This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at his home on Arctic Crescent, Virginia Beach, Va., this 15th day of May, 1934, in accordance with request made by Study Group #3, Active Member of the Ass'n for Research and Enlightenment, Inc.

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

TEXT

1. EC: Yes, we have the body here, [533]. As we find, there is considerable improvement in the general physical forces of this body since last we had same here.
2. And, as we find, now, as we begin with the changes in the applications, it will be well for the body to begin to move about and to be in the open and to exercise more; for the bringing into coordination those activities which will KEEP the drainages from the adhesions and lesions which have existed in the body.
3. We would, at least once a week, still have the deep manipulations to keep the coordinating and to gradually break up these adhesions in the caecum area and in the right side; and especially to keep those lesions in the central portion of the back and the reactory forces in the upper cervical and upper dorsal area in conjunction with the regular circulation.
4. Occasionally we would keep the Castor Oil packs; not regularly, but about twice or three times a week, you see, so that we keep the eliminations in the proper course and manner.
5. Don't get overanxious about self, but continue to sit up more, walk about more, and get out into the open more. But take it slowly, take it easily.
6. In the diet we would begin to change entirely. We would take more of the beef juices and more of the strained vegetable juices, or where vegetables are cooked either in steam container or in the Patapar paper; the juices of vegetables may be combined together and taken as a portion of the meals from time to time.
7. We would begin with citrus fruit juices rather than so much of the milk, though we would continue with quantities of milk and egg taken from day to day.
8. At least with one of the eggs taken in the day, we would beat up the whole egg raw into a full glass or tumbler of beer; yes, and it can be more than three percent, too! This will be helpful to the body.
9. Do not get so you eat too much; but be patient, be persistent.
10. Ready for questions.
11. (Q) How long should the osteopathic manipulations be continued?
    (A) Until the one making the applications is satisfied that the adhesions and lesions are broken up. THEN they should be continued once or twice in every two weeks, you see, so that they do not form again - or about three times a month.
12. (Q) If he continues to improve, when should he be able to accompany his mother to her home in the country?
    (A) In ten days to two weeks.
13. (Q) Should yeast cake to aid in elimination be continued, as doctor advised?
    (A) This would be helpful at times, but changing with the diet this will not be found to be necessary at the present. When necessary, be well to take.
14. (Q) When he is able to take solid food, what should be proper diet?
    (A) Let's take it along as we go! As we find, the beef juices and the juices of vegetables will be the first. Gradually we may add toast and egg and very crisp bacon and milk and the like. GRADUALLY these may be added, AFTER ten to fifteen days. As there's more exercise of the body, as it is able to get on its feet and move about, then the body will call for more of those pertaining to solid foods; but go at these easy. When it's begun, we would use those that we have outlined FIRST; then we may take the fowl - preferably the mixture of the white and dark meat, but don't FRY it! Let it be smothered, or the like - WELL-cooked.
15. (Q) Any special thing he should avoid?
    (A) Too much of starches that will cause the accumulations in the alimentary canal that would produce fermentation of a nature as of detriment to the body.
16. (Q) Is he taking too much milk a day?
    (A) As we will change these, as has been indicated, it will be altered quite considerable; but quantities can be taken, but mix it with other things, as we have suggested.
    Do these, and we will find we will bring for this body, [533], a COMPLETE recuperation from these distressing conditions which have existed.
17. We are through with this reading.

    Copy to Esther Wynne
    Copy to Ass'n file

BACKGROUND

1. See 533-1 on 4/13/34 and 533-2 on 4/16/34, with subsequent Reports.
2. Still improving, about a month later the third reading was requested.

REPORTS

1. 5/24/34 Letter to EC:
   Dr. M. L. RICHARDSON Osteopathic Physician General Practice - Ear, Nose and Throat
   605-6-7-8 Bankers Trust Building City Hall Ave. and Granby St. Norfolk, Va. Telephone Office: 26020 Residence: 27111
   Mr. Edgar Cayce Arctic Crescent Va. Beach, Va.
   My Dear Mr. Cayce:
   I am very happy at the results so far in your case [533].
   In the reading of May 15, the question was asked "How long should the Osteopathic manipulations be continued?"
   To which the answer came: "Until the one making the applications is satisfied that the adhesions and lesions are broken up. And then they should be continued once or twice in every two weeks, you see; so that they do not form again."
   They have used this to reduce treatment at this time to 1 per week which is not my understanding of the needs of the case. I fear this will hamper further progress.
   The case has been a very interesting one and I am glad of the opportunity you have given me. This letter is prompted by the interest you share and have manifest in this boy's recovery.
   With highest personal regards, I am
   Sincerely yours, [signed] M. L. Richardson
2. 6/28/34 At the open meeting of the Annual Congress of the Association, Norfolk, Va., the young man [533], his mother, and Dr. M. L. Richardson were present and reported the case. Their statements were simple and direct.
   HIS MOTHER SAID: "It is a pleasure to be here tonight and to present to you my son who was seriously ill some time ago. He was sent to the hospital and was operated on for appendicitis. We thought he was all right when he came home. In several weeks he was taken back to the hospital and the case was so serious they gave him up. He was returned home, suffering a great deal. We obtained a reading for him and followed the directions as nearly as possible. These treatments I gave him as directed and those recommended to be given him by Dr. Richardson are responsible for his being here tonight - WELL!
   DR. RICHARDSON SAID: "The mother failed to tell you that the boy had been failing for about six years. To put it more or less briefly: It seems to date back to a time when the boy was plowing and the horse stopped suddenly. He ran into the plow, which struck him in the right groin. That was some six years ago, and he had been ailing ever since.
   "Last January, he was taken to the hospital and operated on for appendicitis. He told me that he knew as soon as he came out they didn't get what was wrong with him. About April, he went back to the hospital. Well, he soon got worse and they didn't know what to do. They kept him in the hospital for about a week or two. He wasn't any better, so they sent him back home.
   "At that time I was called in, and I believe I looked the boy over first, and looked the reading over next. Naturally, after looking the boy over, I had come to some conclusions as to what his condition was. There was evidently some intestinal obstruction and adhesions; parts of his intestines were bound to parts that they should not be bound to - at least, they could not be moved. This was evidently held there by some adhesions, and that they didn't seem to account for all of the boy's troubles, that is, all of his pain, and it seemed to me that a lesion in the lower back was responsible for more of the pain than the intestinal and abdominal condition.
   "As I say, I came to all these conclusions, and I found that what I had gone to the trouble of finding out was already described for me in the reading, together with detailed suggestions for treatment. The first time I saw the boy, about the 16th of April, I didn't know whether it was any use of not. He didn't look any stronger than a bean pole. There wasn't very much there to work with.
   "I want to compliment the mother for her faithfulness in carrying out those treatments, night and day, without very much help. She kept up her part of the treatments and I gave the manipulations. Gradually, we obtained results. A large part of the lesions have now been corrected. The boy is here to speak for himself."
   CASE [533]: "I feel better than I have for years. I think in a few more months I will be perfectly well."
3. 7/06/34 Letter from EC to Mrs. [264]: "...It is fine when you can have the patient, the mother [1409] of the patient [533] and the doctor [M. L. Richardson, D.O., of Norfolk, Va.] to all testify as to just what results have come from following the reading, where everything else had been of no avail..."
4. 7/09/34 Letter from EC to Miss [605]: "...Another case was reported here at our Congress meeting; the mother, the boy and the doctor all told their experience. The young man was sent from the hospital to die; they had told him nothing could possibly be done, that he had lesions from operation after operation, that could not be broken up except by another operation which he couldn't stand. The reading suggested the condition was quite serious, and the treatment wasn't very pleasant - though it wasn't an operation. In two to three days he was on the improve, and after six weeks was up and back at work. The doctors say "Well, I don't know - but it's happened..."
5. 8/03/34 A letter from his mother indicates just how much was accomplished: "I want to thank you for making it possible for my son [533] to be so well off physically, for I feel confident that he would have been an invalid if we had not come in contact with the work of the Association of Research & Enlightenment, Inc.
   "We had taken him to the hospital twice and had four doctors to examine him. He was sent home as an incurable, so far as they were able to diagnose his case. I do not censure them; I honor them for being so honest with me and my boy.
   "I feel that your reading saved us from much trouble and many heartaches, and that it was the guiding hand of the Father that led us."
6. 8/28/34 EC's ltr. to Dr. LeRoy Coombs [D.O.]: "...Only very recently here in Norfolk, a case was reported by Dr. Richardson at our annual Congress. The young man had been dismissed from a hospital in Norfolk - by the physicians as incurable. Their prognosis was that the only help possible was through another operation, which the body could not stand. The young man was treated by Dr. Richardson in cooperation with the readings, and he is well and back to work and didn't have an operation either..."
7. 8/29/34 See 533-4.
8. 9/34 A.R.E. Bulletin carried a study of CASE [533].
9. Subsequently Mr. [533]'s entire family received readings from EC, including his mother [1409], brother [1130], sisters [[1129] & [2650]], wife [2753], son [2148].
10. 4/04/38 Four years later, CASE [533] Reports: "I am holding down a hard job at the Sinclair Filling Station. For three years I followed the suggestions in the reading and got very much better - then I overworked and had a second relapse. Now I feel very near normal. I am very grateful."
11. Twelve years after the first reading was obtained, CASE [533] reports: "I am now the Sales Agent for a large automobile concern and I'm able physically to do any kind of work I desire."
12. 6/13/63 GD's note: Mr. [533] now owns his own business and is still a hard working man. He says, along with Dr. M. L. Richardson, that due to his weakness he never would have made it through the years [after Edgar Cayce's readings saved him from the apparently terminal illness in 1934] without the aid of osteopathy, to which the original reading introduced him. He still uses also the Castor Oil Packs occasionally, when he feels a twinge of the old condition.

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