10/04/37 Husband [
228]'s letter: "[
313] has been through
a hard siege since Sunday a week ago. She is better but
still in bed. Now I will start at the beginning and give
you step by step her condition.
"As the August reading [
313-10] advised, she planned to go
to the doctor. We inquired all over town about the different
doctors trying to find a gynecologist.
"Thursday, September 23 she went to an M.D.'s office who
had been recommended very highly. He looked at her uterus
and told her it is twice its normal size, and he put some
pressure on it and tried to move it, but it didn't move, so
he said go home and take hot salt douches for two weeks to
shrink it, and if it didn't shrink in two weeks he would have
to turn her over to a surgeon as it would be a surgical case.
"We talked it over at lunch that day. She was very much up
in the air. We decided to go to an osteopath, as one of your
readings had mentioned that either a medic or osteopath would
do (Reading
313-9, Par. 8 of
2/26/37). So we found there
were two osteopaths in town, brothers, who had dissolved
partnership a year ago, about whom we learned in the
classified section of the phone book. We decided to look
them up, with the result that we chose the younger one
[Edmund T. "Pat" Flynn, D.O.], about 30 years old. His sign
on the door said that he was also an M.D. (which is a
requirement of Florida law). "She told him what was wrong
and he assured her that he could do the work. He gave her a
twenty minute treatment at a later engagement that afternoon,
Thursday, September 23. He told her she would be sore on
Friday. Well she was not, but her intestines emptied
themselves completely Friday. She went back Saturday the
25th for the second treatment. He was astonished to find
that she was still not sore, so he gave her a more severe
treatment, apparently.
"Sunday morning about 5:30 the pains put in appearance. Not
a sign of trouble or soreness had been noticed up to that
time. She awoke at 5:30 with severe pains and for two hours
we worked on it without even trying to phone the doctor
(osteopath). We concluded that the treatment was bringing
on a forced menstruation. She toughed it out all day in
continual pain, but by 11 P.M. Sunday, her nerves were
getting so bad she called the doctor in. He made light of
her condition, but gave her a hypo that night. She rested
easier, but no sleep.
"The next day the pains came back. He gave her a codeine
pill to take when the hypo wore off, if she required it.
She did not take this until Monday night about midnight.
She suffered throughout the day Monday and slept none,
although she did rest, with a little pain in the early
hours of Tuesday, but still no sleep.
"Tuesday afternoon the pain centered in left ovary and left
hip. The pain was tremendous and continuing. The doctor,
in response to my phone call, sent around some codeine
tablets about 9 P.M. No relief was noted so we called
in the doctor about midnight, but all he did was talk
and quiet her, and said that all he could do was to let
us continue giving the codeine the rest of the night at
intervals. Her nerves quieted some, although the pain did
not let up, and she continued not to sleep.
"Wednesday she realized that the menstruation was starting.
Pain in ovary never did stop. The doctor had given
instructions for her to take hot douches of LORATE three
times a day which she had taken the Thursday, Friday and
Saturday before, but were discontinued on Sunday when the
pains started.
"The doctor had made an engagement for us to go to his
office Wednesday afternoon at 6 P.M. for a treatment on
the electric therapy machine, which he did. This was the
29th. He had said this would relieve her pain.
"We thought that this would be in harmony with your reading
of Monday, September 27 [313-11], about which you had wired
us.
"Regardless of her menstruation I took her to the doctor's
office in the car and parked right in front of the building
in which he has his office (on second floor). He gave her
twenty minutes treatment with the electric machine.
"To revert somewhat. On Sunday she discharged blood;
Monday ropes of thick pus all day; Tuesday bloody pus;
Wednesday menstruation.
"She had a very severe night Wednesday, during which she
took no dope.
"Thursday was a very hard day. At 1:30 P.M. she had crying
spell. At 6 P.M. slight chill, likely from nerves. Cried
again. Took four sleeping tablets that night without effect,
except perhaps a nap or so of ten or fifteen minutes. She
did sleep Thursday afternoon perhaps half hour.
"Friday A.M. at 4:20 she suffered the hardest chill
imaginable, lasting about thirty minutes. Called doctor,
although chills stopped just before he arrived. He gave her
a hypo (although he seriously objects to giving them or
prescribing dope).
"She had a couple of short naps during the day Friday.
Ovary pain was continuous, which we finally checked early
Saturday morning by using hot water bottle on top and
electric pad to back and hip on left side.
"On Saturday she took several short naps, but with a
somewhat nervous condition flaring up once in a while. She
had vomited off and on throughout the week and had slight
desire of food, although she ate by force at each meal time.
She rested considerably Saturday.
"Saturday night she experienced not much pain and slept
intermittently but highly nervous at times. Menstruation
checked up.
"Sunday morning she felt very good. Slept over an hour
along about 8 A.M. By noon had nervous condition and unable
to eat meal brought to her. Ate small supper. Weather
turned many degrees warmer, which was annoying. I tried
to get her to sleep Sunday night, last night. She did
not, however, sleep at all last night.
"At present (7 A.M. no pain and quiet).
"The doctor has continued to state that what he did did not
bring on the trouble. He admitted that it brought on the
menstruation, but not the other pains. He wants to use
X-ray. [
313] is not willing to take anymore treatments
from him of any kind. Have not told him about you. Do
not believe he will accept it, but he may try to be stubborn.
"[
313]'s trouble now, when in pain, is in left hip, which
comes and goes.
"Please tell me what you think of all this. Do you think
she needs any kind of nerve medicine and can you recommend
some kind that will break up her sleepless condition?
"In case we correspond with you later this will serve as
a history of the case to date.
"We have a splendid colored nurse during the day while I am
absent.
"Soreness continues in abdomen from doctor's treatment."
10/06/37 EC gave her a check reading
313-12.
10/06/37, Wednesday night, husband [
228]'s letter [not
knowing that the check reading
313-12 had been given that
afternoon]:
"[
313]'s condition up to Monday was given you in our letter
of the 4th. All day Monday she suffered from nausea, and
the doctor had given her antacid to try to get her to retain
the solid food which she had been trying to eat at his
suggestion. At 4 P.M. her common sense told her she ought to
get rid of that food, so she took a half teaspoonful of soda
in a glass of water, and it looked like quarts of very
odorous matter came up, which relieved her a great deal.
"She had some cream of wheat prepared for supper that night,
ate, and retained it. She had a very hard night from a
nervous standpoint. No sleep, when her nerves would get up
in the air the pains would go all over her back and only way
it was relieved was by hot electric pad.
"The vomiting condition had been, up to yesterday, an every
day occurrence, doubtless because the doctor suggested her
eating solid food.
"Tuesday morning she said 'No more solid food, as long as
I am in the bed, doctor or no doctor, as long as my stomach
rebels.' Thus she cut out the solid food and went on a
liquid diet.
"Tuesday while I was at lunch her nerves went all to pieces
with the pain in her back. During her several days in bed
prior to that she had had at various and recurring times
severe pains in her hips, left hip mostly, right hip
slightly, all over bowels, left ovary, until menstruation
stopped and then to the small of the back.
"She made up her mind Tuesday afternoon she would definitely
have to have another doctor. I called an M.D., but he was
too busy to come so we compromised on calling an osteopath,
a brother to the one we had had. I went to see him and told
him frankly before he came what unsatisfactory treatment we
had had at the hands of his brother, so he said he would come
right on around to our room at the hotel. He arrived at 6
P.M. on Tuesday. [Dr. Emmett W. Flynn, D.O.]
"The first thing he did was to take the temperature. It was
101. Then he asked how much she had been running and our
answer was that it had never been taken before. His brother
had only taken blood pressure and pulse, not telling us the
figure on either.
"He immediately pitched in and started a treatment from head
to foot, a treatment to counteract what his brother had done.
I asked him if he would mind listening while I read him an
outline of my wife's case while he worked, and he said to go
ahead. Without letting him know the source, and eliminating
the preliminary openings I read him all the readings on
[
313] since 1931. He was sincerely impressed and remarked
that 'He surely does know anatomy,' 'he' of course meaning
you. It took me about an hour to read them, and he said he
was willing to cooperate with anything you said. I then told
him many things about you, and he seems to have considerable
respect for your knowledge.
"Your readings suggested treatments every other day for a
while, which is his present schedule. As he becomes familiar
with the case, I am sure he may submit some questions for
you.
"By 11 P.M. Tuesday [
313] had quieted down and become calm,
although she still was unable to sleep until about 7 o'clock
this morning and slept about an hour. That was the first
night since Sunday, September 2 that she had enjoyed a
natural quietness. Lying awake and getting hungry, she
insisted on my giving her twice some grape juice which must
have been the cause of her losing her breakfast this morning.
"I called the new doctor and he suggested that I get some
'Eskay's Neuro-Phosphate' and give a teaspoonful in two
tablespoonsful of water just before each meal, for a while.
This was done at lunch today and also for supper, and appears
to be working okay, although she did have some distress in
her bowels at eating, but has retained her food. Her
temperature has varied all day between 100 and 101 according
to the thermometer we purchased last night.
"I am planning to sleep in an adjoining room tonight and let
her try the bed by herself to see if she can get some sleep.
"All in all just about all the pains have about disappeared,
most of which we attribute to the new doctor [Emmet W. Flynn,
D.O.]. Her nerves have been steadier since the new doctor
treated her. He will be back tomorrow night at 8 o'clock
and we hope he will continue the good work that we now feel
he has started.
"Having burdened you with much scribbling I'll now give you
some relief by signing off. Incidentally, as I sign this in
closing, [
313] appears to be sleeping quite naturally."
10/12/37 See husband's letter under
313-13, Par. R1 in re
correctness of the reading as to her condition the day he
wrote the
10/06/37 letter.
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