This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at his home on Arctic Crescent, Virginia Beach, Va., this 21st day of May, 1935, in accordance with request made by the wife, through his active Membership in the Ass'n for Research & Enlightenment, Inc.

Present: Edgar Cayce; Gertrude Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. L. B. Cayce and Hugh Lynn Cayce. Holy Name

TEXT

1. EC: Yes, we have the body, [438].
2. As we find, with reference to those injuries in the shoulders, the head, and those conditions that are the more DISTRESSING in the upper portions of the body:
3. While we find there is no internal bleeding in the present, there are those injuries especially in the upper dorsal and cervical that will require special precautions and special attention to be given. That is, let the body rest, you see. Do not attempt to move it or to make for changes, that are UNNECESSARY, until there has been sufficient time for the system to adjust itself to the distressing forces that have occurred in the extremities and in those specific portions of the body itself.
4. Keep the body very quiet, then, for eight to ten days. Then we may find that there may be the applications in other directions that may aid in making for the prevention of the scar tissue or lesions in the spinal cords or spinal segments giving distress later.
5. Just keep those necessary precautions about the face, about the upper portion of the body, and the extremities - that, of course, need local attention; keeping the antiseptics nominally, and - as we find - these should come along alright.
6. Ready for questions.
7. (Q) Any specific antiseptics that would be suggested?
   (A) These are being used; just keep those precautions. Nothing better than the iodoform used in the present, with - of course - the local antiseptics when the dressings are made.
8. We are through with this reading.

   Copy to Mrs. [718] - Special Delivery
   Copy to Ass'n file
   (Let us hear in eight to ten days, or when he may be moved, so that we may give suggestions for recuperative and corrective treatments to prevent later disorders. GD.)

BACKGROUND

1. 11/12/33 He obtained Life Rdg. 438-1.
2. 5/20/35 Wife [718]'s wire: "Please have rdg. for [438] soon as possible covering injuries due to accident. Important to determine action necessary. He is at Holy Name Hospital, Teaneck, N.J. Send rdg. to me."

REPORTS

1. 5/23/35 Wife [718]'s letter: "Thank you for your quick response and your kind letter. The accident was not as serious as the rdg. must have led you to expect. A Tuxedo matron with a dog on her lap lost control of her car and hit a car in front of [438]'s, and then hit him. His knee crashed against the dashboard and fractured his kneecap. It is a painful injury and practically incapacitates him for the opening of Radio City which just about breaks his heart [See 438-1], or else he'll have to be in a wheel chair.
   "The question at present is whether to operate on the knee and fix it up or to leave it to nature and naturopathy."
2. 5/30/35 Friend Mr. [257] phoned other questions. See 438-3.

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