This Psychic Reading given by Edgar Cayce at his office, 322 Grafton Avenue, Dayton, Ohio, this 8th day of August, 1925, in accordance with request made by Mr. [195].

Present: Edgar Cayce; Mrs. Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. Mr. [195] and Mr. [779].

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1. GC: You will have before you the battery appliance, present in this room, on a table, and you will answer the following questions concerning same, as I ask them.
2. EC: Yes, we have the appliance here. This, as we see, is a form of that as has been given for the vibrations of the body and as beneficial to the human organism in producing an equalization of the vibrations necessary to produce the equalization of the system. This, as made, we find would prove beneficial as a commercial form. To be used, this, in this form, would prove bunglesome to handle. The iron or the poles that produce the magnetic forces that bring about vibration had best, as given, be placed in a casing with gasket of charcoal, either of tin or of rubber, with an insulation tube in the upper portion of same, and connections with the poles made with finer wire or connection, that this would be more flexible, and the same vibration will be received in system by the smaller connection and the terminal or the connection with both may be made in form of plate of German Silver or of metal, to which cord or tape may be attached to adjust same to the body, without reducing the efficiency of same. Prepare in that manner. Ready for questions.
3. (Q) Will the battery as prepared at present, having the carbon steel completely surrounded with strips of carbon, give the same results as the two pieces of carbon steel insulated by a strip of carbon and placed in a rubber container and packed with charcoal?
   (A) Gives the same effect, as given, save in using as a commercial form or looks of same would be improved by placing same inside of container, see? for the charcoal acts as a restrainer and clarifies the vibration. The strip of carbon between steel is necessary, or glass may be used. Two strips of glass would act in same manner.
4. (Q) What size wire would give the best results?
   (A) The size, as to results, does not enter. Only that as would be used for the more easily being handled for the patient, see? Hence the suggestion as given. The very fine, with a covering, see? The connections as enter for the steel must be secure more than on this. The connections as enter on the terminals should be more secure, see? Also there needs be a rubber or an insulation where the wires, or connections, from steel come out, that these may not touch, see?
5. (Q) In the carbon steel and ice water battery, how may the positive and negative poles be ascertained?
   (A) That first connected with the body becomes the positive, the last connected negative. The action, then, of properties as may be transmitted by vibration to the body from medicinal forces would act from (in entering the body) the negative vibration, for as we find, the body, physical, is of a circuit, in the form of an eight, see? In its vibration entering the heart forces is the generating of energy, see? Liver, heart, and all trunk portion of body being the unit, see? Then, attachment to the outer portion, to the upper portion of body, neck or arm, and to the lower portion of body, completes a unit. Hence the first as is attached to body becomes the positive, the last the negative, see? Hence when vibrations are necessary for the body, for these above the trunk portion, attach positive lower, those below attach to upper, see?
6. (Q) In attaching a container to the negative pole wire, in which is placed tincture of iron, would the application of this cure anemia?
   (A) Cure anemia, even in a virulent or exaggerated state. This would of necessity be rather the preventive than curative forces, though with the application of this we gradually build that condition in the system to overcome, or add iron to the system, see? Then, in adding that property to the system, the application to body would be in this manner: First, attach to arm or leg, see? Then attach the negative to the central portion of body, in a wide plate, attaching the negative wire to a connection of silver in the solution, see?
7. (Q) Would tincture of iodine cure goitre?
   (A) Tincture of iodine cures and prevents goitre. This, as we find, would reduce any condition that affects the ductless glands. Would also prove preventives, in cases first beginning, of appendicitis, or of any condition relating to either thyroid or the appendix.
8. (Q) What would spirits of camphor, silver nitrate and gold chloride, each, cure?
   (A) Silver nitrate is a nerve stimulant, see? Any condition pertaining to the nerve system. Chloride of Gold - [See 1800-6 Reports.] any condition wherein there is any form of the condition bordering on rheumatics, or of the necessity of rejuvenating any organ of the system showing the delinquency in action, see? Nitrate as is added through the silver solution to central portions (which may be alternated with gold and silver) for those of a neurotic condition, even unto neuritis, or any form of condition pertaining to enlarged joints, muscles, tissue, any protuberance as comes to portions of body, see?
9. (Q) What would the spirits of camphor cure?
   (A) Nausea and summer complaints. Any intestinal disturbance.
10. (Q) Would the system absorb the tincture of iron, or merely the vibration as given off by the tincture of iron?
    (A) The vibration as given off, which creates that same vibration, giving the action with the elements in the system that create iron, those properties or those actions of same in system. Same as is acquired from that of the other forms that may be applied through same to system. As given, this, we find, would act as a Universal Forces, as would be changed according to the conditions of the system. These should be applied through cold, best if the ice is as created with that of manufacture, see? for this carries more of that vibration to act with iron. All vibration carrying, then, some form of this nature that adds vibration to the organisms in system, for all are of the units of a vibratory force. These, as given, may be prepared in commercial quantities and applied to everyone, for it would be beneficial to all human force of life, under present conditions. These, as we see, are of the nature that will prove so beneficial to many as suffer from the various ails of the body. Many of the conditions as are existent in alcoholic stimulants, as have been applied to system, that has destroyed the tissue in central portion of the body, destroyed tissue in the re-creative forces in generatory system, destroyed tissue in other portions of the system, even into brain itself, give these, and gold [See 1800-6, Reports.] or silver, or both, would add and rebuild, rejuvenate, as it were, in the system. Give these, for they are good.
11. We are through.

REPORTS

1. 8/28/25 See 1800-7, another reading on the Radio-Active Appliance.
2. 9/05/65 Washington Post Article:
   QUICK HELP FOR BURNS
   Gold Leaf Bandages Work Miracles
   Doctors here are fashioning the fanciest bandages ever - out of gold leaf.
   "Nobody knows why," one said, "but damn it, it works."
   It seems to relieve pain and stop the oozing from severe burns and skin ulcers and sores. Best of all, it apparently speeds the wounds' healing.
   Deep wounds as big around as a hand seem to start healing in a couple of days, in some cases, the doctors say.
   Patients who might ordinarily be expected to heal only after weeks or months in a hospital are sometimes able to continue work while letting the gold do its work.
   COST IS NOT HIGH
   The pounded sheets of gold being used are thin and wispy. They come in packets like sheets of eyeglass cleaning papers.
   They ordinarily are used for gilding gold mirrors and picture frames. Gilders use a brush to pick up the sheets by static electricity - just as you can pick up a bit of paper with a static-charged comb.
   The price is not prohibitive. A packet of gold sheets - plenty for one treatment of a big skin ulcer - costs less than $4.
   Placed on the surface to be gilded, it adheres and clings.
   Dr. John P. Gallagher noted this and wondered if the gold could seal oozing tissues that sutures won't hold.
   With Dr. Charles F. Geschickter, professor of pathology at Georgetown University, Gallagher worked out a surgical technique for gold in experimental animals.
   Then, as reported a year ago, a Washington boy, 9, was rushed to Georgetown University Hospital with head injures after his bicycle collided with a wall. His frontal bone had been caved in, exposing the dura mater, or outer membrane, of the brain. From cuts in this membrane, fluid was welling up in the wound. To save the boy's life, Gallagher used gold leaf where sutures wouldn't hold.
   Since his report of that and other cases in the Journal of the American Medical Association, Gallagher has seen the surgical method spread as other physicians tried the same technique or modified it.
   Two of the most dramatic innovations, however, are being accomplished here.
   At the Hebrew Home for the Aged here, the thin sheets of gold have given spectacular results when applied to big open wounds and sores, a doctor said.
   Dr. Naomi M. Kanof, a dermatologist, applied the gold to long-standing, deep and open skin ulcers resulting from injuries, diabetic and varicose conditions and from the deterioration known by the mild name of "bedsores."
   These open invitations to infection may require months of hospital care before they heal - if they heal at all.
   The gold leaf was applied at the home on a Thursday. A photographer was scheduled to take "before" photographs on Saturday but by then it was to late. The healing already was beginning and visible, Dr. Kanof said.
   ALSO USED FOR BURNS
   Since then, gold leaf has been used at the same home as soon as signs are seen that a bedsore or skin ulcer may be developing. And it has worked consistently well, a physician said, with no adverse effects.
   In private practice here, the gold leaf has been used even on gangrenous ulcers and, in at least one case, on an open wound from X rays used in treating another condition.
   Dr. Linwood L. Rayford, Jr. here has transferred the gold leaf technique into the treatment of large, painful second degree burns. In the severest case, the burns covered 25 percent of the patient's body.
   The gold, Rayford said, cuts the severe pain and dries the wound - from which burn patients ordinarily may lose important body fluids.
   TO TRY ON 'DEADLY' BURNS
   "I have the impression," he said, "that it also quickens the healing." Thus far he has used gold leaf on a dozen cases at Providence Hospital, Freedmen's Hospital and in his own office. He wants to do a dozen more before publishing his findings in a medical journal.
   And he would like to tackle the "deadly" burns. These extensive burns often kill, in part, because of the loss of bodily fluids through the burned areas. Gold leaf's sealing quality might help.
   In applying the leaf, doctors wet the area, if it is dry, and bring the leaf up to it. It seems to "jump" to the skin and adhere, usually for a couple of days, before it must be reapplied.
3. 10/65 A.R.E. Bulletin note, after quoting from 1800-6 and above article:
   File cards on prescriptions of gold chloride show that it was suggested for a large number of diseases and faulty conditions. The cards list alcoholism, arthritis, assimilations, asthenia, blindness, bursitis, cancer, circulation, diverticulitis, eliminations, glands, insanity, menopause, etc. Apparently gold possesses a rejuvenating power.
4. 11/66 Family Circle article:
   Gold-leaf Treatment For Skin Ulcer
   Dramatic healing of bedsores and other skin ulcers that had proved severe and long-resistant to the other treatment has promoted with ordinary GOLD LEAF. Dr. Paul Wheeler and Dr. Lester Wolcott of the University of Missouri Medical Center, Columbia, report applying GOLD LEAF (similar to that used in lettering) as a dressing to 22 ulcers in 13 patients. After having resisted other treatment for as long as a year, 16 of 20 bedsores responded; 100% healing took place, within two weeks in some cases. After having failed to respond to other measures for seven months, a toe ulcer - the result of diabetic complications - began to heal within four days. An ulcer of the lower leg - about two inches by 1 1/4 inches in size, and present for five years - began to respond within four days, and the patient could be discharged after 11 days, with healing proceeding and the ulcer already reduced in size by 44%. There were no adverse reactions.
   A.M.A. Journal: Vol. 196, page 693
5. See 988-9 Reports in re gold leaf & low intensity electric current for bedsores.
6. 10/12/68 Science News article: Medical Sciences
   Gathered from the 69th annual meeting of the American Roentgen Ray Society in New Orleans
   RADIOACTIVE GOLD
   Children Survive Tumor Treatment
   Injections of radioactive gold, which is readily available and inexpensive, offer promise in the treatment of children with tumors, at the base of the brain, that tend to seed and spread through the spinal and brain fluid.
   A study of 10 patients, treated since 1964 at University of Minnesota hospitals in Minneapolis, shows that four are presently alive without signs of tumor, and a fifth is alive and improved, although the tumor persists. Dr. G. J. D'Angio, now of New York City, says there have been few undesirable side effects from the treatment, although two patients with leukemia apparently got no benefit.
   Following external radiation, injections of radio-gold are given at six-week intervals. The two-step treatment permits high irradiation doses to many seeded tumors without exceeding brain or spinal cord tolerance.
   Cells from tumors of the central nervous system tend to break off and spread to distant sites through the circulating fluid of the brain and cord. The radio-gold is injected within the sheath of the spinal column into the fluids.

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