This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at his home on Arctic Crescent, Virginia Beach, Va., this 4th day of December, 1939, in accordance with request made by the wife, through Miss [2395], on Associate Membership in the Ass'n for Research & Enlightenment, Inc.

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

TEXT

1. GC: You will give the physical condition of this body at the present time, with suggestions for further corrective measures; answering the questions which may be submitted, as I ask them:
2. EC: Yes, we have the body here; this we have had before.
3. As we find, while there have been periods since last we had same when some ease and bettered conditions were indicated, in the PRESENT there has been such an aggravation of those incoordinations between the upper and the lower hepatic circulation that a great deal of inflammation exists - in this coordinating or connection.
4. And the engorgements, the enlargements of the area about the kidneys indicate already a disintegration; and it will soon produce sepsis poisoning.
5. The ease in the present, as we find, may be best had from such applications as we have given heretofore through these channels, or from sedatives - which are only temporary reliefs.
6. (Q) Which specific applications heretofore given, or should all be applied?
   (A) All those suggested would be those to bring the greater ease; the warm and cold, and the first applications given to relieve pain.
7. (Q) Is there any malignant or tubercular condition in the body now?
   (A) Malignancy is more the form of the condition; but IT NEED NOT HAVE BEEN! if there had been the following of those things indicated! It is the IRRITATION of these areas that has PRODUCED this disintegration of the connection between liver and kidneys, and the misplacement or engorgement of the area obtaining or holding the organ, or through which the functioning of same is being distorted.
8. We are through with this reading.

   Copy to [2395], Air Mail, Special
   Copy to Ass'n file

BACKGROUND

1. 11/39 Mr. [1005]'s oral report: "They took [2018] to a sanitarium in Chicago, after he began to get so much better from following the reading. There is a rumor going around town that his condition was caused by a pistol shot through the kidneys."
2. 12/02/39 Miss [2395]'s letter: "Please, if possible, give an immediate reading for [2018] at ... [his home]. The case is urgent! If you gather from the reading that certain measures would be beneficial, do not hesitate to wire me in regard to treatment. Please let me know if you see any malignant or tubercular condition in the body at the time of the reading...
   "[2018] had improved at the time of your previous readings but at present the case is considered critical."

REPORTS

1. 12/09/39 Miss [2395]'s letter: "Both your letter and the reading reached me early Wednesday morning. My heart is very sad indeed, for [2018] is just as ill as he can be. He improved steadily while he was taking the treatments according to the last reading and we were so hopeful until they decided to discontinue the treatments. Frankly, I haven't had any hope since."
2. 10/13/55 Miss [2395] gave this oral report: "While [2018] was in a sanitarium in Chicago they gave him radium pellets which he took by mouth. I feel that this was purely an experimental thing and I further think it is what is referred to in 2018-3 Par. 7-A as 'irritation.'" (When asked about the rumor mentioned in Mr. [1005]'s 11/39 letter, Miss [2395] said if [2018] was shot she did not know anything about it.)

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