12/14/43 [
3280]'s letter to EC:
Mr. Edgar Cayce
Association for Research and Enlightenment
VIRGINIA BEACH, VA
Dear Mr. Cayce:
Miss [
3358] [See
3358-1] and I have commenced the prescribed
treatments with a local osteopath who seems to be well
equipped for this work and to be very desirous of
co-operating with you. This is Dr. John P. Kilb, 1151 Canal
Building, New Orleans. This gentleman was greatly impressed
by your diagnosis for Miss [
3358], especially with regard to
the desired osteopathic corrections, and he has asked me to
give you his name and address and to assure you that he will
be very glad to co-operate with the Association in the
handling of any cases which may come his way. I have given
him the book "There is a River" to read, and he seems
entirely unprejudiced, indeed I should say favourable, to the
idea of clairvoyant and psychic diagnosis.
We assume therefore that his equipment is the right kind.
For Miss [
3358] he is giving a cabinet sweat which seems to
comply with the instructions, but if there is any danger of
our being wrong on this we would be grateful for directions
as to the proper kind of apparatus. In my case he is giving
an "ultra-short wave," deep heat machine, which produces a
powerful perspiratory effect.
The main thing however is that Dr. Kilb seems ready to follow
the directions carefully, without wanting to insist on his
own interpretations, as so often happens.
With regard to your reading of myself, there are three
questions which I would still like to ask. Firstly, is the
cleansing with Eno Salt, Bismuth and Lactated Pepsin to END
COMPLETELY when the hydrotherapy begins, and secondly, as the
prolapsus of lower colon seems an important item, is there
any other treatment which should be given to correct this, or
will your indications as given in the Reading fully suffice?
The reason for my asking this is that I gained immense
benefit from the week of cleansing, and now that I have
ceased, on commencement of the hydrotherapy, it still seems
too soon for the colon to begin to work normally and I feel
some signs of getting sluggish again.
Thirdly, are there any specially indicated "brands" or makes
of vitamins, or are they all more or less equal quality for
the purpose?
12/18/43 EC's letter:
Mr. [
3280]
..., La.
Dear Mr. [
3280]
Thanks very much for yours of the 14th, in which you gave me
the address of the Doctor who is taking care of you and Miss
[
3358]. I feel very sure that if he has read the book, and
is acquainted with the work, and with any of those in his
profession who have studied the work here for a great number
of years, you will have no trouble with his following
directions as the suggestions indicated. It sounds very much
as if Miss [
3358] is being given the proper treatments. Of
course the Doctor can judge this better than I. Very soon we
will have a checkup, and of course this will be a check on
the Doctor also, as the information is no respecter of
persons.
Yes, Mr. [
3280], I understand from your reading the first
application is to cleanse the system. Then the hydrotherapy
is to correct and finish the cleansing of the system. You
see the hydrotherapy cleans the colon entirely, that is high
colonics, at least, and with the treatments the Doctor gives
you along the spine this will gradually correct the
prolapsus. This may require, of course, two or three series;
the osteopathic treatments made from the ninth dorsal down
during that period. Very recently, Mr. [
3280], the
information suggests that there is a combination of
ingredients called Kal-Dak. Now it doesn't give this in
every case, for we have had it indicated for different
individuals many of the others that are on the market, such
as Vitamin plus, B1, Stems, A & D., but as the information
suggested, Kal-Dak will be a more universal combination of
the Vitamins. You can get this from the Lanworth Co.,
Lansing Michigan.
Thanks for your referral to our little plea for help. I am
sure you will do just as you feel that you are able. Wishing
you the merriest Christmas possible, and with every other
good wish, I am
Sincerely, Edgar Cayce
12/27/43 [
3280]'s letter to EC:
I have to acknowledge with many thanks your two letters in
reply to my enquiries regarding (1) treatment, and (2)
publications of the Society.
I know you must be terribly busy, and I hate to trouble you
again in this way, but the fact is that your reply about my
treatment has NOT cleared up my uncertainty, but in fact made
it a little worse.
You see, in the original Reading, you prescribed for my
"hydrotherapy treatments, including dry heat cabinet sweats
followed by sitzbad [sitz bath]". There was no mention of
colonic irrigation.
In your letter of the 18th. you now say "the hydrotherapy
cleans the colon entirely, that is, high colonics at
least..." from which I take it that my treatments are to
include colonic irrigation after all!
But so far, I have had none, as the first Reading did not
appear to indicate it (unless the word "hydrotherapy"
INCLUDES colonic irrigation??). I took this to mean that
probably the condition of prolapsed colon was the reason why
you had not advised colonics for me.
The other question is, what exactly does the phrase "dry heat
cabinet sweat" mean? What Dr. Kilb is giving me is
ultra-short wave DIATHERMY - not inside a cabinet, but on a
couch, under a diathermy machine. Does this answer the
requirement, or are we on the wrong track?
All this must be a terrible nuisance for you, but you will
appreciate the fact that we and the doctor are most anxious
to follow your advice to the letter, and we want to be sure
that we are doing right.
[
3280]
12/31/43 EC's letter:
Dear Mr. [
3280]:
I have yours of December 27. I am sorry that my letter
confused you, rather than clarified the suggestions.
The hydrotherapy practically in everyone includes, unless it
is made specific that it is not to be used, colonic
irrigation. This I think, under the hands of a good
hydrotherapist, is one of the best ways of preventing a
prolapsus, but I am sure your doctor should be able to advise
you respecting this.
The cabinet sweat and the dry heat is not the diathermy or
short wave at all, but in the cabinet in which the heat from
the lights in cabinet works directly with the perspiratory
system, or produces a sweat and, from your reading, I would
think that this would be possibly better for you than the
diathermy, though here, too, of course, your physician might
know of course, better than we. I believe you will find this
most beneficial.
Know we appreciate your writing us. I just hope we don't get
things mixed up for you so you don't get as good results from
the suggestions as you should have had.
Thanking you again, and hoping you will write us and ask any
questions that would have to do with your getting better
results from the suggestions made, I am
Sincerely, Edgar Cayce [EC/vw]
1/10/44 [
3280]'s letter:
Dear Mr. Cayce,
Very many thanks indeed for your recent letter giving
clarification as to my reading. I note that colonic
irrigation IS indicated and am acting accordingly with the
doctor. (Actually, I do find that my colon is in such a
spastic and nervous condition that too much attention of this
kind definitely upsets me, but anyhow, I think that if I had
the colonic treatment at every other visit it should be
adequate.)
However, point of this letter was not to discuss my own
troubles, which are anyhow very minor, and clearing up fast
through your kind help. I have already sent one or two other
people to you, and as your aim is to HELP I know that I am
doing the right thing.
Now I have another case, also known to me personally. This
is a young lady named Miss [...] living at ... She has read
your story in the book "There is a River" and believes that
surely you can and will help her. The physical condition is
said to be MOST SERIOUS - in fact I believe she has had as
grave a medical report as anyone could have.
As time presses, and you are heavily booked ahead, I promised
to write to you on her behalf. She will write to you also,
and I am suggesting that she ask you whether a Physical
Reading can be arranged.
This person, although brought up in rather materialistic
background and much associated with doctors (she is herself a
nurse to a local doctor) has some understanding of the higher
values and is herself clairvoyant of late, (although the
latter factor is most disturbing as it appears related to her
very serious physical trouble). In brief, I think she would
understand and would be ready to act on any advice given her
from psychic sources.
With all best wishes,
Yours very truly, [
3280]
Mr. Edgar Cayce
Association for Research and Enlightenment,
Virginia Beach, Va.
1/31/44 [
3280]'s letter to EC:
Dear Mr. Cayce,
This letter is on behalf of Miss [
3358] as well as myself.
We are particularly anxious to know what exactly are the
regulations and conditions governing "check readings",
concerning which neither of us is very clear.
The matter is important only because of the very heavy cost
of the treatment which we are both receiving. Naturally we
are both going to take same for the periods indicated in the
Readings, despite cost, but in the meantime we were thinking
that we would like to have some clearer idea about the
circumstances under which "checks" are available.
Do appointments for such check-readings have to be made far
in advance, just as is done with ordinary FIRST readings, or
are the "checks" made very briefly and separately by you
without being included in the waiting list.
It is important for us to know this for, as you will
appreciate, one is always a little worried about the
effectiveness of treatment when the latter is so very
expensive, for it might happen that a person could devote a
terrible amount of time and money and then still find that
there is something wrong. For, as you say, the check is the
sure proof, and is no respecter of persons, and will
therefore tell the patient whether he has found the right
practitioner or not.
If "checks" are included in the usual waiting-list, I suppose
both of us had better have our names put down. In the case
of Miss [
3358] it is of course clear that a long period of
treatment is needed, but I think she is quite worried over
the question whether it is being done properly. In my own
case I must confess that I am a little anxious because there
does not yet seem to be any evidence of improvement.
Please forgive me for troubling you. I know how busy you
are, and feel ashamed to disturb you again.
Sincerely yours, [
3280]
Mr. Edgar Cayce
Virginia Beach, Virginia
4/13/44 Questions:
SUBJECT: [
3280]
TIME: 3.30--4.30 EWT, Sunday, April 23rd, 1944
QUESTIONS:
1. Is improvement in condition of colon and elimination
satisfactory? Much improvement seems to have taken place.
Is condition in lower rectum and prolapse responding to
treatment and Kal-Dak?
2. What else can be done to calm down NERVOUS TENSION, which
is at present really the only trouble, as otherwise I am
feeling a lot better?
3. Is present dosage of Kal-Dak adequate, or should any
further vitamins be added?
4. Is this nervous tension of PSYCHIC ORIGIN and is any kind
of mental healing required?
5. Is condition of circulation and lymph system responding to
sweat-bath treatments now being taken?
6. Is present sweat-bath treatment in accordance with what
was prescribed in First Reading, or is some other kind of
apparatus intended?
4/23/44 See
3280-2.
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