This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at his office, 115 West 35th Street, Virginia Beach, Va., this 9th day of November, 1927, in accordance with request made by his wife, Mrs. [...], via Mrs. [1866].

Present: Edgar Cayce; Mrs. Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. Mr. L. B. Cayce. Franklin Co. Sanitarium,

TEXT

1. GC: You will go over this body carefully, examine it thoroughly, and tell me the conditions you find at the present time; giving the cause of the existing conditions; also the treatment for the cure and relief of this body.
2. EC: Yes, we have the body here.
3. Now, we find the conditions physically with this body are rather of the serious nature. While there may possibly be builded that in the physical forces that will bring much better conditions for the body, yet there would remain even with this those conditions that would prevent the full normal activity of the physical forces of the body.
4. These, as we find, are produced by many varying conditions in the physical forces, and while much of that producing the condition was given or administered as preventatives, these were given without due regard to the condition of the body at the time, and the reactions as are produced in the physical forces from such applications, proving the rue and not assisting toward the physical well-being of the body.
5. While those conditions as have to do with the physical well-being are looked after in a manner in ORDER with the needs, yet there is in the minds of those administering same that of the uselessness of such administration. Hence these are NOT in keeping for the betterment of the body. Hence a CHANGE would be better, were it possible to have same attended in a different way and manner. Such would be accomplished either in Battle Creek or with Gilbert near Baltimore. These - either of the changes - would bring better conditions for the body.
6. In the change these would find that the history and the pathological conditions would be gone into in a different way and manner. Far from bringing any condemnation to those who have had the condition in charge, yet these have NOT administered in keeping with the conditions to be met - for the first, as we find, is from that of a condition in the system causing the reaction to glands AND to centers radiating impulse, or that effect of that which often destroys the reaction of the nerve portions as the gray matter in same, and is of mercury origin. In changes we would find these will be met rather by nursing, dieting, and air and heat and light, than by medicinal properties. We would change then. Ready for questions.
7. (Q) Will he get well? and if so, how soon? if the change is made?
   (A) Depends upon the reactions to the system. As we have given, the body may be brought much nearer to the normal condition, yet the results of that through which the physical forces have passed will ever show their effects in the system, though it may be brought much nearer to normal for better activity through the mental and physical forces of the body than has been for the times past.
8. (Q) What is the matter with him?
   (A) This is the combination of those conditions, as has been outlined, from that of the mercury effect on the gland and the nerve reflexes of the body, so we have a physical and mental and a gland condition to be dealt with. All the organs then show the effect of these conditions.
9. (Q) Which would be the better place to change to - Battle Creek or Gilbert near Baltimore?
   (A) Battle Creek we would prefer.
10. That is all the questions.
11. We are through for the present.

BACKGROUND

1. 11/01/27 Wife wired: "My husband has been ill for many months and is now in the Franklin County Sanitarium. My friend Mrs. [1866] has told me about you. What is his trouble? Can anything be done? Should he stay where he is?"
2. 11/04/27 Mrs. [1866]'s father, Mr. [287], wrote: "I hope he is not so far along with his illness that there is not a chance yet to cure him. He has been sick a long while."
3. 11/06/27 Wife wrote: "I am much concerned about my husband. What is the matter with him? Will he get well and, if so, how soon? Should he stay where he is, or would some change help him?"

REPORTS

1. 11/12/27 Wife's letter: "Your rdg. rec'd for Mr. [223] but is very different from what we expected. He has been told he had tuberculosis and is in a t.b. sanitarium now. Are his lungs affected? I certainly expect to carry out your suggestions. The 6th paragraph on page one is not clear to me. Could you explain it to me?
   "Mr. [287] and his wife are so interested, and we expect to go to Battle Creek as soon as we can make arrangements."
2. 11/22/27 EC's letter: "It is quite an undertaking to explain something to you that I don't fully understand myself, not being a physician, but this is my understanding, from the information given in the reading:
   "There is certainly no doubt but that Mr. [223] has some lung affection, but this infection is produced from some other cause and that caused from some medicinal properties he took years ago that carried mercury in some form. Hence the radiating impulses from the central nerve system brought about a weakened condition in the lungs. Then with cold or congestion, or something that followed, his condition was diagnosed as tubercular when it was not necessarily of that nature. Hence the suggestion for the change in the character of treatment, for it would be gone into, as suggested, entirely from a different pathological standpoint. I certainly am hoping that you will soon be able to make the arrangements and give Mr. [223] the benefits of the treatments in the Battle Creek institution."

Edgar Cayce Readings © 1971, 1993, 1994, 1995 by the Edgar Cayce Foundation