(Q) What amount of food should be taken at a time, and
how often?
(A) Cut the quantity in half of that as has been given, and
give about half the number of times as has been feeding, see?
until the conditions are reduced.
Well that enemas be used of lukewarm water, but not
sufficient should these be taken as to cause the distress
of the hernia condition, see? Well that lower intestines,
though, be cleansed. This will reduce temperature also,
you see.
Inhalations should be taken whenever necessary, see? at least
once - twice each day, or in evenings, if more than one is
necessary, see?
The massage or the rubs with the cocoa-quinine - coco
butter - over the spinal system, should be at least once
each day - well rubbed in, see? Massage about the hernia,
and those portions of the system that show those abrasions
at present, with the Iodex, about twice each day, and
especially after a movement or action from the bowels, see?
that we may reduce the temperature and inflammation. Do
that.
That is all the questions.
We are through for the present.
BACKGROUND
See
318-4 on
3/11/26 with further advice for treating
inguinal hernia.
9/14/26 Mother [
780] wired for emergency reading, not
indicating the particular problem.
REPORTS
9/19/26 Traveling salesman father [
779]'s letter: "I had
letter from wife [
780] saying that she had asked for reading
for [
318] and that she was expecting to hear from you at any
time. She said that he had some kind of breaking out which
caused him to be swollen quite a bit, also he had been having
some pretty bad sores."
10/29/26 Father [
779]'s letter: "[
318] is outgrowing
anything I ever saw, very strong and well in every way,
with the exception of the hernia, but we are still in
hopes this will in time correct itself."
11/28/26 Mother [
780]'s letter: "I received the reading for
little [
318], and I think everything was as you had said, he
just did fine and has been ever since. Dr. Nona Grapes,
neuropath, has been treating him for his hernia, I thought
one time it was doing fine, but for the last two weeks it
has been down a great deal. She has often wondered if she
was treating him like she should. [
318] has been walking
everywhere for about three weeks, and trying to talk, he has
four teeth, and is so sweet and smart, wish you could see
him."
12/08/26 EC's letter: "I'm sorry he's still having trouble
with that hernia, but I believe those treatments and the
wearing of that truss should eventually make him overcome
this, without the operation. I certainly am hoping so
anyway. I know you realize that the biggest factor is his
diet and attention to his bowels, and one in his condition,
age, activities and development, it's one of the hardest
things to deal with - but I'm in hopes it works out alright."
4/14/27 Father [
779]'s letter: "[
318] has not been so
well. He is now cutting his ... teeth, so it kinda tore
his little self up. He is very strong and large for his
age." [Subsequent letters from his father were received as
follows:]
8/07/27 "[
318] is growing very fast and we think he is so
bright. His hernia condition has not gotten any better but
gets rather large at times; since he has gotten to run and
jump about it is hard to control, so many people have told
us of such cases where as they grow older it will heal, we
think when he gets old enough to help keep it up, will do
as much to help as anything."
8/29/27 "I am thankful to you for your thought of sometime
to take a reading on the condition of [
318]. I am sure it
will not hurt, and maybe some way the condition can be
checked. I sure hope so anyway. I don't see how he can be
as good as he is with the condition, because I have talked
to grown people who are troubled the same way and they tell
me it is very painful at times. So at some spare time we
will go over the case, and you can arrange questions to cover
the case as to how we can make a bandage to keep it up."
10/09/27 "[
318] is as well and strong as he can be, with the
exception of the hernia at times, we will give this a little
more time to see if the condition will better itself as he is
now getting where he can aid in controlling same."
1/03/28 "[
318] has had a very bad cold for several days,
for two nights he had a pretty hard time with the croup.
We watched him pretty close so to note any symptoms of
pneumonia, if he had we would very soon gotten in touch
with you, but at present we have the cold under control."
4/13/30 "[
318] has the measles."
3/08/31 "Somehow our boy [
318] has always had in his mind
that he would go to the Beach and go to the Cayce Hospital
and get well from his trouble since baby, but he now says he
can't go to the hospital and get well." [Cayce Hospital was
closed last month.]
5/22/32 "[
318] is just fine - has grown quite a bit - a
real boy. He still has that rupture condition, and still
wears diapers to support him. He never complains of the
condition. He is large enough now to aid himself in keeping
it up. He was old enough to start school the first of the
year, but would not start him till the beginning of the next
term."
2/12/33 "I want to get a reading for [
318]. I want to get
him filled out. He is shedding his teeth now too, but I
think he is rather thin; also I will want to know as to his
rupture condition. Maybe that he will have an operation to
cure it. It doesn't give him any trouble other than having
to wear very tight diaper to support him, which is very
uncomfortable and, too, he doesn't think he is a baby any
longer."
4/22/33 See
318-6.



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