7/04/35 [
3823]'s letter:
My dear Mr. Cayce -
Now that "Congress" is over in Virginia Beach, most
especially there, of course, I thot I'd write you of
my conditions at this time, lest ye forget.
My condition is a peculiar one. In the first place I
have to trust to the higher powers that my food is cooked
scientifically, as your readings advise, as I depend on
the restaurants for most cooked foods. Then the orange and
grapefruit drinks, even tho I add the lemon or lime, give me
pains in the arm so that I can't drink them two consecutive
days but I find many people are like that. I DO EAT APPLES
because of elimination but am not sure that they are good
on other purposes as my skin still itches or draws up tight
and smarts in back of neck, under chin and around the ears,
either one or the other but I can't always tell which article
of food is responsible for either condition. I eat a lot of
watermelon of late, or berries or cherries.
Now, in regard to Dr. Goerger, he said it was one of the
finest diagnosis that any one could give (meaning your
Reading to me) but they could not possibly forsee the
result of the diathermy and the adjustments.
One adjustment that you suggested could not be made until
lately owing to the pain in the muscle of the arm but now it
can be made with some difficulty and I think it is stirring
things up together with the diathermy which he gives me
according to his letter you sent him specially (to-gether
with mine). (You will recall you had part of it recopied
for Dr. Goerger.) He said the adjustments give therein were
exactly as should be, isn't that lovely! Such a remarkable
thing to be able to follow up every phase! He is very
enthusiastic over the reading you last sent me.
Now I don't want to encumber you with a lengthy letter but
you might be able to enlighten us as to the results of the
last two things mentioned, IF it is so.
One or the other, or both together, with faulty food,
sometimes maybe for I am a victim of circumstance when it
comes to food, in some ways, there has formed here and there
on my body little lumps which I call growths. Some of them
have moved or accumulated right in the pit of the neck and
looks like a boil but it remains to be seen - time will
tell, in other words, but it annoys, tho not painful only
occasionally, as the itching annoys is the drawing and
hardened appearance of flesh and skin but we'd both like your
opinion on that and the citric juices and whether apples are
a harmful exchange for citrus fruits - pineapple is good at
times?
I am trying to incorporate some solid food so I took a
poached egg, what I could get and a piece of dry whole wheat
toast with a little butter for a few mornings and nothing
else but hot water to drink and an old trouble returned,
swelling of feet especially left one this time, so then I had
to eliminate that for a while and am down below 100 lbs in
weight again for at noon I have only been eating head lettuce
and at night greens and a little bit of lamb and Dr. Goerger
told me to drink the fruit juices with the meat but can't get
it where I eat this meal so took the so-called sour milk made
from a culture, I think, anyway, not milk merely turned sour
of its own accord. So there you are again. You see I eat as
little as possible, later in the evening I eat the melon or
cherries or berries and usually end with apple as it seems to
feed me for a longer period of time tho I don't know that I
should let them. I do enjoy them, also an occasional baked
apple with my meal but there you have the sugar restaurants
love to cook with.
I enjoy a scrambled egg, too, but the additional butter or
grease gives its affects later I believe, also Dr. Goerger
asks me to avoid that element of fat and oil.
This makes you think that life isn't worth the living doesn't
it? But I still keep at my desk and the swelling at my
throat makes people think I am developing a goiter but I know
better. It is now taking on a reddish color and is spreading
somewhat but I don't touch it except to splash on hot water
and sometimes a solution or bath of Epsom salts which I must
begin again to-night.
On a few of these points we'd like to hear from you if and
when possible, in your own time. My arm is quite good but
the inner rotation isn't so good yet but I have to work it
out myself. I can not make it reach my right shoulder from
the back but I hope to soon. I no longer have it [baked?]
by Dr. Leadbetter, whom I had while in the hospital and after
leaving the hospital. Dr. Goerger is the only physician in
charge now and Edgar Cayce.
Hope you accomplished much in your "session" this summer for
your objective in life.
Sincerely, [
3823]
7/13/35 See
3823-4.



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