3/02/36 Letter-affidavit:
AFFIDAVIT
Before me, a duly commissioned Notary Public in and for the
District of Columbia, personally appeared [
808], who first
being duly sworn, deposes on her oath says:
For a period of approximately two years prior to November,
1934, I suffered intermittently from serious physical
ailments and declining health, was attended by several
leading physicians and well-known specialists, and expended
during that period substantial sums of money in paying doctor
bills. My condition gradually grew worse instead of better,
and in the month above named I sustained a physical collapse,
and was taken to the Washington Sanitarium and Hospital for
examination and advice. This Sanitarium is located outside
but near the boundary line of the District of Columbia, in a
suburb known as Tacoma Park, Maryland, and is provided with
modern and up-to-date equipment and facilities. My arrival
at the Sanitarium was followed by physical examinations,
X-rays, laboratory analyses, metabolisms, and special
studies, and when the Sanitarium physicians had completed
their diagnosis they announced that my sufferings were caused
primarily by an underactive thyroid gland. [GD's note: In
conversation Mrs. [
808] explained that the original cause of
her illness was the absorbing of lead poison from an underarm
(?) depilatory which subsequently was taken off the market.
See
808-9, Par. 11-A mentioning "mercury reaction".]
[
1/05/43 See
808-7 ltr.] They expressed confidence that a
period of rest and treatment under their direction would aid
in restoring me to health, and with this encouragement I
remained at the Sanitarium and was treated for approximately
five weeks. The treatment consisted of physical relaxation
and rest, principally in bed, a special diet, frequent baths
with alternate hot and cold water administered by a nurse,
hot fomentations and cold packs applied externally to the
spine and abdomen, baths in electric-light cabinets, and hand
massages. In addition, non-habit-forming sedatives were
prescribed and given to ease the terrific pains about the
head and to produce sleep, while thyroid-gland emplets were
taken to build up and increase the activity of the thyroid
gland. At the end of the fifth week I was considerably
improved, although far from well, and the constant use of
sedatives was still necessary because of severe pains about
the head. However, the expense involved in staying at the
Sanitarium was heavy and burdensome, and I therefore returned
home and gradually undertook to resume my daily duties.
Within a few weeks thereafter, I felt that my strength was
again diminishing, the headaches which had never ceased
seemed unbearable, and I again visited the Sanitarium and
sought further advice. One of the physicians informed me
that definite relief could not be hoped for until such time
as the thyroid gland was restored to a more nearly normal
condition, and that a natural rebuilding process to bring
this about would require treatment over a period of six
months to one year. I returned home feeling very discouraged
and despondent, and while pondering over the seemingly
hopeless outlook I continued to take sedatives to afford
relief from the splitting headaches, and took tonic medicines
calculated to aid me in recovering from a general run-down
condition.
It was at this time, in January, 1935, when I chanced to hear
that a Mr. Cayce, renowned as a diagnostician, was expected
to visit Washington in February, the following month. I had
little hope that he could add anything of value to the advice
received from the able and thorough physicians connected with
the Sanitarium. While wondering what to do, a friend said to
me: "After all, his diagnosis and advice will cost only
$10.00, a very small fraction of the many hundreds of dollars
spent in the past two years for doctor bills and for
treatment at the Sanitarium; no risk is involved because he
will merely diagnose the case and outline the character of
treatment which should be followed; so why not make an
appointment to see what happens." I felt so despondent that
I was persuaded to give him a trial, an appointment was made,
and on February 2, 1935, I went to Mr. Cayce's office, and he
diagnosed my case and suggested a course of specific
treatment.
I had never seen Mr. Cayce before, and he asked me NO
questions before the diagnosis was made, nor while it was
being made. Hence, I was greatly surprised to hear him
announce in medical terms the nature of my physical ailments,
the causes of my sufferings, and the character of treatment
which should be pursued to restore normal health. Briefly,
he declared that the blood circulation and the pulsations had
been adversely affected by a nervous condition; that at times
the heart pounded too fast and other periods it was too slow,
but that the real seat of the trouble was in the glands of
the body and their secretions; and that it was these glands
and their activities which affected adversely the nervous
system and the circulation, and brought about various
reactions and disturbances in the body.
After describing the nature and causes of the difficulties
experienced, Mr. Cayce suggested a course of treatment to be
followed, for a period of nine weeks, in the manner which he
outlined in detail. Specifically, Mr. Cayce suggested the
following course of treatment:
Begin with the application of the diathermy in a very light
form, alternating from period to period the plates or centers
from the secondary cardiac plexus, or the 3rd and 4th dorsal
center, and the 9th and 10th dorsal center, and in the lumbar
plexus, or to those areas from which the torso portion is
affected - or through which the motor axis of the nervous
system as related to the glands' activity upon the body
affects the system. So, the first would be in the upper
dorsal with the lumbar plexus; the next application would be
from the solar plexus center or 9th dorsal and the motor axis
- or in the 3rd cervical center. These treatments we would
take about three times each week.
Also each day we would equalize such vibration by the use of
the Radio-Active Appliance. This would be to equalize the
motivative activity through the nerve forces and blood
circulation, as to make for that assimilated to be more
properly coordinated throughout the whole system. This
appliance would be attached in the usual manner to opposite
extremities of the body, for thirty to forty minutes each
day, preferably as the body is ready for retiring, to the
opposite sides of the body; that is, to the right wrist and
left ankle, and when to the left wrist the next day attach to
the right ankle, rotating in this manner about the body. Be
sure the attachments are intact and kept clean. There will
not be any effect - that is, any vibration felt; but after
the body applies same in the course of two or three days the
effects IN the body may be felt, you see.
We would take internally only the atomic iodine, or
Atomidine, in very minute quantities. Take one minim twice
each day, before the morning meal and before retiring, in
half a glass of water. This will be acted upon in the system
by the vibrations set up both by the high or the deep therapy
from the diathermy applications, and the very low vibrations
that would be received through the Radio-Active Appliance.
Be mindful that what is assimilated or taken for assimilation
in the body is nerve and blood building, in a well-balanced
way and manner. Not an excess of any one element, yet it
will be found that when the starches and the proteins are
combined these will be better than the sugars or
carbohydrates with either of these. Hence, keeping these
well-balanced will make for the better assimilations to be
activative with those influences in the system as created by
the activity of the electrical vibrations, that stimulate
from the axis of the nervous forces and circulations of the
body.
Do these and, as we find - while there will be periods of
recurrent conditions, if these will be adhered to - those
reactions that have been had in various activities of the
glands in the torso, through the pelvic organs, those
activities throughout the system, will clarify themselves.
For to create the balance in the body that the system may
adjust itself may be the slower method, but it will be the
more EFFECTIVE and sure way of approach.
I took the typewritten transcript, containing the matter
quoted above, to Dr. Bolkhardt, a Washington Physiotherapist.
After reading it carefully, and himself making a physical
examination as to my condition, he expressed the opinion that
Mr. Cayce's diagnosis was a most remarkably accurate one, and
at my request he consented to apply the diathermy treatments
in the manner and according to the directions detailed by
Mr. Cayce. This physician, as well as another with whom I
later talked, said to me that medical science is aware of the
value of diathermy treatments for certain ailments involving
the thyroid gland, but both physicians were unable to
understand how Mr. Cayce could designate the particular nerve
centers to which the appliances should be attached in order
to give the maximum benefit. After the first three
treatments my headaches disappeared, and I gradually regained
my strength. By using the Radio-Active Appliance, designed
to equalize the circulation of the blood, I was able to fall
asleep within a few minutes after retiring, and the use of
sedatives to produce sleep was no longer necessary. Under
the treatments suggested by Mr. Cayce, I improved rapidly,
and soon began to feel like my old self once again and that
life is worth living. At the end of about three months after
beginning the treatments, I felt that I was entirely well,
and have since enjoyed normal health until January of this
year, 1936.
In January, 1936, I contracted a severe cold, accompanied by
fever, and I immediately called a physician. He diagnosed my
ailment as intestinal influenza, gave directions as to
treatment, and suggested that I remain in bed until the
abnormal temperature disappeared. His instructions were
followed carefully, but at the end of seven days my condition
was worse, and he then prescribed a new and different
medicine. At the expiration of ten days, the fever still
remained, my strength was waning, and the doctor advised that
I be removed to a hospital and that an X-Ray picture be taken
of the chest. My husband agreed that an X-Ray was advisable,
but said that it should be the "Human X-Ray", and he
communicated by long-distance telephone with Mr. Cayce, who
very kindly consented to give me a reading the following
morning. A transcript of the reading [
808-4] was received a
day later, and it described accurately the nature of my
troubles, and contained specific and detailed directions as
to treatment. The reading declared that there had arisen
acute conditions which were manifested by inflammation of the
mucous membranes through the head, by congestions in the
eliminating canals, and by tendencies for the mucous
membranes in the throat, the head, and the chest to given
pain, and that these abnormalities tended to create a
plethoric condition. It went on to say that this condition
must be corrected before the temperature would become normal,
and predicted that, if the prescribed treatment and medicine
were taken as suggested, all of the disturbing conditions
would disappear in two or three days. The instructions in
respect of treatment were carefully followed and on the third
day the fever disappeared and the temperature returned to
normal. The physician who had visited and attended me at my
home at the beginning of this illness, was much interested in
my quick recovery, and asked that he be permitted to see the
reading.
I am very grateful to Mr. Cayce for his helpful assistance,
and the two experiences related herein have caused me to hope
that I can again secure his aid should I become ill in the
future. HENCEFORTH, HE IS OUR FAMILY DOCTOR.
[signed] [Mrs. [
808]]
[Signed before Notary Public Etc.]
1/16/37 See
808-5, and subsequent Ck. Physicals.
1/37 Testimonial to Radio-Active Appliance - See under
1800-29 Reports.
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