first information; two characters of solution. Hence we would make two leads from these, and to the end of the metal or lead wire attach another flexible wire, with an anode of a LARGER diameter of German silver, or of nickel - thin sheet nickel, that may be attached to the body, see? These would be given in the manner as has been outlined, see? When this solution has been used for twenty-six days, then it may be remade again, using the same APPLIANCES but CHANGING the solution. This may be made and used in the home. This, with the manipulations and massage, and care, will GIVE as the SAME - and the BETTER - under the supervision OF those seeking to give that benefit to the body as may accrue from the use of these applications in the body. Do that.
8. (Q) Is Virginia Beach the proper climate for his asthmatic condition?
   (A) Virginia Beach is a good climate for ANY condition, provided there are set up the proper vibrations. A HIGHER altitude, or home, is a BETTER, in the PRESENT conditions.
9. (Q) If it is decided by the parents to put him in an institution, which one and where would be best - considering that he is physically AND mentally deficient?
   (A) As we find, Still-Hildreth of Macon, Missouri - these are considerate of both characters of conditions.
10. (Q) Where would be a suitable place near home?
    (A) We do not find one that accords in the same manner; though the treatments, as we find, may be given in the home. These are even better than in an institution, where these may NOT be applied - for, as WE find, the hope comes from the manipulation, as well as the battery appliance. In the Still-Hildreth the conditions will be considered from the purely mechanical conditions; that is, of the manipulations and those of the scientific applications for such conditions; but in the home would be the more accurate, and the better condition for the whole of the applications.
11. (Q) If the present nurse leaves, where could the parents find another?
    (A) Under different circumstances, under different surroundings, we do not find the present nurse leaving.
12. (Q) Who could give the manipulations?
    (A) The nurse may give them very good, and by the DIRECTIONS as may be given from time to time will aid materially in the assistance of the benefits for the body, [161].
13. (Q) Is there any advice for the parents that will help or aid them under existing conditions?
    (A) Give that as has been outlined, and - as we find - with patience, persistence, and consistency throughout, on the part of those seeking to be of aid, good - and benefits - will come from same. We are through for the present.

    Copy to Parents
    Copy to Ass'n office

REPORTS

1. 10/16/56 GD talked with [161]'s mother who said they were not able to follow out the reading; [161] died when he was seventeen years old; that is, six years after the readings were given.
2. 7/60 Dr. Pahnke's resume of epilepsy cases included this note: "I classified this case in group 1. Convulsions were recorded in the hospital records when the patient was cared for in the Cayce Hospital. Convulsions and Convulsive Tremors over the entire body were given as part of the history of the case. There was scar tissue of the brain. Therefore, this case was probably grand mal epilepsy, but not of the lacteal duct type. In addition, this patient appeared to have other effects besides convulsions resulting from the brain damage. These other symptoms included loss of normal talking, inability to walk, left side paralysis, rapid painful breathing of an asthmatic type, and an enormous appetite. These symptoms would indicate mental retardation from brain injury."
3. 9/26/74 Note received from [161]'s mother requesting information for a friend. [161]'s mother is currently a member of A.R.E.

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