This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce in Hopkinsville, Ky., this 1st day of January, 1912.

Present: Edgar Cayce; L. B. Cayce, Conductor; Jno C. King, Steno.

TEXT

1. LBC: You have before you the body of Mrs. [538], who is about a mile and a quarter east of ..., on the ... Road, south side.
2. EC: Yes; we have her here. We have had her before.
3. LBC: I want you to go over her carefully, examine her thoroughly, and tell us what her condition is now.
4. EC: The general condition over the body as we have it here now is not as good as we had before, though we have some parts, here in the pelvis especially, that are better, and the condition as we have through the throat or thorax, or lower part of the mouth, or upper part of the throat, or the end of the tongue, is very much inflamed, though the condition as we find in the throat itself is in some conditions better; that is, from what produces it, from below.
5. The condition as we find through the lung is filled up more than we had before.
6. The condition through the colon, stomach and liver is not as good. That is, the excretory system is choked up more than we had before; the eliminating power, the resistive force in the body. The blood as we have it now is the temperature that still lacks the force that is used in it to produce a richer and stronger force in the body. It is carrying more of the bacilla [bacilli] from the hepatic circulation and not being clarified in the lungs, as it should be properly.
7. (Q) What is the condition of the lungs proper now?
   (A) The inflammation we had in the lower part of the lung here close to the diaphragm, and where the abrasion we had on the pleura and diaphragm below, is removed and absorbed into the system in itself, as shown through the condition of the liver, also, into the circulation. As to the lungs themselves, that is, the branches and cellular force as we have in the clarification of the circulation into the body as produced into the lungs, we have a choking up, or congestion, of the lung itself on the left side, while we have a fullness to that of the right. Especially do we find this through the upper portion and central part of the lung; that is, of the left one here. As to the throat, or what produces the trouble, that condition in the body has been improved, though it has gone back from what we had before.
8. (Q) What is the condition of the intestines and colon?
   (A) Packed through the colon. Lack of assimilation through the intestine, upper, lack of excretory and secreting properties of the liver in itself to carry off the proper secretions, both to the circulation and to the digestion. We have that of bacilla [bacilli] through the blood produced in the liver, or that in the form of temperature produced in the body, through that of inflammation through the lungs or throat and intestinal tract itself.
9. (Q) What is the condition of the stomach?
   (A) Lack of digestive fluid, or lack of power to secrete properly to digest or assimilate that taken into it. Lack of circulation being proper to these on account of the expulsion of the forces as applied against it by those of the expelling of the air from the lungs, producing to the diaphragm an extra force or amount of blood carried to that, producing an irritant or sickening to the stomach.
10. (Q) Is there any ulceration of the lungs?
    (A) The cells are choked up. Ulceration is produced from the throat and from the inflammation as carried back and forth from the excess of matter being carried to the lungs to be removed from the system.
11. (Q) Any broken cells in the lungs?
    (A) Only those as we have along the side or upper portion here; that of the bronchials themselves, or the beginning of the bronchials leading to the tubes themselves.
12. (Q) What causes the cough?
    (A) The inflammation in the throat and upper part of the lungs.
13. (Q) Any ulceration in the throat?
    (A) Yes.
14. (Q) Where has this hemorrhage come from, the throat or lungs?
    (A) From the throat. You see, we have leading from the throat to the bronchials and lungs themselves, we have at the conjunction of these the inferior muscular forces as applied to the expulsion of the air from the lungs. The inflammation of these inflaming in these glands to the bronchials, or around these, has produced to the throat itself, that is, to the upper part of the bronchials and in the throat in connection, the inflammation as we have. The expulsion of the air from the lungs ruptures these as they pass by here from the ulcerations. The spittle is produced from the congestion of the lungs.
15. (Q) Do you find any germs in the lungs?
    (A) Bacilla [Bacilli] and cell forces in the lungs themselves. In the left, in the blood.
16. (Q) Are they disease producing germs?
    (A) Yes.
17. (Q) What is the condition of the nose?
    (A) Very much inflamed sympathetically, from the condition of the throat. The catarrhal condition as we had produced from time back, but this is some better in the condition itself through sympathetic, but the inflammation remains, you see, through the nasal passage, or here in the head and face proper.
18. (Q) Has there been any hemorrhage from the nose?
    (A) No.
19. (Q) What is the condition of the spleen?
    (A) Lower end is atrophied, as we had before, through the sympathetic action of its force and of its supplying to the organ of the sensory organism, or the nervous condition in the body, which produces the pains we have along the spine, especially here at the first and second dorsal, as it shows itself and its forces and activity to the rest of the system.
20. (Q) Are there any cavities in the lungs?
    (A) Only in the central and upper portions.
21. (Q) How large are they?
    (A) Just begun, though they have opened larger than we have had before.
22. (Q) Do they contain anything?
    (A) These forces first open and gather to this same cellular force as we had before here, which is formed into matters of itself. We have a cellular force into the blood which forms around disease or formation of destruction to cellular force in the body - leukocyte condition in the body. As these pass around and gather these forces they tend to keep them from the system until they assimilate it or pass through absorption. In these the cells are broken and have shown in the lung tissue itself.
23. (Q) What is the condition of the heart?
    (A) It is over worked.
24. (Q) Why?
    (A) The increase of circulation, or the quantity of matter that is passed through it, or the blood force in its hurried condition to keep to the system as much of the newness of blood force as possible, though in the organ itself there is nothing.
25. (Q) What is the condition of the arteries leading from the heart?
    (A) Plethoral cellular force to the outside walls, from the rapid condition of the circulation. They are not of a nature to produce inflammation in themselves.
26. (Q) What is the condition of the pulmonary vein?
    (A) Gorged. [Engorged?]
27. (Q) What treatment would you prescribe to relieve these conditions and bring the body back to a normal and healthy condition?
    (A) The removal of the conditions as we have in the system through that of assimilation and absorption from the body as far as possible. We can assist the body to come to normal condition through assimilation by giving strength and force to the body itself, by producing in the circulation through the hepatics that of power to eliminate through the dross. As long as we keep the colon in the closed state we have we will keep into the system to produce more matter, and pick up through the forces as we pass through the lung circulation to carry themselves over the system. Remove the condition as we have in the liver and colon, and then put those into the system whereby we assist in the circulation in these conditions as we have through the blood force in the lung itself, or that in the form as we have had before, of the eucalyptol and turbene [terebene?]. This is the same as we have had here before.
28. (Q) What else?
    (A) We have it here: heroin, 1/16, to the dose; eucalyptol, 1 minim; turbene [terebene], 1 minim; creosote, 1 minim, to the weight, that is, to the digestion here, to the stomach. This goes into the stomach here in the form of capsule or pellet or liquid state. That in the form of sodas, also that of matters whereby we produce weight to the capillary attraction to the circulatory force into the intestines and colon, and hepatic circulation, those in the form of crystallized phosphates and of soda, here; salines, or salt in the system here, not enough to sicken, to produce weight or balance to the circulatory system itself. Then the treatment of the conditions we have through the throat itself, from above. The body will improve from what we have it here now. We can produce enough into the system to produce a wall around this force, this organ, then we will stop it here. If we don't, the ravages of the disease itself will carry on this force and produce more inflammation and distribute it through the system.
29. (Q) Do you know what this disease is? What do you call it?
    (A) We have tubercular forces in the lungs themselves. It is the ravages in themselves as shown through the throat now.
30. (Q) What laxative would you prescribe for the bowels?

    Anything more than you have prescribed?

(A) We have to the force here of salines and phosphates here
into the system for the stomach. Pass into the system here
through that of the form of oils, that is, injections from
the back for the colon, as we have here, into the system,
because it cannot be taken into the mouth here, until we
assimilate these through the sodas and salines, or those we
find through that of fig, cascara, aloes [Syrup of Figs?].

31. (Q) Any other treatment you would prescribe for the lungs?
    (A) Those of air and more of oxygen into the system.

BACKGROUND

1. See 538-3 on 11/22/11 for tuberculosis.

REPORTS

1. 2/09/18 Her third son, [487] was born.
2. 1/24/21 Mother, Mrs. [265]'s letter: "My daughter was entirely restored to health some years ago after a number of physicians, including specialists, had stated there was absolutely no hope of her recovery, from what they diagnosed as tuberculosis, limiting her life to a possible three months."
3. 12/05/23 She obtained a horoscope or Life Rdg. - 538-5.
4. 1/17/24 She obtained a Ck. Physical, 538-6, for pleurisy, tipped stomach, inflamed throat, vaginal irritation.
5. See subsequent Ck. Physical rdgs.
6. GD's note: Although her tuberculosis was cured, the engorged liver and spleen condition, atrophy, etc., must have remained - as referred to in 538-1 through 538-4, because on 4/01/45 she died within three months after the doctors discovered she had cancer of the liver.

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