This Psychic Reading given by Edgar Cayce at the office of the Association, Arctic Crescent, Virginia Beach, Va., this 15th day of January, 1944, in accordance with request made by the husband - Mr. [...], new Associate Member of the Ass'n for Research & Enlightenment, Inc.

Present: Edgar Cayce; Gertrude Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. (Notes read to and transcribed by Jeanette Fitch.)

TEXT

1. 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:
2. EC: Yes - these are conditions as we find that have become almost of such constitutional nature that the entity has gradually lost control of its own will, and finds little to build upon as an expectancy for ever controlling again its own impulses in locomotion.
3. These we find are the greater sources of anxiety for the body. For the applications of medication, salts, and salts packs, the various types of heat - whether the diathermy or that to affect more consistently the activities of the deeper circulation - have all proved disparaging to the body.
4. We would first purify the system by taking Atomidine internally, one drop in half a glass of water before the morning meal, three days in succession each week.
5. After this has been taken in such a manner for two periods, then we would begin having - say, on the tenth day - the Cabinet Sweats using witchhazel for the fumes.
6. Then we would begin taking Chloride of Gold, prepared for the body in this manner.
7. Add one grain of Chloride of Gold Sodium to fifteen ounces of distilled water. Add two grains of Bromide of Soda to one ounce of distilled water. Keep these Solutions separate except when the dosage is to be taken.
8. Every day when ready for bed, or being prepared for bed, take two drops of the Gold Solution and two drops of the Soda Solution in half a glass of water.
9. After having taken these for a few days there will be the necessity for a good colonic irrigation.
10. We would keep these up, and after they have been kept for a month, then - under the direction only of a physician, use the bee sting juice as a means to excite or cause the better lymph flow, that has naturally become impaired by the tautness of the skin and epidermis over the connections or joints of the limbs and the arms.
11. After the administration of the bee juice, keep the limbs and joints massaged thoroughly. The bee juice is to cause immunity, as it were, to certain classes of poisons.
12. We would also take the properties that increase the eliminations through the coordination produced in the conditions through the body. These we would take in the form of vegetable eliminants, including figs and other vegetables properties, as the pie plant, senna, and such vegetables that increase the amount of gastric flow after foods have passed through the jejunum or in the pyloric portion of the stomach itself.
13. Do these, and when these have been taken for five months, we would give further instructions.
14. Ready for questions.
15. (Q) Due to her helpless condition, how may fume baths be administered?
    (A) In a cabinet that would be set up in the room.
16. We are through for the present.

    Two copies to Husband (one for the Doctor who is to administer the treatments)
    Copy to Ass'n file
    Two Miss Goodall for indexing

BACKGROUND

1. 1/04/44 Husband's letter to EC:
   Mr. Edgar Cayce Association for Research and Enlightenment, Inc. Virginia Beach, Virginia
   Dear Mr. Cayce:
   RE: YOUR LETTER OF NOVEMBER 26, 1943
   My wife has suffered with arthritis for the past twelve years, and for the past four years has been entirely bedridden. She has tried many treatments including the following:
   Diathermy (This has been tried at several stages of her affliction); Massage.
   Several months at Richfield Springs, N.Y. taking hot sulphur water baths, sulphur injections, drinking sulphur water.
   Epsom Salt baths, as hot as bearable. These have been tried at several different stages, also. The time last applied, she took 50 during a period of approximately 4 months, in conjunction with regular swedish massage treatments.
   Spent three weeks in Roosevelt Hospital under observation, and was given all known tests pertaining to arthritis in an effort to locate the so-called focus of infection. None was found, but she had her tonsils removed and then received injections of a serum made from the tonsils.
   About this time she also had all teeth x-rayed and had several removed.
   For a period of many months made regular visits to Dr. Eaton in New York City and received injections.
   Has been placed on many different diets. Has taken large quantities of citrus fruits and their juices. The latest diet, which she adhered to for a full year was a saltless and meatless diet - with the exception of liver twice a week, and consisted mainly of fresh vegetables and vegetable juices, and fruits, especially apples. During this period she was cared for by a physiotherapist who applied diathermy twice every day, and gave daily massage. Also had her leg placed in a plaster cast, but all with no beneficial results.
   Most recently she has tried to take high potency Vitamin D preparations including Ertron, and Drisdoll but has been unable to continue them because they caused great nausea, hot flushes and increase in blood pressure. Nothing has checked the onset of the disease, until at the present time she is practically helpless from the waist down. Her entire body is quite painful, particularly the left hip and both knees. Practically all joints have been affected, fingers and toes being especially deformed. She is able to use her arms, hands and upper body to some extent, but can only rest on her back or in a sitting position supported with pillows. Cannot turn on either side for more than a few minutes at a time, due to extreme pain in the hip joints.
   At the present time is receiving light massage with cold cream, which alleviates the dryness of her skin caused by the fever.
   You will understand from the above that she will be unable to follow any treatment which necessitates moving her from bed.
   At the date of her reading, January 15 from 3:30 to 4:30 P.M. EWT, my wife will be at her home in ..., New York. Needless to say, we shall be anxiously awaiting the report of her reading.
   Yours very sincerely, [...]

REPORTS

1. 4/06/44 [3561]'s letter [via daughter]:
   ..., New York
   Mr. Edgar Cayce Association for Research and Enlightenment Virginia Beach, Virginia
   Re: Reading January 15th, 1944 for [3561], ... County, New York
   Dear Mr. Cayce:
   In regard to the treatment outlined for me as a result of the above reading, I find that at this point I am not quite sure just how to interpret some of your instructions, so am writing for your advice.
   Due to one or two severe, and painful, flare-ups in my arthritis, and also to the difficulty we had in obtaining some of the medications prescribed, I was unable to begin your course of treatment until recently.
   In accordance with your directions, I took the Atomidine internally for three days in succession, for two periods, and then began taking the Chloride of Gold and the Bromide of Soda each night when being prepared for bed. Also the colonics as directed. It will soon be time for me to have the first bee sting injection. Everything is clear, until after that point in your instructions, when you say "Do these, and when these have been taken for five months, we would give further instructions."
   Now, my question is this. After the bee sting injection, do I start all over again with the Atomidine, and so on until after roughly five weeks, it is time for another bee sting injection? Or have I now finished entirely with the Atomidine, and do I just continue with the Chloride of Gold and Bromide of Soda for another month, and then have another bee sting injection? Also, have I interpreted your instructions correctly when I understand that I am to have the bee sting injection no oftener than once a month?
   I would appreciate your explicit directions on these points, so that I may be sure of following your treatment exactly.
   Part of your treatment mentions Cabinet Sweats with witchhazel fumes. No doubt my letter did not make it sufficiently clear that I cannot be moved from my bed at all. If an emergency arose it would have to be done with a stretcher, and then only with the most excruciating pain on my part, as I can now only stay in a semi-reclining position in bed. Therefore, for physical reasons I shall be unable to carry out that part of your treatment, but everything else is being carried out exactly.
   Thank you very much for straightening me out on the points mentioned above.
   Yours very truly, [3561] [by daughter]
2. 4/11/44 EC's letter to [3561]:
   [3561] ..., New York
   Dear Mrs. [3561]:
   Yours of the 6th has been received.
   As I interpret from the information attempted for you, every series of treatments should be carried all the way through. After you have worked up, then the injection of the bee sting your last three or four days, then begin the whole series all over again and commence to take the Atomidine.
   As for the sweats or fume baths, this would be better if you could have a nurse or an attendant to place you under the blanket and give it to you right in your bed. This would be fine and would take a lot of hardship off of you. Maybe there will be a little bit of trouble, but I am sure if you heat the blanket and dampen it with witchhazel, and let yourself sweat, you will find it to be a a real, real help for you.
   After you have followed this for three or four months, do let us hear from you.
   Thanks, and with every good wish, I remain
   Sincerely, Edgar Cayce [EC/gm]

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