Edgar Cayce Readings, 3422-1

Time and Place: 10:45 to 10:55 A. M. Eastern War Time. ..., Ill.

TEXT

GC: You will go over this body carefully, examine it thoroughly, and tell me the conditions you find at the present time; giving the cause of the existing conditions, also suggestions for help and relief of this body; answering the questions, as I ask them:
EC: We have those impressions here of that body called [3422].
As we find, from these vibrations, there are those effects from metallic substance that, because of certain elements in the blood supply, produce a very disagreeable and a very aggravating rash - wherever portions of the body become damp; forming into a running sore, or weeping eczema.
The better manner to cope with the condition, as we find, is to change the environs, the surroundings. We would find better conditions if the activities were entirely in steel, or in other forms of metal than chromium or aluminum.
For the disturbance, we would sponge the affected areas with a combination of one part hydrochloric acid to forty parts water. Then apply Cuticura Ointment. This had best be applied on gauze and put over such areas.
In the diet refrain from any meats other than fish or fowl, for at least ten days. Do include in the diet during those periods a great deal of raw vegetables, especially watercress, celery, lettuce, carrots, onions and the like. Radishes are also well, provided they are cut or grated or scraped. Taken in such a manner these release elements that are not released even in digestion, when taken whole.
Do these and we will make for better conditions for the body.
Ready for questions.
(Q) Please suggest an occupation that would be better.
(A) As indicated, work in any other type of metal - just so it is not chromium or aluminum. Steel would be better than tin or such combinations where there are the filings of metals, for the body should refrain from activity with these.
We are through with this reading.
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BACKGROUND

12/14/43 He listed his occupation as lithographer: "...I have what is known in the medical world as chronic dermatitis, a form of eczema; it turns the blood under the skin into water, rises to the surface making blisters. You itch and the skin rots and spreads, develops into ulcers. I have it from my hairline and ears to the calf of my legs and toes, mostly on the back of my hands and inside part of my wrist... My employer took me out of the plate dept. and started to teach me the camera, but the eczema kept on coming right along and the sodium bisulphate or metal in the developer stands as the accused... The following foods stimulate: Pork in any form, sugar, excessive use of salt and condiments, carbonated beverages or alcohol. Milk or ironized yeast help a little. (Took iron shots 1 yr., no help.) So I believe that in this world there must be a compound of some sort to be taken internally to strengthen the skin to resist these chrome salts and chemicals.
"My grandparents died of t.b. Has this eczema filtered into my lungs? My breath is getting short and heavy..."

REPORTS

6/18/50 Report by Ivamay Dennewill re Mr. [3422]:
"In April I went to see this man, and found that his physical condition is not a great deal different than it must have been at the time of the reading given, 1943. His hands he showed me were red and raw, but not 'weeping', or so it seemed at the moment. He would much like to be rid of this troublesome condition, but feels happy only so long as he is working in the metal industry, although I have not discussed in detail the type of metal he works with. I asked him if he felt he received any benefit from the reading, and could elicit little indication that he followed much of it. He just felt he did not wish to leave the industry (although he did say he had tried other jobs, and they made him so miserable he was not a fit person to live with). I suggested bringing the copy of the reading and letting us go over it in our Group, and try to work out something from it with him. If he did not wish to do that, perhaps some one or more of us could meet with him at home and do that. He had no idea where the copy was, so I said I would try to get one. Therefore, I will take the copy back and go to see him. At the time I saw him, he was in the middle of a deal whereby he would go into business in a small way, with one or two other persons, setting up their own company. The decision was being held in abeyance pending the decision of the one man (the one with the most of the money to be supplied) who could help them financially, and he was not in a mood to do any business; his family affairs, health matters, occupied him momentarily, and he wanted two or three weeks to see how that matter would turn out. Therefore, when I return to Chicago about the first of July, I will see him and then arrange for a study of the reading with him, and perhaps after all this time he can be persuaded to follow some of the instructions, and help to clear up his physical condition. At the time of the reading, it was a most disagreeable thing, and he was in a mental state that did little to promote a sane reading of the material, even."
3/25/68 He requested a copy of his reading (after reading EDGAR CAYCE, THE SLEEPING PROPHET) and sought health advice for his ailing wife he had recently married.