Edgar Cayce Readings, 4135-1

Time and Place: Unknown. ..., Ky.

TEXT

(?): You are now going to sleep and will be able to tell us what we want to know. You have before you Dr. [4135] who is in the room with you, he is before you now.
EC: Dr. [4135]. Yes, we have him here, we have had him before. [No copy of earlier reading. See 3502-1, Par. R1 report made by Dr. [4135] on 10/11/11, also used in 4135-1, Par. B1.]
(?): Well, I want you to go over him carefully, examine him thoroughly and tell us what is the matter with him, if anything.
EC: We have here now from the action here of the spleen to the nerve forces and nerve supply has been retarded here from the condition of the action of the white and gray matter until we have produced a congestion here of the spleenic action through the sympathetics; produced a congestion to the nerve center along the spine, just below, just at the lower end of the solar plexus never center. Then the action on the sympathetics or through the sympathetics on the solar plexus nerve center has produced a choking up or filling up of the duodenum. Produces this fullness all through the whole system. Same thing you do when you get scared. The rejection of the nerve force on the system to quiet itself, to do what the other matter tells it to do.
This is from forces inside and out, the action comes on the nerve force of the body here.
(Q) What else do you find?
(A) We find reflex from this same trouble. A little over the whole system. Nothing else different from what we had before. It is different entirely from here through the pelvis, through the lower intestines, through the colon; around the spine we still have a little lesion here at the lumbar, very slight, does not produce any inflammation.
We have here at the solar plexus (at the lower end) not in the solar plexus proper, is from the effect from the action of the spleen on the nerve force. Produces a choking up, a filling up of the matter, not destroying enough of the forces to allow even force to the nerve supply.
(Q) Any trouble about the heart?
(A) No trouble with his heart. We have force now you see, from the same thing we have here. We have action from the same forces produces a filling up like you are scared. Now we have the same effect to the heart, as if the whole nervous force go along the spine, the whole system. He feels it is in his head, feels it through the organism of the system. Just as if the system was scared; the same shock we have from the whole system.
(Q) What causes the trouble about the head, the vertigo feeling?
(A) No more than we have here from these other forces.
(Q) What treatment would you suggest to relieve those conditions?
(A) Cleanse out the stomach here. You see the force supply to the blood or the nerve through the stomach or external appliances. In this system the trouble is from the nerve force on the spleenic action of the nerve force. The action of the spleen to the nerve of the body. A choking of this in these forces produce the trouble in the system.
Cleanse the stomach. Spleen is next to it, gather these forces as we cleanse this, get out all matters in the stomach; purge it; get a reaction on the rest of the system. Take away from the supply or building forces of the body and make it react on itself.
Take something into the stomach, phosphates, sodas, something to tone the stomach until we have a perfect action of the whole forces.

BACKGROUND

Background re reading which preceded 4135-1, of which we have no copy, contained in report by Dr. [4135] which he gave in a public address on 10/11/11 before the American Association for Clinical Research in Boston, Mass. [for full address see 3502-1 Reports]:
One day in the fall of 1906 I was attacked by a severe pain and accompanying symptoms which I thought was appendicitis; I immediately counseled two of my medical friends who assured me that I was unduly alarmed and suggested treatment, which I followed, with some relief, but only for a short time, when I again became alarmed, - this time I went to a near by city where I counseled two prominent men with about the same result as my first attempt. The condition would get better for a time, but only for a little while and would return again. Finally, after eighteen months had passed with no permanent relief, I sought aid in another medical center. This time three men passed on my case and prescribed. They told me I had a Nervous Appendix. At this time it would have taken but little suggesting until I would have undergone an operation, which was not necessary, but when we are suffering, physician and layman alike want relief. In March 29th, 1909, I was asked by a friend to try "The Psychic Freak" and see what he said about my case; previous to this I had not seen him for a long time as he was now living in Alabama, but he was visiting at his home. On the afternoon of above date he came to my office at the suggestion of my friend, who came with him. He laid down and went into one of his usual naps. Now he had been told nothing pertaining to whose case he was to tell about, and as I had tried everything suggested by seven men and no relief, of course I had little faith in anything. But I was willing and anxious to have him try. My friend said "Go over this man carefully, (giving my name) he is here in this room. Tell us what you find. "yes, we have him here. A little over twenty-eight moons ago this man wrenched his spine, as a result of which we find an impinging on the vertebral end of the nerves at the last dorsal and numbers one and two lumbar vertebrae. We now find pain and irritation at the opposite pole, or in the inguinal region, worse on the right side, through the sympathetics. We also find some irritation of the bladder. As this was caused mechanically it will require mechanical treatment of manipulation to relieve it. My wife, upon being told, immediately recalled the time when I wrenched my spine while feeding my horse. It had only troubled me a few days and had completely passed from memory until it was recalled. My faith in his statements was strengthened when I found this had occurred only two or three weeks before my first trouble in the Autumn of 1906. Treatment along the new idea followed, but not until I had consulted my Grays Anatomy and found the landmarks as he stated. After three or four mechanical treatments my pseudo-appendicitis cleared up entirely and all soreness localized at the original seat in my spine. After taking a total of nine treatments, or from March 29th until April 21st, all my trouble ceased and I have not been troubled since. Then the thought came to me - how does he do it? Where is the source of his knowledge? Was it just shrewed guessing? In the cases and testimonials that follow I shall call on you to decide. [Perhaps there were several other readings which Dr. [4135] obtained personally for himself, but we have no other copies.]

REPORTS

6/28/62 GD's note: Dr. [4135] is still living and is enthusiastic about EC's work. He sent many people to EC through the years to obtain readings.
11/62 Dr. [4135]'s talk before a study group of A.R.E in Calif.:
He [Edgar Cayce] was embarrassed because the medical profession wouldn't endorse him and they wouldn't endorse me. Not only that, but he didn't know for sure what he was saying himself in these readings! He didn't know a bit except what somebody told him! Yet, some of the most ridiculous things that he pulled, when you chased them down, sure enough would prove to be true. There wasn't any "fake" about it, as far as I know.
When he would give these readings in the photographic studio, usually it would be just the name given him. "You will have before you the body of (so-and-so). Go over this body and tell us what you find." First, he would lay down and draw a few long breaths. After he was "down", he was just "dead to the world." He was "under", for keeps, except that he could hear what you said to him. But he wouldn't remember, afterward. Many times, after a reading was all over, I would ask him if he knew about so-and-so or such-and-such, and he would always be surprised. After a reading was over he would come back, just a normal, ordinary man. But when he was under this "fit" that he pulled, it was real. Where he got the "dope" that he did, I don't know.
I wasn't the only one that was impressed by all this, by any means. There were others that "sneaked". Someday it will all come out about some of those other doctors. But, you see, once you come from a reputable medical school, endorsed by the Medical Society, well, you're just "branded" - right away. Why, it's the biggest wonder in the world that I didn't get a "black mark"; but, instead of hurting me I built up the town! The whole thing was too big to be true.
Every once in a while Edgar would make little side remarks regarding things other that the purpose for the reading, but he wouldn't deviate from the main subject of the reading. And in the reading he would talk just like he was looking at the subject. Just like he was right there and it was all very clear to him.
I think he diagnosed my appendix some three or four times. He said it was back of the descending colon. I didn't know it, until years and years later I had all these x-rays. The doctor who operated on me said I was the luckiest boy in the world. He was three hours getting it, it was such a difficult location. If it had ever gone like any other case, I wouldn't be here, now. The doctor said if it had been inflamed - as hundreds are - he couldn't have dug it out the way he did. I've still got a whale of a scar. A retro-sacral-appendix is one of the most dreaded operations.
It's not uncommon, but it has a bad reputation. Cayce was the first one to ever tell me about mine. Of course, he didn't recommend an operation. In his readings surgery wasn't recommended very often, but sometimes he would - and then it was as if he was determined about it. Sometimes, like that, he would recommend operations. And then sometimes he would say that such-and-such conditions exist and the doctors that have it know what to do. In other words, he would put it right back on the doctors what to do - as if he knew what was in their minds, too.
He was a great advocate of this new treatment that has just come in recently - osteopathy. He was quite anxious for a great many cases to be treated by an osteopath, and he would name the osteopath that was in the immediate vicinity. Most of these had to do with a spinal adjustment or manipulation. I heard his name that many times. We would ask him if an operation was necessary and he would say no. No operation needed. Then he would refer to some osteopathic doctor and then he would tell what was necessary to be done. It was all so far-fetched that, even after I heard him time and again, I would think to myself that I wondered if that was a good thing to hang onto. Maybe I had better just forget about it. Then the next case I took him he would diagnose better than I could, or anybody else, that it would give me fresh courage. If you can imagine, nothing like it had ever been written out. It might have been wrong - I didn't know a thing about it - 'till a fellow called me one day and told me the New York Times had a whole front page of the magazine section all written up. Photographs and everything. Then the town filled up and you had better believe that it did! It was beyond anything that I had ever anticipated. The article was all true - about what this one doctor had said, and what others had said, too - and all with photographs. There was no chance of backing out. But the town filled up, and some couldn't find places to sleep and went on up to Evansville and came back the next day. Some went to Nashville. Why, you'd think that hell broke loose!
I'm not looking for criticism, and I'm not looking for remuneration either; but I want the records straight and true. After all, I knew this man and knew his family, personally, and can corroborate so much of what happened with my own cases. If anybody else had ever reported this it would be different; but, although there have undoubtedly BEEN others, they have never taken it up.
12/09/68 Wife's letter: "Dr. [4135] celebrated his 90th birthday on Nov. 11th and then on Nov. 28th passed away in his sleep in the early morning hours of that day. Although we had expected it was bound to come, it was a terrific shock. He had been in a convalescent hospital for two years. No special disease, just worn out. In Sept., 1967, due to strain, I had a stroke and when able came here to be with Dr. I shall be forever thankful that we could spend our last few months together. We had been married fifty-five years - a good record."