This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at his office, 115 West 35th Street, Virginia Beach, Va., this 9th day of March, 1927, in accordance with request made by self - Mr. [2675].

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

TEXT

1. GC: You will give the physical condition of this body at the present time, giving advice concerning operation for appendicitis.
2. EC: Yes, we have the body here. This we have had before.
3. Now, we find conditions are somewhat exaggerated from those as we have had here before, and that the inflammation and uneasy condition as has been experienced by the body is sufficient to warrant the action as may be taken through the performing of operation to relieve condition existent in the region of appendix. While this might be overcome, yet were the operation performed in the manner that will hinder any adverse condition arising from the inflammation, or from adhesions (and these would form unless special care in drainage is taken - then this would not be well), with the care properly taken, this we see would prove beneficial to the body, as will the rest and the diet that will follow such. Well, however, that there is due preparation of the body, in cleansing same from all stimuli, and that the circulation is well in hand and the eliminations good, before such is performed. When this would come about - in three to four days under special care - then it might be well. We would do that then - have the operation to relieve conditions existent there.
4. (Q) Could this condition be relieved without the operation?
   (A) Be relieved, yet the condition would re-occur unless different care was taken of the body from that as has been seen, see?
5. We are through with this reading.
   EC's wire: "Reading advises operation when proper preparation is made. See complete information before acting."

BACKGROUND

1. See five previous readings, one Life and four Physicals.
2. 3/05/27 Wire: "Wire me your advice concerning operation for appendicitis. Be at ..."

REPORTS

1. 3/15/27 [1675]'s letter to EC:
   Birmingham, Alabama.
   Mr. Edgar Cayce, 115 W. 35th St., Virginia Beach, Va.
   Dear friend Cayce:
   I received the Reading a few days ago and your letter yesterday. No, I have not been at all well recently. I have been exceptionally well until this appendicitis complication came back.
   During the Summer of 1917 I had my first serious illness. The leading doctors here in Birmingham said that I had "chronic appendicitis" and urged an immediate operation. Soon after this I began to improve, and a few months later you gave me the first of these Readings. Nothing was said in it about that trouble. I followed the suggestions in it as closely as I could, and felt as well for a year or more as one could want to feel. It is the same story with the ones since given, as you know. These suggestions have been so successful in getting me by that I had dismissed all thought of appendicitis; indeed, I have doubted several times since that I ever had appendicitis. I do not doubt it now however; and as soon as my strength will permit I am going to have that removed for good. It is my belief that this complication has kept the relief resulting from the other applications from being as permanent as it would otherwise have been.
   I am glad that I received the Reading when I did, and glad that I deferred the operation instead of acting then as I was urged to do, because developments of the few following days proved that I was in no shape for it at that time. If this operation is not a complete success, or if I do not feel well afterwards, it might be well to have another Reading later to supplement this. There are some terms hinted at there which are not quiet clear and about which I would like to ask some questions. In case developments indicate this necessary I will let you know in the meantime.
   I want to thank you again for your patient personal attention. I hope you are feeling well yourself. With best wishes, I am
   Your friend, [2675]
2. 3/30/27 EC's letter to Mr. [2675]:
   Mr. [2675] Birmingham, Ala. Dear [2675]:-
   Yours of March 15th came just about the time I was called away again.
   I was sorry to know this complication had arisen again, but I'm in hopes that you will have no trouble with the operation, and I shall appreciate it if you will have your mother - or some of your folks - to let me know as regarding your condition from time to time, and I want you to be sure and let me hear form you as soon as you are in shape to - and, to be sure, we will want to go over the condition and see how is the best way for you to build up from the operation, and know that everything is alright. Of course, we don't contemplate any trouble from such operations these days, but trouble does often arise - and you know we are only too glad to try to be of help whenever its possible.
   With kindest personal regards and best wishes, I am
   Sincerely, Edgar Cayce EC:GD
3. 5/11/27 [2675]'s letter to EC:
   Birmingham, Alabama.
   Mr. Edgar Cayce, 115 W. 35th St., Virginia Beach, Va.
   Dear Cayce:
   I am just back from St. Vincent hospital where I have been laid up for three weeks following the operation which I had performed during the latter part of last month. I want to take this, my first opportunity to give you a report on what was found because you will be anxious to know how I am getting along and you will also want to make some comparison of these findings with the reading which was given.
   Dr. Cunningham Wilson who did my work thought that whereas I had been having so much intestinal trouble with symptoms so complex and confusing that it would be better to make a general survey of conditions there by way of a large incision instead of performing an operation for appendix only. This decision proved fortunate. Contrary to my expection the appendix was not seriously affected, though of course he removed it as a precaution against future trouble. The major cause was higher up, at the right curve of the colon, where ascending joins the transverse. At this point the colon was dislocated, having draped and doubled back on itself forming several adhesions which made almost a total obstruction. What could cause such a condition as this and how long it has existed no one can say. I am told of at least one similar case for which there apparently is no explanation, the condition evidently having existed from birth. Mine may be such a case. If this theory is not correct, it is thought that the malformation may possibly have started with a case of "colitis" (I don't think that is spelled correctly, but I haven't a dictionary at hand) from which I almost died when a child only a year old. I have always had serious trouble there, so it is probable that the condition had always existed - not in such an aggravated form perhaps as recently shown, but there, nevertheless. But of course this is all more or less guess work about a question the answer to which is not important except insofar as it would help to avoid any future trouble. What IS important is whether the condition has been relieved. I think that it has. A sudden and complete relief is felt from the mental depression from which I have suffered at times for a good many years and from which I was suffering constantly at the time the operation was performed. Most of the physical discomfort is gone. Appetite, digestion and assimilation have greatly improved, and strength is being gained as rapidly as could be expected. I think I will be ready for work in a few more days.
   The reading proved correct in at least one thing, the necessity for the operation. It is clear enough that I could never have had much physical health working against such an impediment. It is equally clear that there is no remedy for condition of this kind except an operation - whatever temporary relief and very great benefits one may receive from this treatment or that. And, in this connection, whether this condition primarily caused or only aggravated the physical shortcomings repeatedly outlined in the readings - troubles which no doubt existed, else complete relief would not have been experienced when the various remedies suggested where applied - still, it is easy to see why these could not be made permanent.
   There are many angles to our experience with this which I should like very much to talk over with you. I am still entertaining hope that I may have a chance to visit you sometime in the near future. If you ever have occasion to come to Birmingham, make sure to look me up. I would enjoy a visit from you very much. If the correction which has been made remains permanent with reasonable care I ought to have no future trouble. I hope that it does, and I am told that it usually does. In the meantime I will let you know how things are coming on, and I will write to you anyway because I want to keep in touch with you and the work you are doing. With best personal regards, I am
   Sincerely yours, [2675]
4. 5/18/27 EC's letter to Mr. [2675]:
   Mr. [2675], Birmingham, Alabama
   Dear [2675]:-
   Certainly very glad to have yours of the 11th, to know you are back from the hospital and feeling pretty good.
   I'm certainly interested very much in what you say regarding the conditions the doctor found, which, with the combinations of the three readings you had, coincide very materially with the condition the doctor found upon exploration. I certainly am in hopes that you get along nicely and have no further trouble. I'm sure I don't have to tell you of how careful you have to be, so that you won't have other adhesions from such an intestinal operation. I know I had an appendicitis operation some years ago, and am having trouble with intestinal adhesions from same at the present time. It will be very interesting after a time to have this again and see what the reading then will say as regarding your present condition. We'll be glad to do it. And as soon as you are able to travel around, I'm hoping that you will arrange to come down to the Beach and spend a while here, while you are recuperating. I'm sure this climate and atmosphere would be good for you. Hope you can arrange to do this.
   Well, we have been making a few strides towards perfecting some of the ideas and ideals that I've had for a number of years. Association of National Investigators, Incorporated, have received a charter from the State which will enable us to go about the organizing the first unit of the hospital, or institution. We hope to have this organization meeting by the 4th of June, and very soon thereafter have the temporary quarters of the Association Institution in operation. I just hope that we'll be better able to serve humanity through this means, for I believe, where suggestions made can be carried out, some very stubborn and severe cases can be brought back to normalcy.
   Certainly appreciate your letting me hear from you, and I'm in hopes you will do this from time to time, and with kindest personal regards, I am
   Sincerely, Edgar Cayce EC:GD
5. 5/30/27 [2675]'s letter to EC:
   Dear Cayce:
   Let us see what we can locate with a few questions like these as soon as you have time. [2675] 1. Are there any adhesions, any obstructions, or any dislocation of INTESTINES OR ANY OTHER ORGANS throughout the body at present that would impede the normal functions, and if so, how may they be overcome or their effects minimized?
   2. Do we find any centers of inflammation or infection ANYWHERE sufficient to overload the system with poisons and impair the efficiency of the body?
   3. Now, to gain a better control of the body, and overcome that disturbance described heretofore as "a lack of coordination in nerve vibration", what would you do AT PRESENT?
   4. What precautions, as to diet, exercise, habits, and general ways of living, should be taken in order to make permanent the corrections established through the operation just performed?
6. 6/02/27 See 2675-8.
7. 3/02/48 Report see under 2675-8

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