4/04/34 Clipping from New Rochelle, N.Y. CITIZEN:
Roma Garrett Improving As Tests Are Made
She is Being Fed On Diet Heavy In Iron And Of High Vitamin
Content
Grasslands Hospital had good news of Roma Garrett today. She
was holding her own in a battle against practically
inevitable death after a day of sinking spells yesterday.
Doctors at the county hospital hope the little Peekskill
leukemia victim can live until her fifth birthday next month.
A diet heavy in iron and of high vitamin content has improved
the wasted condition of the little patient since she arrived
here last Friday. Further course of treatment has not been
definitely decided upon.
Leukemia is a recently discovered disease of the blood in
which the white blood corpuscles - fighting the never-ending
battle in the blood-stream against disease - gain the upper
hand also over the red corpuscles. Gradually, slowly, but so
far inevitably in spite of everything science can do, the
life-giving corpuscles are killed off. The Patient grows
weaker and weaker, is overcome in increasing intervals by
lassitude, the limbs are heavy with weariness, and finally a
coma envelopes all and continues until death.
Roma, the eldest of four children of the Fred O. Garretts of
North Division Street, Peekskill, is being treated at present
solely through diet.
Further blood tests are being made first to determine whether
the white blood corpuscles are being poured into the
bloodstream from the lymphatic glands or from the long bones
of the arms or legs. Depending on the sources of the disease
- if it can be discovered - the treatment will differ.
X-rays have succeeded in other cases in checking the ravages
of the disease and they may be tried for Roma. So long as
Roma holds her own doctors will not try X-ray treatment until
they determine from blood analyses whether that course is
called for.
Blood transfusions have not been considered for her type of
leukemia, the doctors said. If she sinks donors will be
asked for and transfusions will be given to keep the little
girl alive while scientists work against time in the
laboratories seeking a preventive or a curative agent.
Meanwhile; Roma remains in good spirits, unaware of the two
...[?] and almost hopeless battles going on simultaneously in
her blood and in the hospital laboratories. In the one the
red blood corpuscles fight for time while medical science in
the other seeks to pierce the mystery of the baffling
disease. Since its discovery doctors have found leukemia
rather common in patients formerly thought to be suffering
from anemia or rheumatic fever.
4/07/34 Clipping from NEW YORK AMERICAN:
JOY IN THE SHADOW OF DEATH
Parents of Leukemia Victim Still Hopeful of Recovery
While science says that death is inevitable for four-year-old
Theodora Alosio, suffering from leukemia, her parents are
clutching at the thin straw of newspaper publicity in the
hope that somewhere somebody will read of the case and come
forward with a hitherto unknown cure.
The child, resting amiably in her bed at Christ Hospital,
Jersey City, may have another blood transfusion today. But
Dr. Peter Manno, of the hospital, holds out no hope. For 30
years science has battled the disease and made no progress -
by the use of X-ray, radium, transfusions or arsenic.
Doctors are no closer to a cure than they have ever been.
Edward Alosio, father of the child, has offered the girl to
science, if not to save her life, then to point a way to save
the lives of other children. He and his young wife, Anna,
offer to do anything helpful.
Leukemia is a blood disease in which the white corpuscles
devour the red ones. [GD's note: See Par. B1 clipping above
sent EC by someone else, about the same time, on little 4 yr.
old Roma Garrett dying with leukemia in the Grasslands
Hospital, New Rochelle, N.Y., hoping EC can do something to
help.]
See Source File Key #534 for photos and captions associated
with above clippings in re 534-1.
4/14/34 Mrs. [
255]'s letter: "Mrs. [
509] and I just visited
this [Alosio] family and feel the mother has an open mind.
We hope that you will soon give the reading. Send no copy to
Dr. Rubin [H. H. Rubin, M.D.?], just two to me and one to the
mother. She hopes her own doctor will take the case. That
would be fine. We always have Rubin in the background. Ask
about the diet, please."
REPORTS
4/16/34 Immediately following 534-1 Mildred Davis asked EC
if he had any experiences during the reading. He said, "The
Master was right there by you." When MD asked what He was
doing, EC said "Just looking on," and explained that He had a
beard and seemed to be looking over MD's shoulder rather than
at her.
GD criticized MD for the method in which she gave the
suggestion for the two rdgs., saying that GC would have taken
534-1 first, and then the Ck. Physical
533-2, whereas MD gave
a First Physical Suggestion at the beginning of
533-2 instead
of a Ck. Physical. MD triumphantly stated that it turned out
alright, since both [
533] and [
534] seemed to get a good rdg.
[See GD's note under
534-2, Par. 8-A.]
4/16/34 GD's letter to Mrs. [
255]: "We are sending the
original copy to you also, as you will have to judge by the
child's conditions as to whether the reading should be
presented or not.
Apparently, the enzymes are put up under different names.
There is an enzyme combination called Ventriculum which
carries iron, but in this reading it sounded like VENACULAR.
[vernacular?] The doctor should know.
You are familiar with the Atomidine; I'm enclosing one of Dr.
Bisey's booklets on it.
The Atropine would have to be injected by a physician, of
course.
I certainly hope this reading has been worth while, and that
you can get it followed. It seems that this same treatment
would be good for that little Roma Garrett also, who is the
same age.
Love. Let us hear." Gladys
[Beef juice directions were also enclosed.]
4/18/34 Mrs. [
255]'s letter: "Just as the reading came, I
was going to send you enclosed clippings, hoping thereby to
prevent your giving it. But it is strange, is it not, that
the reading did not say the child [
534] had passed on on
Sunday [
4/15/34], the reading taking place on Monday
afternoon? Some day please ask for the reason of this -
perhaps the child - but then I will not say what I think.
I had no idea the time was so short, - well, God did not
wish it to be that way. I had hoped to be able to do
something worth while for your work, but it was not to be."
4/20/34 See
534-2.
10/28/52 Comment by D. H. Fogel, M.D. (heart specialist),
who made a study of the following possible cases of
leukemia from the Edgar Cayce records: [
13], [
534], [
1174],
[
1392], [
1905], [
2208], [
2456], [
3000], [
3616].
