This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at his office, 115 West 35th Street, Virginia Beach, Virginia, this 5th day of June, 1928, in accordance with request made by his mother, Mrs. [522].

Present: Edgar Cayce; Mrs. Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno.

TEXT

1. GC: You will go over this body carefully, examine it thoroughly, and tell me the conditions you find at the present time; giving the cause of the existing conditions, also the treatment for the cure and relief of this body - especially the condition in the arm that has been broken and the drawn hand or finger. You will answer any questions I may ask you regarding same.
2. EC: Yes, we have the body here - this we have had before, you see.
3. Now, we find the general physical conditions of the body are very good.
4. Those specific conditions that have to do with the injury as received in arm are not good.
5. While there may be too much done to rectify the improper handling or reducing of the condition that occurred; yet there may be given or added those conditions that would relieve much of this condition and rectify much that has been caused; yet the stiffness, or the tendon, will not be loosened, even by this manipulation, or by the handling of the condition, in its entirety.
6. The better applications will be to keep the general health good, see? and to massage into the arm (not hard; gentle - and after the second treatment so much of the soreness will be relieved), at least once each day, equal parts of olive oil, tincture of myrrh, and sassafras oil. Heat the olive oil, add the myrrh and the sassafras oil. Only prepare sufficient for one treatment, or for each treatment - which should be at least a tablespoonful of each.
7. Each third day apply the Violet Ray to the central plexus from which there is the radiation of nerve impulses for the arm. Occasionally - once a week or once in two weeks - this may be gone gently over the arm, but not at first.
8. Following these, as we find, would bring the better conditions for the body. Do that. Ready for questions.
9. (Q) Should the olive oil and myrrh and sassafras oil be massaged over the whole arm and hand?
   (A) From tip of finger to the brachial plexus.
10. (Q) Just where is the center where the Violet Ray should be applied?
    (A) Just below - just above - the brachial plexus.
11. (Q) Will the finger always be drawn?
    (A) Dependent upon the response, as has been given, to these conditions.
12. We are through for the present.

BACKGROUND

1. Boy's arm had been broken and had apparently not been set properly; it had healed improperly; the hand or finger was showing a stiffness and a drawing. Family very worried about him. Nerve in little finger was injured and finger is sensitive to touch.
2. 5/18/28 Mother's letter: "It seems to me that his left hand is smaller than his right."

REPORTS

1. GD's note: The condition cleared up with the following of the suggestions in the reading. Two years later when I saw [1715] for the first time, there was no noticeable difference in his right and left arms and hands. He was quite active in sports, etc.
2. 7/19/30 Young [1715] obtained a Life Reading. See 1715-3.
3. 4/73 NEW YORK TIMES article by JANE E. BRODY:
   Healing In Animals Speeded By Static Electricity:
   Scientists at Columbia University yesterday reported encouraging results in tests on animals of the use of static electricity to speed the healing of fractured bones.
   The method, if shown to be effective in man, could simplify the current experimental use of electrical bone healing, in which electrodes are implanted directly into the bone to set up electrical charges on either side of the fracture point.
   This method has been shown in patients to speed greatly the healing of stubborn fractures and to stimulate healing of breaks that do not heal on their own.
   The new approach would eliminate the need to implant electrodes, and instead would place the fractured limb in an electric force field maintained between two metal plates by a conventional dry-cell battery. The plates and battery would be attached externally, held in place by a cast.
   Electrical bone healing is based on the observation by a number of researchers that the formation of bone is enhanced by the application of a weak direct current. Deposition of collagen and apatite, the major constituents of new bone, occurs around a negatively charged area.
   The application of this principle to the treatment of patients with fractures that refuse to heal was reported last year by Dr. Leroy Lavine and colleagues at Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn. The method is now being studied at a number of medical centers.
   The work with static electricity was presented yesterday to a symposium at Clemson University in South Carolina by Dr. C. Andrew Bassett, director of the Orthopedic Research Laboratories at Columbia. Thus far, studies in rabbits, done in collaboration with Robert J. Pawluk, have shown that the method can reduce by half the time required for a fracture to heal, Dr. Bassett reported.
   He said he expected to apply electrical field casts to human arms and legs within a year. He estimated that if the method succeeded in man, it could save the nation nearly $5-billion year in expenses for the treatment of fractures.

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