This Psychic Reading given by Edgar Cayce at his home on Arctic Crescent, Virginia Beach, Va., this 12th day of March, 1938, in accordance with request made by the self - Miss [1548], new Associate Member of the Ass'n for Research & Enlightenment, Inc., recommended by her sister and mother, Mrs. [1523] and Mrs. [1541].

Present: Edgar Cayce; Gertrude Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. Miss [1548], Mrs. [1523], Mrs. [1541], and Mrs. [...].

TEXT

1. EC: Yes, we have the body here, [1548].
2. Now as we find, the conditions and the causes of same are rather specific. The effects of the disturbances have been the more often called the causes, rather than that which is as we find producing same.
3. These are affectations to the pulmonary circulation and the associations of the activities of the disturbances there upon the rest of the system.
4. However, as we find, the causes arise from pressures which exist in the cerebrospinal system; and - through the deflected nerve portions of the system - have thickened tissue, producing pressure upon the capsule of the lung.
5. Thus we find the disturbance and inflammation caused, rather than infectious forces arising ONLY through being predisposed to disturbance through the pressures.
6. These then are the conditions as we find them with this body, [1548] we are speaking of, present in this room; first:
7. IN THE BLOOD SUPPLY, here we find there are the indications of how a disturbed circulation became overloaded with the poisons that should be eliminated, through pressures in the deflection of impulses for the clarification in the lungs themselves.
8. Hence we find pressures or depressing feelings, as of an overamount of gas in the lung; not through the rest of the system except sympathetically.
9. This becomes as a pressure, and - to be sure - involves the tissue of the throat, the bronchi, the larynx; as well as having the effect upon the rest of the circulatory system in its relationships to the functioning organs.
10. IN THE NERVE SYSTEM, here, as indicated, we find the sources or the seat or the cause of the disturbance. These pressures are in the upper dorsal, and more specific in the lower cervical - but cervical AND dorsal; that cause a thickening of tissue which produces inflammation through the pressure produced upon the capsule or the pleura itself - to the activities through the vagus center, the vagus circulation, and to the secondary cardiac plexus more specific.
11. This was caused first by the inhalation of foreign substance, dust and the like. Then with the pressure produced by an injury in the area indicated, there was caused - or begun - the disturbance there.
12. Applications have more often been made for the EFFECTS than for the removal of the causes, or towards releasing the pressures as to cause a better impulse and flow of the blood supply.
13. But with the building up of the body, which has been done in some respects, we find that the applications for the moment aid; and then, with any overexercise, overtaxing, cold or too hot or the like, there is a recurrence of the weakness through the system and the vitality seems to have been taken from the whole system.
14. Under such stress the natural effect is for the hepatic circulation - the liver with the kidneys - to suffer through the excesses of the attempts of the body to eliminate those poisons that have become in the form of a gas pressure, as it were, upon the circulation - by this very effect of non-purification through the lung force, throughout the body.
15. Thus inertia is produced, and a FEELING as of being smothered in the whole of the system itself.
16. AS TO THE ACTIVITY UPON THE FUNCTIONING OF THE ORGANS THEMSELVES, the involvement, as we have indicated, comes to the soft tissue of throat, bronchi, larynx, lungs; as the effect of gas from toxic forces or poisons from the energies of the system itself in functioning.
17. And the effect upon the lungs is not so much save at times when there have been those activities of infectious forces; but these have been and are being kept capsuled off.
18. Then as we find, with the pressures removed in the cervical and upper dorsal area, and the combining of the coordination between the lumbar, the solar plexus, the brachial center and the vagus system - and then purifying the lung tissue itself, by the use of those properties which would act not only as a purifying but aid in ELIMINATING the causes; with the pressures removed - we should, within six to eight months, be entirely free of the disturbance for this body.
19. WE WOULD BEGIN, THEN, WITH THESE:
20. First, have prepared a cask or keg - gallon or gallon and a half - oak - charred inside. If it is a gallon keg, put in same half a gallon of Apple Brandy; not Apple Jack but Pure Apple Brandy. Keep this tightly corked but close to where it will produce evaporation. Prepare so that the gases may be inhaled; not the brandy but the gas FROM the brandy; inhaled through the mouth into the bronchi, larynx AND lungs. Do this at least two or three or four times a day.
21. Begin also immediately with the corrections, Osteopathically, of those subluxations in the dorsal and cervical area; occasionally coordinating the brachial, the lumbar AND the solar plexus centers WITH the corrections created in the dorsal and cervical areas.
22. In the taking of the manipulations and corrections: take about twice a week for three to four weeks, then rest from same two or three weeks; then begin again.
23. When these are taken (the manipulations), AFTER the adjustments be sure there is used the lymph pump upon the respiratory system.
24. In the diet - DO NOT take RAW MILK! Eggs and PREPARED milk, yes - these are well.
25. Beef juices, fowl, lamb, fish - all should be a part of the diet.
26. Rest sufficiently but keep in the open as much as possible, especially in the sunshine. Breathe DEEP! Take the exercises as of stretching, raising the body and the arms as far BACK as possible - high above the head and at the same time standing or rising on toes. Not so much bending forward as bending backward.
27. Doing these consistently, persistently, as we find we will produce NORMAL forces for this body.
28. Keeping the manipulations in the way and manner indicated, with the inhalations, the exercises and the diets, we will find relief.
29. Ready for questions.
30. (Q) What Doctor is suggested to give the osteopathic treatments?
    (A) One, or anyone who has the lymph pump, Crews. [Gena L. Crews, D.O.]
31. (Q) Is pneumo-thorax necessary for the healing of the right lung?
    (A) Not necessarily necessary, if those adhesions or lesions are broken up; and if the lymph pump activity AND the activity of the gases from the Brandy are used and inhaled so as to heal off or to PURIFY the conditions. [See 10/28/36 Par. B2, in re previous tr. of pleural adhesions.]
32. (Q) Are cigarettes harmful to the healing process?
    (A) To excess they are. In moderation, not harmful.
33. (Q) What would be considered moderation?
    (A) Five or six during a day.
34. (Q) Shall I continue the pneumo-thorax?
    (A) For the present it may be continued, but it will not be necessary if those things indicated are used.
    Do these and we will bring the near to normal conditions.
35. We are through for the present.

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BACKGROUND

1. Miss [1548] and her family were native Virginians, living in the Tidewater area. When her mother heard about Mr. Cayce, she was eager to have her daughter consent to a reading. At that time, the daughter was in a TB sanitarium [GD's note: We later learned through her sister, [1523]; she had been in the hospital for nearly four years, and had been told by the doctors that she would be a bed patient the rest of her life.] Although the daughter consented, she told the mother not to reveal the nature of her illness, or her present condition. Subsequently the mother arranged for an appointment. [See also Communications: 3/12/38 Questions orally submitted to GD:
   "(1) What causes pre-menstrual pain? (2) Why is this condition accompanied with 7 to 10 days pre-menstrual temperature? (3) I cough up phlegm and blow blood clots from my nose in the early morning; what can be done about this?" [The additional questions, submitted got asked in the body of the Rdg. 1548-1, Par. 30-A--34-A.]
2. 10/28/36 Dr. Pol. N. Coryllos' letter to [1601]: [GD's note: This was was given to me today, 4/12/78, relative to her condition eighteen months before she obtained her first Reading 1548-1. Her sister, Mrs. [1523] said that Miss [1548] found it in going through some old files and thought we should have it to further document her case.]
   Rhinelander 4933
   Pol N. Coryllos, M.D. Forty-eight East Seventy-fifth Street New York City
   Dear Mrs. [1601]:-
   In answer to your letter of October 21st. I am very happy to report that your niece, Miss [1548], has an excellent collapse of the lung from the Jacobaeus Operation [see 1548-1, Par. B3, below]. I will let her go home next Tuesday, November 3rd. I will give her all instructions as to what she has to do when I discharge her.
   Very truly yours, [signed] Pol. N. Coryllos, M.D.
   [GD's note: This is from Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary - 23rd Edition (c) 1957, By W. B. Saunders Company.]
   "Jacobaeus o., the treatment of pleural adhesions by thoracoscopy and cauterization.
   "Jacobaeus operation [Hans Christian Jacobaeus, Swedish surgeon, 1879-1937]. See under operation."

REPORTS

1. 8/12/38 Comment by GD: "After the reading today, Miss [1548] made the following remarks to me: 'Fifteen years ago I fell from a tree and injured my spine some place between both shoulders. For over a week I was in such pain that I had to stop teaching. I went to an osteopath and had 2 treatments that week. The pain left me, and I returned to school.'
   'Eleven years after that accident, I was in charge of a Settlement House in New York City, working outdoors in the Recreational Field a great deal of the time. Thus I was exposed to the dust of the playground, changing weather conditions and poorly ventilated classrooms.
   'That was probably when I breathed the 'foreign substance' referred to in the reading. I worked at that position for 2 years. I spent the following 6 months in Florida. Not feeling well, I visited a doctor and learned that I had tuberculosis.
   'All these years I have been treated for TB. I still have a big spot on my right lung. The Sanitarium has just sent me home to rest. I return there periodically for pneumothorax treatments. I was told to drink plenty of cow's milk, which I have been doing for the past 2 years.'
   "Miss [1548] was 'so thrilled' by her reading. She said that everything in the reading was 'so true'".
2. 3/28/38 She referred Mr. [1557] for a Physical Reading.
3. 3/30/38 She referred Mrs. [1560] for Physical Reading.
4. 5/30/38 She referred her aunt, Mrs. [1601], for Physical Reading.
5. 6/06/38 She obtained her second Physical Reading - See 1548-2.
6. GD's note: "When Miss [1548] was given her first Physical Reading, she was very much overweight. I noticed that her face was bloated and her breasts were abnormally large. When he returned for this Check Physical Reading, her appearance was greatly improved, having lost about 15 pounds during the 3 months. However, she was very much disturbed about this loss of weight and wanted to know if it was injurious to her health."
7. 10/02/40 She submitted detailed medical report preceding 1548-1 - see under 1548-5.

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