Edgar Cayce Readings, 2457-4

(Physical Suggestion)

TEXT

EC: Yes, we have the body here. This we have had before. Conditions are not so well with the body as when we last had same here. Those conditions as are prenatal in their effect, through the activity of forces made manifest in a physical body, are beginning to become in the manner of producing within the system an element as of its OWN resuscitation, living upon the life OF the body-physical. That's a very good description of cancer, isn't it? for it IS malignant in its nature, and has already attacked the mammary glands, and is going to be rather fast in its operation unless there are means taken as to check same.
We would give then, THESE, as we find, would be the better corrective measures for this body, were there a serum made from that as is called the "wolve" [wolf] in the beef or the hare, at this season, and injections made in that region where the blood supply to the system is most effective. For this region of system this would be materially aided, or checked - or NICCOLITE, as this becomes. [See 2514-4, Par. 15-A advising tendon or "wolve" in both left legs of rabbit be removed before preparing as a food, as it might cause a fever.]
In that as may be done at the present, until same may be made, we would use those of the medicated ash, with the fume bath, where those of the salts - Epsom Salts - are used. This to produce that condition where the capillary eliminations are increased. The dose of the medicated ash should be at least an eighth grain in at least a tablespoonful or quarter glass of water three times each day.
Keep the body quiet.
Feed ALL the food that is of a NOURISHING nature, but not from MEATS. Those of cereals, fruits, vegetables, AND such - or principally of the nature that are the foods of the hare, the foods of the beef - these are DESTRUCTIVE forces TO such as may be seen in the condition attacking system.
There be, as has been given, some nineteen characters of such conditions, and all AFFECT the body in SIMILAR but DIFFERENT manners, just as the different natures of human beings respond to the seven elements that may be so sub-divided as to make MYRIADS of the changed vibration in system. Oh, much might be said, but when the ash is given - then apply those of the ultra violet ray. This should not be supplied more than three to four minutes at a time, for it would then be other THAN superficial for the body, and should be at least thirty-eight inches from the body when applied, and BEST that it be applied to the solar plexus center upward.
In the application, also would be well that the X-RAY be applied as DEEP therapy for the body. This will MATERIALLY aid in LOOSENING oxygen for the bone structure. While the body may become stiff for a time, unless activities are given, these may be materially aided by the masseuse or the massage that will keep in action the muscular forces, the activities of the whole system. Do that. Ready for questions.
(Q) Through whom may this serum be obtained?
(A) Hasn't been made yet.
(Q) How can this be made?
(A) This should be drawn off - that is, the wolve [wolf], see? - PUNCTURED by an hypodermic, see? This drawn off and then a culture made into the flesh of the same animal from which it's drawn, whether beef or hare. Then the culture applied to the HUMAN body, see? or blood drawn and a culture made FOR the human body and then applied to the body. There must necessarily be experimentations, with the proper heat, the proper precautions taken as to the character of cell as is destroyed in the culture made, and in the activity of the animal as well as human when being used; but for this character of the condition this would be MOST effective in at least fifty percent of such ills.
We are through with this reading.
Copy to Friend, Mrs. [310]
Copy to Ass'n office
Copy to Cayce Hospital

BACKGROUND

2/18/25 She obtained Physical Reading 2457-1 for anemia, prolapsed womb and stomach.
9/10/28 She wrote: "Am going over to Dr. Elise L. Stone [N.D.] about my left side; it is giving me trouble again, but maybe it is worry, because when I am upset I notice the pain more."
3/10/29 She wrote: "If I can only get this tightness, lumps or whatever is causing this drawing feeling in my chest straight, I'll get better."
2/16/30 She wrote: "I would like a Check Reading soon to see me through the next 2-3 yrs. anyway. The doctors may be good but they are too anxious to cut and I don't want to be cut if there are other ways out."
3/12/30 She wrote: "Nona Grapes [N.D.] is working on my back and head and left side, but the relief is slow in coming."
3/22/30 [2457]'s letter: "Maybe I can sit up long enough to get you a few lines written... I spend most of my time in bed these days... Dr. Grapes was treating me. Well, after a week's treatment she went to Montgomery. Called by to see how I was getting on and found me laid out - hasn't been back.
"The lower half of my left breast was hard and had red streaks running through the upper half, so I sent for the doctor. Had to keep Epsom Salts water packs on it and ice cap on top. Well, I am up one day and down the next. Seem to be too young for what ails me ('ccording to symptoms)... Darn these weak spells. All I can do to hold this pen. The least exertion gets me. For one who has always been so active this condition floors me... Can't even drive... Now you know I'm in bad shape...two years of this and what will I be..."

REPORTS

4/06/29 She wrote thanking EC for the reading: "I was worried about myself for fear of cancer. You know my father and his side of the family were afflicted that way, and the other side with kidney disease. Mine may be meanness springing out in a different form. It had me floored for a time, whatever it was... Believe I will get well... Will see about the violet ray, and will find a druggist who can weigh out the eighth grain of Ash."
4/27/30 She wrote: "My nerves today are creepy, jumpy, if you know what I mean."
5/10/30 She wrote: "You'd be surprised if you knew the amount and variety of devils that loosed themselves in me last week - the kind that play havoc till you are ragged."
7/23/30 Daughter [259]'s letter: "Mother [2457] is in bed, as her blood pressure has gone down to eighty. She also complains of double vision (a tight head)."
7/29/30 Mrs. [2457] wrote: "Spending every two or three days in bed makes me weaker still... If it is true that I am going through the stage of life I am making a try at [menopause?], my feelings are in accord with some of those who have been: 'Being dead is the best thing that could happen to you' and then when everything is over such a 'grand and glorious feeling to be alive.' Even my eyes are going myopic."
8/06/30 EC's letter: "I don't know what you are doing for yourself, [2457], but you ought to be doing a whole lot. I think, suggesting just off-hand, one of the very best things you could possibly do, and that would not weaken you, but will assist you a whole lot - if you would, about every other day, at least, take a bath ALL OVER with about a pound of Epsom Salts in just enough of water for you to submerge in. Put it in the bath tub, have the water tepid. It'll do you a world of good. Remain in it for twenty-five or thirty minutes, unless it weakens you too much. In that case, of course you'll have to do something else."
8/16/30 She wrote: "Started taking the Salts baths the first part of the week. The first one caused a drawing feeling between my shoulders and my neck but now I am not bothered.
"Dr. C. D. Feulner [M.D.] is keeping up with the blood pressure and giving me some pills. The medicated Ash is just about out. You sent that with other directions when I had the first 'fit' in March. Is it necessary to take more?... If I had been at the Beach with the low blood pressure, the trip would have been blamed, for I never would have thought of me having low blood pressure or anything else that would lay me out as I have been."
8/20/30 EC's letter: "Yes, if you can take more of the medicated Ash it will be very helpful - if we can get hold of more of it for you, but you should be very cautious with it."
8/30/30 She wrote: "How is the medicated Ash supposed to act on my condition? Since taking the Epsom Salts baths I have felt very much better, but today for some reason I am so restless. Is it all right to take the Ash with the pressure pills? That is what I have been doing. Or should I leave off the pills and continue the Ash? My blood pressure is just a few points off now. The appetite has been splendid but is off today. Tired of my cooking, which I really have done lately. Mouth full of blisters, stomach evidently out of order, but tongue is clean, for once. Taking Milk of Magnesia for that. All right? Will keep on as I am doing until I hear from you. The doctor dismissed me last week."
9/09/30 EC's letter: "The medicated Ash is a property that has been developed through the readings, which is supposed to release oxygen within the system, segregating for eliminations tissue that otherwise tends to make for malignant nature. So it should not interfere with any property that was boosting the blood supply, but should conform with same. However, if you are able to get the name and quantity of the booster pills, we can ask the question and then know just how these conform with each other. I think that is the very best thing to do. It may be that's why these have aided just at this time. I imagine it must be either digital or strychnine, though it may not be either. Either of these, however, work wonderfully with the Ash. Your mouth being full of blisters would be another indication, however, that there is some other property that is not working with the Ash - for it is, of course, a cleanser, where eliminations from or through the alimentary canal are kept a little bit above normal. The Milk of Magnesia may be alright. I suspect - though I wouldn't like to say until I knew just what the booster pills were - that you would find if you alternated Milk of Bismuth with the Milk of Magnesia - that is, take one one day and the other the next - this would be very much better. But let's be sure about those pills. Let me know about this right away, so that we can find out about same."
9/12/30 She wrote: "Just phoned about the pills, and they are strychnine, 30's or 40's. Went to pay the doctor today and he tested me out and my pressure is just a very little off. He remarked about my improvement, so I am coming. Still have quite a few capsules of the medicated Ash. Take them regularly. My mouth is all right now but I take the Milk of Magnesia until my mouth tastes better. Take two tablespoons every other night."
11/04/30 Friend Mrs. [310]'s letter: "It has been granted me to try to be helpful to [2457] who is so sad over the death of her sister [...]...
"My heart breaks over her physically; she thinks she is really much better but I have talked so frankly to her and she has said many 'give way' things now, since you have let me know her real condition. She says she feels blank all inside but thinks it is only an extreme weakness sometimes. She has quite a lump on under side of left arm, soreness extending almost to waistline, and I think (beneath her rouge) that her color is most characteristic, but maybe this is only my way of seeing it. Still she does for me and others all the time. Has had dinner (noon) with me twice and enjoyed much the car that her sister [...] gave her. She seemed quite sorry when her medicine gave out but said she had written you [for the Ash?]... I am trying to seize just this time to insist that she make her will for sake of her girls [[259] & [711]], but as yet she has not."
1/19/31 EC's letter: "Well, I'm glad you are feeling somewhat better yourself. I hope you will be able to keep up the good work. You've got to get some more red blood. You know that will be more a matter of diet than anything else, unless you go so much that you break down all your strength and the ability of the system to build up that necessary."
3/18/31 She wrote: "I can't say enough for your work. Both of our children [[259] & [711]] are here, well and happy, and I have been greatly benefitted myself."
3/27/31 She wrote: "Feel let down. Maybe the time of month, or it may be me. Just naturally built crooked... Am dull and stupid - can't think today somehow. Just tired and hysterical. No way at all for me to be... I'd hate to see a diagnosis on me at present."
4/13/31 She wrote: "I am giving myself a good bit of trouble. Don't know what to do with or about myself. I am getting very anemic. I wonder if the Wyeth's Beef, Iron and Wine would pep me up. Remember, you advised it and I took two bottles 4-5 years ago. The medicated Ash did worlds of good, as did the Epsom Salts baths"
4/20/31 EC's letter: "You should keep up the medicated Ash, if you can - and as much of the rest of the treatment as possible. I'm sure it will be helpful to you. I hope that by the next report you are feeling a lot better."
4/30/31 EC wrote: "We have already mailed the Ash to you. Now if you can get the ultra-violet light with this - that is, after the dose is taken - you will see a great deal of difference in the results, I'm sure. Use the ultra-violet treatment thirty minutes to an hour after taking the Ash internally."
5/20/31 She wrote: "Am so shaky can hardly hold this pen. Anyone would think I was going in for a bottle, judging from the hold I have on it."
6/28/31 Friend Mrs. [310] wrote: "[2457] has been most precious to me...
"She looks better to me now than for months, and she certainly gives the credit to you folks for it all. She is most conscientious in her attempt to carry out your suggestions, and sometimes when she talks real facts to me, I do so truly appreciate you telling me the true state of affairs with her, and I can the better reply."
7/01/31 Mrs. [2457] wrote: "Have the water running for the Epsom Salts soak...my body doesn't work as it once did and oh, the muscles rebel, groan and make me groan. Stiffer and sorer the second day than the day after... Found out that my blood pressure is getting sluggish again. Off some 25-30 points... Gosh, if I let myself dwell on my condition, mentally, spiritually, morally, etc., I would need to be behind bars."
8/02/31 She wrote: "Dr. Elise L. Stone [N.D.] is 'stuffing' me daily... I may be over here just a few days longer, and maybe two weeks - depends upon the improvement I show. Having trouble with my vision again."
9/05/31 Friend Mrs. [310] wrote: "[2457] spent a little more than four weeks with Dr. Elise L. Stone [N.D.], returning about a week ago... I really do think it did her a lot of good, and she seems to feel very well; rides all about for miles in the car; still doing for others, and I suppose she will continue this."
9/14/31 Mrs. [2457] wrote: "Dr. Stone found no trace of parasites either time, but wants to keep in touch with me weekly. She evidently thinks I am in for more trouble. Heaven forbid."
9/17/31 She obtained Ck. Physical 259-6 for her daughter.
9/19/31 She wrote: "Guess I'm feeling the after effects of [259]'s illness... Did not get to Montgomery this week [to see Dr. Elise L. Stone, N.D.] but will have to go next. Dare not neglect myself. Think part of my 'innards' have turned to ammonia."
9/20/31 Mrs. [310]'s letter: "[2457] is most charmed with the results for [259], and she certainly gives you all credit at all times for the various benefits. She herself seems to feel real well, but does have so many upsetting all of the time."
10/01/31 She wrote: "Went to Montgomery yesterday. Am doing fine according to Dr. Elise L. Stone, N.D. She is a pretty good judge."
10/10/31 She wrote: "Dr. Stone has my ailment about corrected, but the soreness in the abdomen she says comes from elsewhere, and other causes. Trying to make me think I'm older than I am."
10/30/31 Friend Mrs. [310]'s letter: "[2457]'s mother becomes more and more of a trial for her, says such hard nonunderstandable things, and [2457] most beautifully tries to manage all, and lets the hurt go deeper, not showing from the surface.
"Then her husband is drinking harder than ever - this is most distressing as to business, humiliation and all for [2457]... Sometimes he is not himself at least once a week, but sometimes not so often...
"Besides all of the above, she has been feeling quite bad for about a month or more; has not menstruated for two months or longer and is quite swollen... She is quite uneasy about herself, although Dr. Stone assures her that it is 'change of life' and yet, I felt that the thing for me to do is to tell the real facts, so that if she writes, you will really know. I have done everything to get her to make her will [for the girls' sake [[259] & [711]]], and she has not yet done this, but does say that after all of her sister's affairs are settled that she hopes to do this."
12/09/31 Mrs. [2457] wrote: "Say, don't you laugh at me. Here I am forty years old (since last June 30th) and can't get a line as to what ails me. From certain conditions there are six months or so in front of me, or maybe it is amenorrhea (Say, I found that word helping with a crossword puzzle. I had the dictionary.). Describes my condition perfectly. Enough, enough, until I am certain (of anything)."
1/08/32 EC gave her a Ck. Physical Rdg., 2457-5, indicating she was pregnant.
6/24/32 A baby boy was born to Mrs. [2457], two years and two months after the above rdg. 2457-4 which indicated the malignancy.
See subsequent notations under her Ck. Physicals 2457-5 and 2457-6, also under her Life Rdg. 2457-2.
2/14/58 She wrote: "My husband [3657] was telling me about the real Ash and the synthetic Ash that I took. Seems the synthetic upset me dreadfully, while the real did the work!"
1/03/66 GD's note: "She is still active and in good health."
4/12/66 See clipping under 4615-1 of new rabbit serum discovered for cancer.
7/15/66 Daughter [259]'s letter: "Mother [2457] died in her sleep while visiting us here on March 6th."
3/31/81 National Enquirer article, pg. 55:
Amazing Cancer Treatment Quadruples Survival Rate
By PATRICIA TOWLE
A revolutionary cancer treatment has quadrupled the survival rate of victims of ovarian cancer, report researchers from Johns Hopkins University.
The amazing new treatment uses antibodies that are taken from rabbits combined with improved surgery, radiation and chemotherapy techniques.
"Using this type of therapy, our survival rate is four times as great as with conventional treatment," said Dr. Jose Pino y Torres, M.D., a radiation oncologist.
In the experimental treatment, the doctor surgically removes the ovary, takes cancerous cells from it, then injects them into a live rabbit.
"The animal makes antibodies in its own blood to fight the foreign tumor cells," the researcher explained.
"These antibodies are then taken from the rabbit and injected back into the patient where, it is assumed, they attack any remaining cancer."
The new treatment was used on 13 patients at Johns Hopkins.
The five-year survival rate for stage-three cancer - the stage at which victims are expected to die - has been only 11 percent with conventional treatment, said Dr. Pino y Torres.
"Yet using the combined treatment with the rabbit antibody, a total of 43 percent of our patients are surviving disease-free for 4 years, which was the follow-up period.
"We've changed the dismal outlook that has been painted for victims in the past.
"With this treatment, we are looking at percentages where the patient really has a chance. We are giving some of them a second start at life." The American Cancer Society says 18,000 new cases of ovarian cancer will be diagnosed this year - and estimates 11,400 deaths.
"Normally, the prognosis for stage-three cancer patients is grim," said Dr. David Ettinger, M.D., a medical oncologist at Johns Hopkins.
"But with this new technique, we have improved the survival rate - and hopefully the curability of the disease.
"We are using the best of all methods and we are highly optimistic about the treatment of advanced cases," said Dr. Ettinger.