6/20/40 [
2094]'s letter to EC:
"Your report was duly received, but just before coming up
here in the Poconos. I find it rather cool here, but down in
New York City, it was too hot. It seems difficult to find a
happy mean, for I am affected by both extremes.
"In regard to your report: I am glad you think I have no
nerve cell deterioration and that the electric gold treatment
will eventually restore the nerve vitality. I am looking for
no miracle and shall be thankful for a reduction of the very
disagreeable and distressing symptoms. I had already heard
about a case of yours, a case of multiple sclerosis, which
Dr. Dobbins reported had recovered. Whether my case is
anything like this patient, I do not know. He was much
younger, I believe around fifty. Also he had a wasted limb.
I am seventy and, so far, there is no sign of wasted limbs
or body. In fact, most doctors consider my physique very
excellent, even fresher and more solid than with many much
younger men. That has given me hope that my condition is
not irreparable.
"Your statement that my inability to take the Acigest comes
from my 'mental self' or one might say because of some
prejudice against it, is, I fear, not well founded. I
should say first of all that, although I did not notice any
reactions from the 'Acidulin' which I formerly took, I had
given it up long ago as ineffectual. I saw no results after
five months. I was very glad when I was directed by you to
try the Acigest and did so without the least prejudice or
antagonism, but on the contrary with the hope that it would
produce some result. After taking it a few days I felt the
irritation in the rectum and anus and wondered what could be
the cause. I did not think of the Acigest at first, until I
noticed that the irritation increased every day. I wrote you
and asked your advice and whether this was only a temporary
symptom or no, but never received an answer. After a week
or more, I think, your son wrote for me not to continue the
Acigest until I could start ALL the treatments together,
for then I had not yet received the electric apparatus.
So I waited another ten days or two weeks for the electric
apparatus to come and began again, with the same results,
although I began, as I wrote you, with only a few drops at
first.
"One would hardly say it is the 'mental self' if an
irritation of a very similar kind came after eating some
sour cherries. And I have had just that experience.
"There can be no doubt that my body is very acid; too acid as
is proved recently by tests. This acid condition undoubtedly
irritates the nerve centers. Some acids turn to alkalines
when digested and alkalize the body. Others do not,
especially mineral acids, but also some fruit acids. So
I hardly believe I am so narrow as to expect a bad result
and then experience it as a reality. I had only good
expectations or hope.
"The attempt to use the battery you recommend has had some
curious difficulties. First, I asked immediately before
I left Virginia Beach to have one ordered made. It took a
month before I got it. I used it for two weeks, then went
on a two day trip to find this place. On my return I was
astonished to see the floor underneath the box covered with
a green liquid. No one had entered the room in my absence.
I opened the lid of the box and attempted to lift the
crock (which was covered on one side with green crystals)
containing the battery fluid and all of one side fell away
in my hands. As I attempted to carry the broken pieces to
a safe place, it also fell into several pieces as though
rotten. It was a mess, I can assure you!
"It took me several days scouting about in New York City to
find another crock of the proper size. Then as I was about
to get ready to pack the crock, I noticed that there was
something loose with the inside wire running between the gold
solution and the negative electrode. I examined it and found
that the maker, in packing in the crock with thick paper,
which he pushed down in that corner, had bent over the little
thin connection soldered to the wire, and as a result the
wire had almost been broken off. It was attached to the
electrode wire by only a single little strand. I had noticed
this bent attachment and wondered why it was different from
the other electrode attachment, but unfortunately, did not
examine it carefully. So in all probability, I have been
getting no electric current during the two weeks I tried to
take this treatment. And it is now a month and three weeks
since I saw you.
"I was just packing and ready to leave New York when I
discovered this condition, so I had to come up here. After
I got settled I took the wire to the village electrician who
charged me three times what it was worth to repair.
"Just now, everything seems in order, at least I hope so.
There seems to be no way to test this machine to see whether
it is operating or not. At least, I have no instrument for
that purpose, although electrometers of all sorts exist.
There are probably some that would detect even as low a
current as this one.
"You may be interested to hear that not long ago I cut out an
article from a New York newspaper describing the introduction
of medicinal substances into the body by means of a low
galvanic current for nervous conditions. I have been unable
to find it again. But I have another one describing the
same thing by a Dr. Gustav Erlanger of the Manhattan General
Hospital of New York City, who treats eyes with remarkable
results. He calls it 'iontophoresis,' treatment of the
autonomic nervous system.
"I am not sure whether I owe you anything for the recent
reading, which was to find out why recommendations had not
been working well.
"My address will be the above for the present..."
6/25/40 EC's letter to [
2094]:
"Thanks for yours of the 20th. I'm sorry you have had such
a time with the Appliance. I wish we were able to have some
research work done on these Appliances, for when we find them
suggested, and they have given marvelous results in many,
many cases, it is necessary to have them made up by hand.
This company has attempted to do so. We have had several
times, such results as you had with the broken crock; why I
do not know. I suppose they should use some composition like
hard rubber or a composition, but it makes them cost so much.
It was just negligence that it was packed so as to break
connection. But I hope you have it right and the solutions
that charge the Appliance all correct. Yes, these will
show a current with a meter, but the amount of current is
according to amount of ingredients used, so I am told. I
do not know one thing about electricity.
"As to the Acigest: This is supposed not to make an acid
system, but to alkalize same. I can only give what the
information says; it may be all wrong.
"Yes, I am told there are many who give a form of electricity
to carry solutions into the system.
"I do hope you will soon see real results from the last
suggestions given.
"Thanking you and hoping to hear from you again soon..."
8/27/40 [
2094]'s letter to EC:
"It has been some time now since I began the treatment you
recommended and I have carried it out carefully with the
exception of the Asidose [Acigest?], which as I wrote you
caused violent irritation and caused strong contractions.
"I have taken the electric treatment with the Chloride
of Gold daily for a half hour. I have been treated
osteopathically by Dr. Dobbins with a brief change
when I was at ..., where I had another osteopath.
"These treatments, so far as I can see, have just irritated
me. I feel much worse today than I have at any time. In
fact, during the last week, I had more pain in the legs,
hips, back and abdomen than at any time before. I have great
difficulty in the morning when I awaken stretching out my
legs straight. The contraction in the under part of upper
legs is very strong. I feel burning and tingling in the
lower part of my body constantly. It never ceases. There is
also a slight feeling of the same in my arms and hands. With
this before you, what do you think I should do?
"Everyone says I look well, I have a good color; although
I walk with difficulty. There is still considerable gas
in both intestines and stomach, perhaps not quite as bad as
formerly, but it still causes distention and contraction.
I never have a natural movement. I am highly nervous and
irritable, more at times than others, especially after an
osteopathic treatment.
"I have considerable worry which I try to forget and hold in
check. But my finances are bad and seem likely to be getting
worse, and I can see no way to better them as long as the
present world condition continues. In fact, one can almost
expect to go bankrupt if the present trend continues.
"You spoke once of Dr. Guy B. Stearns and I told you I had
been his patient just before I consulted you. Do you think
he could help me? Of course, his treatments require a
long time. But his diagnosis seems sound. He has given
me gold in the past. Would his medicine conflict with the
gold-electric treatment?
"It may interest you to know what I have discovered in regard
to the 'porcelain pot' used with the electric battery and why
it breaks to pieces sometimes.
"First: I should say, the pot which came with the rest of
the apparatus from Norfolk was of a very inferior quality,
and the edges were extremely thin. The one I bought to
replace it was thicker and it was a very much better quality.
It only cost eighty cents. The other one therefore, could
not have cost more than fifty cents.
"Second: One day I tried to lift the wooden cover which is
made so this part fits down into the jar. Now recently the
one I have was so tight when I tried to take it off that
I was afraid I could not do it without damaging the jar.
Finally it came off. When I had put it on previously, it
was somewhat tight, but there was no difficulty in getting it
off. I noticed also that there was considerable moisture on
the wood, and that there were considerable green sulfate of
copper crystals on it; also on edges of jar and even down
the sides and on bottom. It suddenly dawned on me that the
moisture had caused the tight wooden lid to swell and thus
caused the thin sides of the jar to break, spilling all the
stuff on the carpet. When I left the apparatus in my room
at the time it broke, the weather was still cool and the heat
was often on in the hotel and the room was closed tight; so
during my absence, undoubtedly there was more evaporation
of the solution and swelling in the wood. Thus the cause
of the breakage seemed solved. Perhaps if you instruct the
manufacturer of this apparatus to look into this, he may
prevent future disaster.
"That the material of the jar that came with the apparatus
was poor, was shown by the fact that when I picked up a
broken section, it too fell to pieces as though it were
rotten. This showed me that the moment the glazed surface
was broken, the liquid seeped into the porous clay and
rendered it rotten.
"Excuse this long letter, please. With best wishes..."
9/05/40 EC's letter to [
2094]:
"I'm glad to hear from you, but sorry indeed to hear you are
not feeling so good. It is hard to say just what to suggest
to you. But I would say I think you should see Dr. Stearns
again [Guy Beckley Stearns, M.D.] and ask him regarding
Dr. Taylor, who I believe, presented a case very similar
to yours to the work, and who, I understand, has gotten lots
of help [[
1623]?]. Dr. Stearns will know which Dr. Taylor
[Charles Goodman Taylor, M.D.] to have reference to, as he
was the one that introduced Dr. Taylor to me.
"Now as regarding the Appliances: Yes, I realize the
material is not so good as the Appliance really deserves. I
think the containers should be of hard rubber or composition
that is not affected by acid. But the darn thing is so
expensive any way, people just won't pay for them. The top
and the container should be rubber or composition. I have
tried to get the company to have these made, but they would
have to have a dye made and the cost seems prohibitive to
them.
"I do hope things in every way clear for you soon. I
suppose, when you see Dr. Stearns that you suggest if he
would like to ask any questions through me. I will be
glad to try and cooperate any way I can; and Dr. Taylor
also. Each of these I believe use a different mode for
diagnosis, but usually arrive at the same conclusion.
"Know I am anxious to try and help. So far, it seems not to
have been of much good. Let's hope we may do better yet.
"I hope you will let me hear what Dr. Stearns has to say..."
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