This Psychic Reading given by Edgar Cayce at his home on Arctic Crescent, Virginia Beach, Va., this 11th day of December, 1937, in accordance with request made by the self - Mr. [849], Active Member of the Ass'n for Research & Enlightenment, Inc.

Present: Edgar Cayce; Gertrude Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. Noah L. Miller and Adolph K. Swartz.

TEXT

1. EC: Yes, we have the body here, [849].
2. As we find, the body is GENTLY but gradually on the improve.
3. The sources of the poisons, as we have indicated, and the effects of same that have caused and still do cause disturbing factors in the knee, along the spine, between the shoulders, and more recently in the activities of the circulation to the organs of the sensory system - produce specific or acute conditions.
4. Then it becomes necessary that there be the continued keeping up of the masseur's activity, the colonics to keep dis-coordinations between the cerebrospinal circulation and the lymph or superficial through the system, that there may be the better coordination between the eliminating systems of the body.
5. These kept much in the manner as has been given will, as we find, be the much more effective; that is:
6. The Fume Baths - these not too hot, not too long. These we would change somewhat. Now, instead of the Oil, use the Witchhazel in same. While this will make a tingling sensation at times to the superficial circulation or skin it self, owing to the elements of same, it will carry more healing now, and will be more effective when the rubdowns or the massages make for the changes in the system.
7. Watch the diets. Keep to those things that will aid in the eliminations. Build up the body with more of iron, as may be had from dried fruits, figs, dates, nuts and the like. Let these form a part of the daily diet, with plenty of oranges, lemons, grapefruit and especially FRESH pineapple - rather than the canned, for this particular body. The green vegetables; these well-balanced, well-cooked.
8. And keep mentally in constructive forces, and we should keep the better conditions for the body.
9. Ready for questions.
10. (Q) What should be done to insure the health of the entity during the remainder of the winter?
    (A) In keeping in these ways as indicated, so that we will eliminate the sources of infection by the keeping of the coordinations BETWEEN the superficial and deeper circulation, and keeping ALL of the eliminations cooperating or coordinating. Do not let the alimentary canal become congested. Use the colonics occasionally. Use then the better respiratory reactions with the activity of the Baths and the masseur. Use those things in the diets that make for the better balance in creating for the activities of the body the better actions BETWEEN the building up and the using of energies in the system.
11. (Q) I seem to have no appetite.
    (A) Change to these things as indicated, and these if they are nibbled along on - and not made just regular meals, you see, will supply energies needed and in manners as may be assimilated - and do not act like taking heavy meals at specific times. Do those of the animals have regular meals? Man's the only one that sets a routine for himself! unless man sets it for the animal and won't let him!
12. (Q) How often should the Fume Baths be taken now?
    (A) Once or twice a week. This depends upon the reactions and the feelings to the system.
13. (Q) What treatments should be followed after recovery to help the knee and back?
    (A) Keep the building up and replenishing through the oils and the rubs. These kept occasionally will ensure that causes are eliminated and the body building up generally.
14. (Q) Is the present trouble to be expected as an aftermath of future illnesses, or will it be eradicated after the present attack is over?
    (A) This depends upon just those things as indicated to the body from the beginning! This is an acute condition, but the applications of coordinating the system in its eliminations of poisons, and of the causes and the effects, should ERADICATE the condition - and not to be expected to be returning! though if the body builds that consciousness that "I've got a weakness or a tendency and must give way to it," then if you look for that, and know you're going to have it, you'll certainly have it! for the mind builds it then, and it must be met! For remember, ever is the individual constantly - in the physical - meeting that it has builded in its mental AND physical forces of its body!
15. We are through with this Reading.

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BACKGROUND

1. See 849-22 on 11/10/37 and subsequent Reports.

REPORTS

1. 1/06/38 Ltr. from [849]:
   Dear Eddie:-
   You have a heart that is attuned to trouble, so you will listen sympathetically to this story, and help me as much as you can, I know -
   On the Monday evening after Christmas I was stricken with an excruciating pain in my right hip. All night it plagued me, so that by morning I was almost mad. All I wanted was a doctor to give me some dope. Dr. Wheelock, who had treated me for flu, came over and prescribed the dope and also the new drug, sulfanilimide, for the pain. He was upset about my apparent condition, very upset. He said I had gone back, was not on the right track, etc., and all the time I lay there heartsick, racked with pain and not caring much one way or the other. The doctor then went on to say that I was too young to let myself in for permanent disability and that he was going to ride my tail until I was well... "If you were my patient, and you are my patient now, I'd take you to the best doctors in the east and to the Mayo Clinic if necessary, until you were cured," he said, "and I'd make you do it if I had to beat you over the head with a stick."
   Well, I could have handled that situation all right except that [1102] was listening to all this and [1102]'s faith in the work is none too strong. She talked to me long and earnestly while I waited for the dope, and begged me with tears in her eyes to promise her that I would stick to Dr. Wheelock and his methods. She was worried more about me than herself, and she said she would go to the the hospital [to have her baby] happy if I would make that promise. So I did.
   What else could I do?
   For three days I was under the influence of dope. Then the pain wore off and I felt a little better, although the drug knocked me for a loop every time I took it. Dr. Wheelock had a theory that my right knee was troubled with something that orthopedic surgery could cure. He sent me in, as soon as I could get up, to see Dr. Arthur Krida, head of orthopedics at Bellevue. Dr. Krida, after hearing the whole history of my case, examining the x-rays and me, said there was no case for surgery and rendered his diagnosis as arthritis coming from influenza - he found a little in the left knee (which is now out of shape and painful) and in the right hip. Now Dr. Wheelock wants me to go to New York for hospital observation under Dr. Cecil, the best arthritis man in the east, to find a cause and a cure.
   Now imagine for yourself what turmoil this has caused in my mind. I believe implicitly that the readings have diagnosed the case correctly. How then am I to feel as this mockery goes on and I get worse, as I undoubtedly will?
   Perhaps you can help me in this way. Does the description of my ailment as given in the readings by any chance tally with any other description of arthritis as given in a reading? I mean, is there a chance that it really is arthritis, and that therefore I won't be in too bad a spot under this doctor?
   If not, what help could I get from a reading? These doctors accept me as an intelligent fellow. I might suggest a theory or line of reasoning to them, and they might follow it - if the reading would give it to me. I might be taking a medicine on the side to help myself.
   What I see before me otherwise is pretty horrible, and no man, not even myself, deserves such a fate: dragged here and there, punched full of holes, tortured, drained of blood, stamina, and money, and finally thrown aside as incurable. Then, to come creeping back to my friend HAVING KNOWN ALL THE TIME THAT ONLY THERE COULD I GET HELP!
   What shall I do? I want a reading, if only for my own curiosity. It will be funny to lie in a hospital bed while learned doctors discuss this and that theory, and I lie there and KNOW - and cannot speak or help myself. But I might. Maybe the reading will suggest a way? Do you think it might.
   They are always closing in on me, Eddie, and I need your help. I do not understand why all this is coming about, but there is one thing certain - when it is over, either in victory or defeat, I will be able to say with St. Paul. "I have fought the good fight; I have kept the faith."
   Always, [849]
2. 1/14/38 He wired requesting a Life Reading for baby daughter, [1521] just born. HLC ans'd saying EC was ill and would get both the Life rdg. and [849]'s Ck. Physical next week.
3. 1/24/38 His wire to EC: "Did not receive your telegram until today - have not been in office for a month. Will be at home until Thursday - after that at New York Hospital, 535 East 68th St. Hospitalization necessary as I can no longer walk."
4. 1/24/38 P.M. See 849-24.

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