This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at his home on Arctic Crescent, Virginia Beach, Va., this 26th day of July, 1936, in accordance with request made by the mother - Mrs. [934], through Active Membership of her husband in the Ass'n for Research & Enlightenment, Inc.

Present: Edgar Cayce; Gertrude Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. Mrs. [934] and L. B. Cayce.

TEXT

1. EC: Yes, we have the body here, [1208].
2. As we find, conditions are very serious and these may turn either for good or bad in ANY time.
3. The disturbances arise from a combination of disorders; infectious forces in the system, with a disturbed assimilation - that we have indicated would be hard to deal with.
4. As we find, the food values are wrong!
5. We would change the diets to the Carnation milk, making the formula sufficiently strong yet weak even for the age of the body.
6. We would purify the system by the use of the Castoria in the small doses.
7. We would have - with or at those times when water is given - the Yellow Saffron; for the internal system is in much WORSE condition even than that indicated in the skin or on the body and the mouth and the neck.
8. These places, to be sure, should be kept cleansed with an antiseptic as much as is possible.
9. Use as an ointment on same equal portions of Camphorated Oil with Olive Oil. The basis of these, to be sure, is the same - but these are rather strenuous on the body - equal portions. Use same after each nursing.
10. And DO NOT use other than the Carnation milk! Do not CHANGE from one to another.
11. Do these and as we find there may be the better conditions. Ready for questions.
12. Keep the body when IN the light, the face and eyes covered; for unless this is done these will make for conditions in the eyes that would be most harmful.
13. As to the dosage of the Castoria for the eliminations, we would give one to two drops. This may be given several times during the day, of course, or every hour or so.
14. The Saffron - do not make it too strong, but make a proportion of a teaspoonful to the quart of water. Let this steep for an hour and then set aside. Then make it palatable, not too hot nor too cold, and take at least a teaspoonful in a tablespoonful of water. And take this - when it will - between the meals, see?
15. And the meals should be given, as we find, no farther apart than two and a half to three hours.
16. The mixture of the oils, as given, should be equal portions. There should be used as an antiseptic for the mouth at nursing time that as has been indicated, but do not make same too heavy.
17. ANY condition may arise.
18. (Q) After each nursing, what should be used?
    (A) As has just been given, cleansing the mouth.
19. (Q) What should be the formula for the feeding?
    (A) As indicated, this should NOT be too strong. There are regular formulas for the various ages. As has been indicated here, it would necessarily be a little weaker than that for a month old, see?
20. (Q) Then, the mother should not try to nurse it at all?
    (A) Should not nurse at all! because this makes for the arising more of the infectious forces for the whole system.
21. (Q) Should the mother take him to her home in Ohio to rest up?
    (A) Will have to be in much better fix than he is in the present:
22. (Q) If improved, and she goes, should she stay there or return to Virginia and work in the fall?
    (A) This is a choice within self.
    FIRST there must be the consideration of the baby, if it would be kept alive.
23. We are through for the present.

    Copy to Mother
    Copy to Ass'n file

BACKGROUND

1. See 1208-2 on 6/26/36.
2. Aunt [288] reported that 2-3 weeks ago the mother got mad at the father, went out and drank beer - came in and nursed baby. Next day its stomach was upset and the rash started - got worse and worse. Dr. Waller L. Taylor said something disagreed with it, yet kept on recommending same milk formula - combination of mother's milk with cow's milk. The skin finally was drying up and peeling off, flakes of it, when the mother finally decided to get a reading. Even so, it didn't seem possible for the baby to live.

REPORTS

1. Mother subsequently phoned to say that two hours after the new formula the baby went to sleep and was quiet - the first it had rested following a feeding since the condition started.
2. 7/29/36 See 1208-4.

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