This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at his father's home on South Virginia St., Hopkinsville, Ky., this 27th day of November, 1924, in accordance with request by Mr. [3775]'s brother, Mr. [244].

Present: Edgar Cayce; L. B. Cayce, Conductor; Miss Frith, Steno. Mr. [3775]'s sons, [...] and [1427]. Room 322, Jennie

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1. EC: Yes, we have the body here now. We find there are serious conditions with the body at the present time. These conditions have been produced by specific conditions that have existed in the body for times back and conditions that have been accorded the body have aggravated the conditions and made it of a specific nature. Now these are the conditions, as we find them, in the body of [3775].
2. First, in the blood supply, this we find is carrying, and has been carrying for some time, that baccilli [bacilli] or that stretococa [streptococcus] that produces inflammation and pus in the system. These we find are produced first by a congestion in the system. Then the taking of virus in the body, brought to the circulation that condition that produced in the blood system, and especially in the cappilary [capillary] circulation. These pus forming sacs and this produces temperature at times in the system, especially at certain cycles in circulation, when equilibrium is wont to be made in circulation.
3. In the present conditions we find these pus forming bacilli have become of a nature that the whole system is becoming saturated with this condition and in the lower limb, in the left side, shows condition that brings this to a specific place from a fracture as received in the frontal bone in times back.
4. This reaching that stage where conditions have taken laxness to the creating of structural operations, makes the more specific condition. By the conditions as shown here these without caustic rusal [removal] will bring malignant conditions unless the scraping of the bone proper and the sealing of same, unless these show their reduction in the system there will be found the necessity of trefinding [trephining] the limb proper, then removing the marrow, for this is showing destructive forces here. Then, to bring the better conditions to this special portion of the system, necessary that this be done: Remove those conditions in the limb where these sacs form in the tissue and give internally Life Everlasting. See? With the sealing of this fracture, this would reduce under normal conditions this response necessary that trefinding [trephining] operation be preferred by burning and then boring into the bone, and boring them with the formation found in strong solutions, carbolic acid, in the center of the bone. See. Then reducing the temperature in system. In the nerve system we find the reaction from stimulus too, the nerve forces too in the functioning organ we find the system wasting; two conditions. Follow those suggestions as given would we bring [help] to this body of [3775].
   [11/27/24 Following above reading, the second son, [1427], reminded his brother of the injury their father had in 1923 on his left leg.]

BACKGROUND

1. See 3775-1, Par. R1 and R6.

REPORTS

1. 12/09/24 EC's letter to Alfred D. Butler: Yes, I have been getting along some way since coming to Dayton. But as I said before, if it had not been for Wyrick's assistance, I don't know what would have happened. It certainly was a bum deal handed Klingensmith, and too, by the very one who was instrumental in my coming to Dayton, and whom Klingensmith had every reason to have confidence in, especially as relating to the help Klingensmith was trying to give me at the time. Yet we both got the dirty deal. But things will develop from that, I do not doubt it at all. It simply takes a long time. It is very much like a circumstance that happened while I was in Hopkinsville. As you know, Mr. [304] has quite a number of brothers who live there. Their families all rather large. Only one, perhaps, out of the whole bunch, had ever accredited any good to what I was trying to do. But one of the brothers [3775] had been sick, between eight and nine weeks when I arrived. The doctors had been unable to locate the cause of this trouble, having taken out most of his teeth, his tonsils, and made three or four incisions in the body. Yet no relief whatever was given. The family finally decided that as I was there, they would like to see what I would say, anyway. The trouble was located in the left lower limb, telling the condition as you know how such thing is done. They operated next day at that place, and found just the condition as was described without any doubt. And as the family put it, couldn't any one dispute it, for they had it in black and white before the doctor ever cut in. Now it has been a long time getting into these peoples' mind the real truth of what was being attempted. But it has finally soaked in. It will be the same way with many of the people whom Klingensmith interviewed, and I have no doubt of it.
2. 12/10/24 Mr. [304]'s letter: [3775] is still improving, without fever now about six days good appetite, and has had good drainage from that leg so they say. Of course can't tell how that will be later, but he has been moved back home and is very much encouraged. The last time I was there, which was day before yesterday evening, he said something about your work and said the boys [sons [1427] and [...]] were just carried away with it, but said very little about what he thought about it, only that it was the most wonderful thing he ever knew in his life, "wonderful, wonderful" but would quote Gaither quite a lot. I said nothing whatever, except when he was talking about what the boys thought. I just said that I had never known you to make a mistake in one and that just what you said the conditions were, they were that way. He said he hadn't read the copy, but he had it and would read it.
3. 12/16/24 Mr. [304]'s letter: I was up to see [3775] again yesterday and he seemed to be getting along very nicely; his wound is draining very profusely yet, have to dress and put on clean "pad" two or three times each day but that seems not to disturb them and may be alright. I know if the corruption is there it should come away, but seems to me that there must be some source from which it is accumulating and coming, that should be stopped. I may be wrong, but don't think so. About three weeks now and seems to me should be thoroughly drained and healing before this time, and is healing around the edges so he says.
4. 5/15/25 Son [...]'s letter: "We have been talking for some time about asking you to give another reading on Father's case. [1427] and myself and Uncle [244] decided this week to ask you to take his case up again. We spoke to Uncle [304] and he told me to write you. Father has not been getting on well for the last 6 or 8 weeks. He complains of his sides and says he suffers all the time. After his operation last Fall he got better and was able to be at work every day. His leg is cured up as good as we could expect. He can walk without crutches. He is at ... every morning. He has been going to Dr. Stone's office between 3 and 5:30 o'clock each afternoon. If there is any other information necessary, you can wire me. Would like as complete reading as possible with recommendations as to treatment."
5. 5/18/25 EC gave ck. rdg. 3775-2.
6. 8/05/72 Report by Kenneth O. Cayce, Sr. [son of [3775]]:
   Cayce-yost, Incorporated (letterhead)
   Hopkinsville, Kentucky
   EDGAR CAYCE
   1. I have been asked to tell or write about my knowledge of Edgar Cayce, who was my first cousin. His father, Leslie Burr Cayce, and my father, Delbert D. Cayce, were brothers and the sons of Thomas Jefferson Cayce and Sara Thomas Cayce. Edgar Cayce was born in Christian County, Kentucky, about 10 miles south of Hopkinsville on what was known as the Palmyra Pike near Beverly Store. He attended the Beverly School which was one room building, all classes in the same room. Some books have been written saying that he was an illiterate person, however, this was not true. He was born on Sunday afternoon, March 18, 1877, the only son of Leslie B. and Carrie Major Cayce. He had four sisters. The only one living as of this date is Mrs. Sara C. Hesson, Nashville, Tennessee. Edgar was custodian of the Liberty Christian Church as a boy and was an excellent Sunday School teacher at Liberty. He read and studied the Bible, was a very interesting person to talk with. He joined the Liberty Church at the age of 12 years in 1889. 2. Edgar's father, Leslie B., was a man of neat appearance, clothes well pressed, shoes shined, and clean shaved, although a man of very modest means. He was one who was always looking for new inventions of his day and several instances taking exclusive sales rights for such items as patent gates and patent churns, being what we might term in today's business early Franchising. Later, he was an agent for the Woodmen of the World Insurance Company. He was friendly, and interested in people.
   3. His mother was a very quiet person, interested in her family and her home. My recollection is that the family lived at 705 West Seventh Street. They also lived at two other locations on West Seventh, at 503 South Jessup, and on West 15th Street. His last home was in Virginia Beach, Virginia.
   4. As to my association with him and his readings, I regret to say that when he lived in Hopkinsville about 1910, having an office then over Hopper's Book Store where he gave readings almost every day, I did not take advantage of the opportunity to witness readings and did not believe in his work. At no time did he claim to be a doctor or did he charge for his readings. He was later a photographer in Bowling Green, Kentucky, and Selma, Alabama. After the death of his family, he came back to visit relatives in Hopkinsville and was in my home on some of these visits. He usually arranged to be here on Sunday and went with me to Liberty Church for the morning service. There, he met friends and relatives of his youth. A very quiet man, soft spoken, but a most interesting person to talk with, well informed on many subjects and able to quote scriptures in his conversation. Almost every week I am visited by persons wanting to know of Edgar Cayce, asking where he was born, where he lived in Hopkinsville, the store he worked for, which was located at 704 South Main and is one of the very few buildings that has had the same store front on it as it did in the early 1900's, known as Hopper Brothers Book Store. Many ask if there is any marker or where his grave is located, being in front of the chapel in Riverside Cemetery on North Main Street. There is also a marker located just north of the main gate of Riverside.
   5. Many interesting events in his life are given in the numerous books published regarding his life and readings.
   6. The only reading that I witnessed was in Nov. 27, 1924, when my father, Delbert D. Cayce was very ill and an operation was to be performed on the following day. An uncle of mine called about 9:00 p.m. and said that Edgar was here visiting his family on South Virginia Street and would give a reading on my father. We secured a stenographer and went to the Leslie Cayce home for this reading. My brother, Delbert D. Cayce, Jr. was present. Edgar reclined on the couch, removing his shoes, loosening his collar. Very soon his father said to him, "Edgar, you are now asleep. (He was breathing very calmly.) We have the body of Delbert D. Cayce before you - go over the body and tell us what you find" - Edgar repeated the words "Delbert D. Cayce" two or three times - saying "we can't find the body" - "Oh yes," his father said, "it is in room 322, Jennie Stuart Hospital." Immediately, Edgar said, "Yes, we have the body" - beginning to tell how my father was affected, gave him many instructions as to how the operation should be performed, also saying that the trouble was caused by a very severe injury to his left leg and that this had happened about a year ago. Edgar had not seen my father for more than three years and had not talked to him while he was in Hopkinsville. I had no remembrance about the injury. However, my brother reminded me that our father had walked across Main Street just about dark something like a year ago. A boy come down the street riding a bicycle and the pedal struck my father's left leg, tearing his clothing. However, the wound apparently healed and was given no further consideration. After being reminded of this I remembered the accident.
   7. The reading was typed and I went to the hospital the following morning. After the operation, I called the nurse who had witnessed it and asked her to read the report. She said that they found the condition as stated in the reading and performed the operation as he had recommended, only using a different medicine by name but resulting in the same effect. At that time, we would not have dared to show the reading to the doctors as they would have given up the case. However, thirty years later in talking to the surgeon, who operated, Doctor Gant Gaither, he said that he believed in Edgar Caye's readings and his being able to diagnose. He also said that if penicillin had been known about at this time, 1924, he could have saved my father's life, as he died April 6, 1927.
   8. I regret that I did not keep a register of the many people who have called on me in the last 25 years asking questions about Edgar or to tell me of some experience with his reading.
   9. They have been from every walk of life: doctors, teachers, lawyers, ministers, engineers, sometimes they would bring their families to listen to what I would have to say.
   10. In the last few months I have had phone calls from several cities, people asking for information. In the early 1950's, a Mr. Russell from Louisville came to see me, he spent the night in Hopkinsville and asking the hotel clerk where he could find a Cayce. He said he just wanted to relate his experience with Edgar, saying that his wife had been ill in the early 1940's and the doctor in Louisville had told him that her condition was incurable and she would probably have only a short time to live. About this time, an article appeared in the magazine section of the Louisville Courier Journal regarding Edgar and his readings. Mr. Russell had a sister, a school teacher, in Virginia Beach and he called her to ask about Edgar Cayce. She said she had never heard of the man but would ask some of the teachers at school the next day and asked if she could get a reading on her sister-in-law. One teacher knew about him, also she was a friend of Miss Gladys, Edgar's secretary. She arranged for a reading which was given, a copy being sent to Louisville with a certain medicine being recommended. Mr. Russell said he went to several drug stores and could not find one that knew about this medicine. He then called Virginia Beach and asked if a mistake had been made. The answer was no, but Edgar gave another reading and was asked where the medicine could be obtained. He immediately gave the name of a drug store in Louisville and also the location of the medicine on the shelf. Upon receiving this information, the medicine was located. Mr. Russell said that in three weeks' time his wife had recovered and went to the grocery. At the time he was talking with me, she was living in Louisville and in fairly good health. Then he said, "That is why I wanted to talk to a Cayce."
   11. Another instance, a doctor from Kansas City came to see me one afternoon saying he saw a sign on 41 Highway South with the name CAYCE-YOST and decided to stop in Hopkinsville and spend the night. The motel clerk told him where the store was located. After a few minutes' conversation, he said that in the early 1900's, possibly 1910, he was a medical student at Harvard University and that one of his professors, a Doctor Munsterberg, was absent from class for about a week. Upon his return to the class he said that he wanted to tell him of a visit to Kentucky where he went with the avowed purpose of exposing a fake, a man who was exploiting the public. He then said that he wanted to report that he had failed in this and telling of some of his experiences. The doctor said that Dr. Munsterberg was a very intelligent man and that he was convinced after spending some time with Edgar and witnessing a reading he felt that he had an unusual power.
   12. I could relate many instances of persons giving their personal experiences and also conversation with Edgar. Reading books that are available form the Association for Research and Enlightenment of Virginia Beach, Virginia, would give anyone interested much information and interesting facts. Also, there are chapters in many cities in the United States. These associations hold regular meetings studying the readings and discussing information. The location of these chapters can be obtained from A.R.E. at Virginia Beach. Edgar told me of one experience he had in Bowling Green in his photographic work. Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show came to this part of Kentucky usually in September or October. They were showing in Bowling Green and Edgar said he wanted to get a picture of one of the Indians with the show. At that time, pictures were taken with a camera on a tripod and black cloth used with the camera. Edgar was about to take the picture when the Indian ran from the shop. He called him but he did not stop. That was the end of the experience at that time. However, almost twenty years late, Edgar was lecturing in one of the hotels in New York [Yr. 1921, Hotel McAlpin?], something that he did quite often. After the lecture people came to speak to him, one being an Indian. When he took the Indian's hand, he said, "Brother Cayce, you don't remember me but I know you." Asked when he had met Edgar or where, he replied, "In Bowling Green, Kentucky." "Oh, you were the man whose picture I tried to take. Why did you run and leave me before I got the picture?" The reply was, "I saw something in your eye I didn't like." Another experience was told to me by Dr. Phillip Haynes, who was a physician in Hopkinsville for may years. Dr. Haynes said he was called by Mr. Thomas B. House, Jr. to attend his wife when their daughter was born. As the House family had never had Dr. Haynes, he asked why they selected him for this occasion. They said that in a reading given by Edgar Cayce he advised them they should have Dr. Haynes. With that explanation, he said that he took the case. After the baby was born, the mother's milk disagreed with it. Edgar recommended that the child be put on a Carnation milk formula. After changing to this milk, the child improved and was in good health.
   [signed] Kenneth O. Cayce Sr.
7. 8/15/73 Son requested and was sent copy of 3775-1.
8. 11/13/73 Kenneth Cayce's letter to GD:
   Cayce-yost Incorporated (letterhead) K. O. Cayce, Sr., Chairman of the Board Hopkinsville, Kentucky
   Mrs. Gladys Davis Turner P.O. Box 595 Virginia Beach, Virginia 23451
   Dear Gladys:
   I am pleased to know that you found something of interest in the paper that I sent you on Edgar Cayce and it would be perfectly agreeable with me if you want to use any part of it.
   In the material that you sent D. D. regarding the reading on my father on May 18, 1925, and also Durwood, will be sufficient for both D. D. and myself. We thank you for your interest in sending it.
   If, at any time, I find or come in contact with anyone who has special information or experience with Edgar, I will try to let you have it. Thank you, and our very best wishes.
   Sincerely, [signed] Kenneth KOC/rgk

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