This Psychic Reading given by Edgar Cayce at his home on Arctic Crescent, Va. Beach, Va., this 14th day of January, 1937, in accordance with request made by the self - Miss [528], Associate Member of the Ass'n for Research & Enlightenment, Inc.

Present: Edgar Cayce; Gertrude Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. Hugh Lynn Cayce.

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1. EC: Yes, we have the body here, [528], this we have had before.
2. As we find, it has been rather late in beginning with the disturbances that have arisen.
3. These as we find are of a very subtle nature and unless there can be some activities produced in which there is assistance to the vitality of the body, in resisting the inroads of a tubercle [See 2/23/68 Dr. Wm. A. McGarey's ltr., 528-3, Par. R12.] in the nature in which it is involving not only those areas through the respiratory system but even the structural portions of the body, from which the blood supply attains or gains its division of a supply of element from which the red blood cells are builded, we find that the condition will rapidly continue to make inroads.
4. Hence we find that which may be of an addition is to disseminate - as we would find by heat and the elements that would carry those vibrations to not only the circulatory forces but through the muscular activities, and in such measures and natures to carry elements by the radial activity of their vibratory forces upon the physical body itself in the dissemination that they may be eliminated; at the same time supplying to the system those forces or influences that will add to the blood stream in such a way and manner as to give that resistance in the hemoglobin and the effluvia of the blood itself, those abilities to destroy or throw off the conditions.
5. As we would find then, over the abdominal area and especially along and over the lower portion of the lumbar, the sacral and extending to at least the lower portion of the diaphragm along the back, we would apply Castor Oil Packs. But first, before these are applied, we would sponge off the body thoroughly with a saturated soda solution - Bicarbonate of Soda, saturated solution; then apply the Packs - heavy oil packs, to those portions of the body.
6. We would begin immediately also with Ventriculin in small quantity; half a teaspoonful taken twice a day.
7. We would give most as the diet small quantities but often of Beef Juice; and little or none of those foods that carry any quantities of starches at all.
8. These as we find we would begin with in the present.
9. Keep up the Oil Packs for two to three hours, then rest a two or three hour period and then continue until there has been stayed this tendency for the formation of knots or clots by the blood supply attempting to make for coagulations; and thus forming in the muscular forces, and drainings upon the system at the same time, these hardened places - not only in the spinal area but in the abdominal area also.
10. These will need to be worked very fast or else we will find the activities gaining upon the strength of the body.
11. Use enemas rather than cathartics or laxatives as eliminants. These if they are given at the temperature of the body, and not too much at a time, will offer the better opportunities.
12. Ready for questions.
13. (Q) Ventriculin with or without iron?
    (A) Without the Iron in the present. Small quantity twice a day. If this disagrees with the body reduce the quantity, but if starches are kept away from and only Beef Juice given - not broth but Pure Beef Juice - we will find this agreeing with the body. With the Beef Juices and most of the other properties given, use Graham or Ry-Krisp or Rye Crackers or Whole Wheat Crackers as the bread - which carry little of the starches and sufficient of weight and cleansing for the system itself.
    But the resistance must be builded, the disseminations must be made before there is such a condition that hinders the abilities for resuscitation.
14. (Q) Is there any trouble in the chest?
    (A) Plenty of trouble in the chest, for there's little of the oxidization or sufficient oxygen to meet the needs. Hence we are adding to the system, by mouth as well as by dissemination, those influences to overcome these conditions.
    A little stimulant at times of egg cooked with whiskey would be well; with all the alcohol burned out of the whiskey first. To be sure, do not light the alcohol or whiskey with other than paper, else we would produce a condition that would be most detrimental. The yolk, not the white of the egg. This in addition as food values.
    These are very serious conditions, and are growing upon the body rapidly.
15. (Q) What causes the temperature and sweating?
    (A) As indicated, the tubercle. And it's attacked upon the blood stream. Hence we are to FEED the blood stream ALL the body will assimilate, see?
16. (Q) Is it best to stay in bed?
    (A) It can't do much else in the present!
    Plenty of fresh air. And if Oil of Pine is burned, or fumes of same in the room - these are helpful; as would be at times fumes from equal portions of Eucalyptol and Tincture of Benzoin - just the fumes in the room would be helpful.
17. (Q) What is burning along spine?
    (A) This is as indicated, the attack - or drain upon the blood-BUILDING forces of the system. Hence the necessity of the supply to the assimilating system.
18. (Q) Any further advice for the body?
    (A) Do these as we find in the present.
19. We are through for the present.

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BACKGROUND

1. See 528-1 & 528-2 on 4/09/34 & 7/12/34 for acne, which condition cleared completely with following the treatment outlined for it.
2. 1/08/37 Wire from [528]: "Give me physical rdg. in bed 8 wks. - is there any trouble in chest - what causes aching over entire body - what is hardness through buttocks & upper leg - what causes temperature & sweating - shortness of breath - is it best to stay in bed - what is burning along spine."
3. 1/13/37 Wire from [528]: "Wire immediately treatment hardness spreading suffering severely over entire body."

REPORTS

1. 1/14/37 Wire to [528]: "Sponge off with saturated solution Bicarbonate Soda then apply Hot Castor Oil Packs heavy over abdomen & lower spine for 3 hrs. rest 3 hours begin again. Also take Ventriculin without iron half teaspoonful twice daily. Small quantities Pure Beef Juice often with Ry-Krisp or Whole Wheat Crackers. No other breads or starches. Use enemas body temperature rather than cathartics. Full information special. Consult Mrs. [760] for immediate application suggestions."
2. 1/18/37 Ltr. from Mr. [2704]: "...Aunt [760] is coming in every day & helping Mrs. [865] nurse Miss [528]. She said she had never had such a case nor seen anyone in such a pitiful condition. [1312] talked to Aunt [760] this evening & she said there seemed to be a slight improvement..."
3. 1/20/37 Ltr. from [528]'s mother, Mrs. [865]: "...Mrs. [760] has been with us since the day I received your wire for immediate treatment. We have followed the rdg. in every detail. I feel sure that her condition is no worse, but we cannot see any especial improvement, unless it is that her color is better - not so pale. The swelling and hardness through the hips & upper legs has not improved. She suffered very much with the back of her neck & pains under the shoulders yesterday, however today that is not so bad. She is very sore all over her body, & seems to take cold each day, she sneezes & has great difficulty in breathing through her nose. She is not very weak & has a good appetite, her digestion is very good - sometimes has a little gas. So far as we know we are not giving her anything to eat that she should not have. No starches at all. We give 2 tablespoons of beef juice every 2 hours, egg yolk with burned whiskey in glass of milk at bed time. She drinks sweet milk with chocolate malt and a little cream with her meals.
   "We are so very anxious about [528]'s condition. We have had 3 doctors here, she went through Haggard Clinic in Nashville, and one physician from Nashville saw her two weeks ago. They diagnosed her case as hardening and thickening of the skin. They said there was only four hundred cases on record, and that very few recovered. Also that they did not know the cause. This hardness did not show up until about three weeks ago. Before that time there was a little temperature each day and her hands and feet perspired, also she complained of being so hot inside, and severe aching over entire body.
   "Mrs. [760] has wondered if we should have a specific diet. She is so good to us and is so careful that we do everything just right.
   "I thank you so much for your interest in us, and pray that there is some help for her... "P.S. Do I send a check for the reading given, or wait if there is to be another one? Please advise me..."
4. 1/21/37 Letter from [528]'s mother, Mrs. [865]: "...The physician who had [528]'s case in the beginning has gotten some information from a research laboratory, which is claimed to be very successful in this trouble. [Scleroderma] He thinks there will be a change in two weeks from this. In the mean time we are not using oil packs, but following your other suggestions.
   "Please do not give check reading until I let you hear from here.
   "Thanking you for your very great interest in her..."
5. 1/26/37 Letter from [528]'s mother, Mrs. [865]: "...We are so very anxious over [528]'s condition. She has not been so well since Sun. She awakened with a weak spell Sun. morning, with another one at noon, and one at noon Mon. She has not had any today, but is not as strong as she was before this condition came up. The hardness of the skin is very slightly less in the upper hips, but seems to be a little lower down in legs than before. From hips to knees, and slightly in arms and right side of back and stomach. She is very cheerful most of time. If you think necessary for check reading please give as soon as possible.
   "Have oil-packs been given so as to obtain best results? If not what change should be made? And shall we continue them?
   "What caused the extreme weakness Sun. and Mon.? Was the medicine given in the leg beneficial? Shall we continue with medicine which is being rubbed on leg"
   "What causes severe aching and soreness over body, and disagreeable odor under arm pits?
   "Is there any trouble with lungs and is it T.B.?
   "What causes continued sneezing and symptoms of colds, and is she getting enough oxygen?
   "Shall we continue ventriculin? What effect is impacted tooth having on body and is body in condition to have tooth extracted at present?
   "Please give specific diet - the diet suggested has agreed with her so far. We are so anxious to get the most out of the reading and do everything possible for her.
   "Hope to hear from you right away..."
6. 1/27/37 Letter from Mrs. [760] to EC: "...Mr. [[528]'s father] [1057] came after me again yesterday and was in there till ten last night. When they got the telegram from you Mr. [1057] came after me (I had told her if she would get a reading I would help her any way in my power). I was there for a week and she was responding right along and the morning before Dr. Stone gave her the shot of medicine in her leg, said she felt better than since she had been sick. She is in a dreadful shape, and I was never any more determined to carry out the suggestions the case being so unusual and getting no help from all the Drs. they had four Drs. here - two in Nashville and took her through the clinic in Nashville. Well, when Mrs. [865] came and told me Dr. Stone [Harvey Stone, M.D.] had given her this shot and changed her diet and stopped the packs, I was not in the room at the time; am sure I showed my anger for I was furious. To think after he had not been able to help her, and acknowledged she was better, flesh was softening, and her legs were like stone from her waist to her knees, right arm hard to elbow, stomach and bowels up under her arm and back up to shoulder blades hard, face dreadfully swollen and firm; I never was so shocked and distressed when I got there, we worked heroically with her and when she was getting better to step in and put a spoke in the whole thing, maybe you think I did not express myself to her mother and father plainly, and I came home. She took three shots, one each day and Sunday they thought she was dying. Monday another spell and since, shortness of breath. When she had this spell he stopped the shots. I asked them yesterday was Dr. Stone satisfied with experimenting with her. I had helped her with the letter for other check, so I helped her with the request last night, but, I said don't send for it UNLESS YOU ARE GOING TO FOLLOW IT, and not have any Dr. unless suggested by Mr. Cayce, I said if you will follow the readings, I will stay with you to the last; if you don't, I cannot see her experimented on, with this serious condition. Her condition has caused the concern of everybody here, and I never was so anxious to get her relieved through the readings, and I am just that interested in the work, and you, to do my utmost best to carry out to the letter every suggestion given; as I told them I NEVER QUESTIONED ANYTHING GIVEN IN A READING. I knew it was right, but her face and eyes were swollen yesterday and I feel terribly worried about her. The Drs. all say there are only four hundred cases like hers on record, and not one out of each hundred has gotten well, so you understand why I am so anxious for her case to get well under your treatment. I think so much of her and everybody in ... does..."
7. 2/01/37 Letter from EC to [528]'s mother, Mrs. [865]: "... Have yours of the 26th and note what you have to say. Will be glad, of course, to try, Mrs. [865], but do not know that it is best to try and do the Doctor's suggestions and the reading also, especially if they interfere; yet, know you cannot dismiss the doctor when [528] is so ill. Our first open time is Friday morning - hope that is not putting it off too long, but would have to change someone else's appointment to get it earlier. Know we are glad to try any time, but certainly do not want to make confusion in any way, know it is too serious a condition to do that. Hoping that will be satisfactory, or if [528] wishes it sooner wire me and will do best can..."
8. 2/06/37 See 528-4 and subsequently 528-5 through 528-16.
9. 3/61 HLC's taped interview with Mrs. [528] see transcribed under 528-16 Reports. She was cured in 1938 and had no recurrence.
10. 9/07/75 Also see her latest report under 528-16.
11. 2/23/68 Dr. McGarey's ltr. to those M.D.'s who agreed to either treat A.R.E. members or act in consulting capacity in re tr. according to EC readings:
    THE EDGAR CAYCE FOUNDATION Virginia Beach, Virginia
    Medical Research Division 4018 N. 40th Street Phoenix, Arizona 85018 William A. McGAREY, M.D., Director
    Dear Doctor
    As you can see, this is only a semi-personalized letter. Thus, you may or may not have been present at the 1968 Edgar Cayce Foundation Medical Symposium held here in Phoenix early in January. If you were, I am sure you will share with me my enthusiasm in an experience which, for the first time, brought physicians together to discuss concepts of physiology and therapy found in the Edgar Cayce readings. If you were not, you can find some of that experience still recorded on tape at the A.R.E. Tape Library (see address below) and available to be borrowed.
    Various parts of the country were represented Pennsylvania Oregon, Texas, Tennessee, Iowa, Illinois, Nebraska, California and Arizona. To add spice to the proceedings, two present residents of Phoenix who attended have spent most of their lives in Egypt and India, respectively.
    Most of the physicians in attendance, I believe, began to feel that the strange language of the Cayce readings was unraveling into understandable physiology. There began to emerge a recognition that the suggestions for therapy in the readings were based on physiological concepts that are only now being proven in the laboratories throughout the world. Strange bedfellows: - sleep phenomena, osteopathic manipulations, hypnotherapy, cellular physiology, castor oil packs - all these began to show relationship as the dynamics of the body, the mind and the soul as a unit were explored, even to the theory of the Dynamics of Human Interaction and Love.
    Use of these concepts in the practice of medicine began to be an idea with portfolio, so to speak, as case presentations were made - one a woman with scleroderma; the other a man with muscular dystrophy. Both of these individuals showed a significantly improved clinical condition in the early stages of therapy using only concepts taken from the readings.
    Perhaps the most dramatic incident of the entire three-day period followed the scleroderma case presentation. Cayce insisted in each scleroderma reading that this was a disease process that involved tubercle bacilli in the skin. When I presented the case, I reported this fact as one of the physiological considerations - since I was presenting the commentary as Cayce saw it. However, I apologized for his tubercle bacilli, since nowhere had I seen record of such being the case in any of the medical discussions on scleroderma. After the presentation was over, we were handed an article entitled "Acid-fast Microorganisms as a Possible Cause of Scleroderma". (Medicina Cutanea, Ano 1-N. 6-Mayo 1967, paginas 583-596. Editorial Cientifico-Medica - Barcelona) This article, written in Spanish, was given us by the prime author, present at the symposium, A. R. Cantwell, Jr., M.D., who did the work with Craggs, Wilson and Swatek at the Department of Dermatology, Long Beach V.A. Hospital. Microscopic demonstration of the organisms was made and Cayce's unconscious visualization of what he called tubercle bacilli no longer needed even an uninformed apology. [See 3/16/68 Dr. Cantwell's letter enclosing a reprint of the Scleroderma article printed in English.]
    You have signified your interest in treating A.R.E. members or acting in a consultation capacity when these people want to be treated according to the readings. What happened here in Phoenix last month was a long first step toward making your desire to participate in the research of the Edgar Cayce Foundation much more of a reality. We plan to send you information from time to time. We are making up a notebook that will be of reference help to you. A list of pharmaceutical suggestions from the readings is in the process of being prepared (early stages), and we have already put the 1969 Medical Symposium on the schedule for January 10th through 14th, which is Friday through Tuesday. The winter A.R.E. Lecture Conference for Phoenix and the southwest will follow this, the latter part of the week, for those of you who are interested. You are encouraged to write us for information or for any sort of help you will need in approaching the use of these physiological concepts in your practice of medicine. I would be most happy to supply you with all the information we have come up with to the present time.
    May you have a thoroughly vital and productive year...
    Very sincerely yours, William A. McGarey, M.D.
    Tape Library: Mr. Joseph Chevola 2312 E. Aldine Phoenix, Arizona 85022
12. 3/16/68 ltr. to HLC:
    SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA PERMANENTE MEDICAL GROUP 1505 North Edgemont Street, Los Angeles, California 90027 Telephone 663-8411
    Dear Hugh Lynn,
    I finally got the reprints of the scleroderma article printed in English.
    These "acid-fast" bacteria are a close relative of the TUBERCLE bacillus. Not too much is known about this kind of bacteria but more and more reports are coming out indicating they can cause a variety of diseases.
    Looking forward to seeing you in May. Alan Cantwell.
13. See Source File Key #528 for all current reports, supplements and professional commentaries re 528-3.

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