This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce in Hopkinsville, Ky., this 8th day of November, 1911.

Present: Edgar Cayce; L. B. Cayce (?), Conductor; Jno. C. King, Steno.

TEXT

1. LBC: You now have before you the body of [4396] of ..., Arkansas.
2. EC: Yes; we have him here.
3. LBC: Go over him and tell us what is the matter with him, if anything; what his trouble is.
4. EC: Now, in this body here of [4396] we find here at times back, (not now, but years ago) we had an injury here to the spine at the 11th and 12th dorsal, which has produced a lesion lateral, at the conjunction of the cartilage between the 11th and 12th dorsal, until we produce to the whole system here, through the nervous forces in the body, a congesting of the eliminating properties through the system, or an emaciated circulation through the lymphatics. You see the condition here.
5. The action to the solar plexus, which is above here at the 9th, and to the secondary cardiac through sympathetics, you see, to the junction below here at the lumbars, to the sympathetic nerves of either side of the cerebro spinal, which has pulled both in accord with these lesions, produced to the liver and kidneys the improper eliminating powers of both organs, the liver, kidneys and stomach being brought into the trouble gradually through sympathetic forces of the nervous system, and its action on the muscular and blood supply to these.
6. The forces in its action on these through the nervous system and sympathetic to the cardiac here, produce a more or less spasmodic condition to the diaphragm and to the lungs of expulsion of the air, and its action to the heart forces over the body. Hence, we have an abnormal temperature. An increase of circulation in the system by exercise of the limbs, which we have had here, produced an abnormal temperature in the body by the condition of the flow of blood through the system, hence we have kept the oxidization of the blood in a better condition than would naturally have been otherwise.
7. (Q) Is there any organic trouble of the heart?
   (A) No.
8. (Q) What condition are the lungs in?
   (A) Open cells.
9. (Q) What is the condition of the pancreas?
   (A) Very good, considering the condition we have the rest of the body in. The digestion is good, but we have a lack of want of food to the system through the condition of the system to take it on, and the exercise of the body and of the system calls for more. The power of the gastric juices to digest what it has, acts, but we don't have enough of it to act.
10. (Q) What must we do to relieve this body?
    (A) Relax the whole system first by manipulation of the body with the hands until we can bring the lesion into proper connection here at the 11th and 12th dorsal, and its junctures here at the solar plexus and secondary cardiac at the 2nd and 3rd lumbar, and 5th and 6th dorsal and 8th and 9th dorsal; then the manipulation of the body to relax the system to rest; then of exercise of the body as we have had before, but by the use of electrical forces applied as a stimulus to the nerve and muscular force.
11. (Q) What form of electricity should be used?
    (A) That of a static or direct current, to act on the nerves; more or less a sedative force to muscular and nervous condition in the body; or alternated force, first one then another, of static direct, static sedative, or static positive and static negative.
12. (Q) Should any other treatment be added to this?
    (A) Only as the conditions show themselves through the body. As we have the condition relaxed through the system we may have a relaxation of the liver from the atrophied condition we have had, showing itself through that of the intestines, as we have some inflammation through them now, especially through the lower part. No need of the removal of this condition now. We have an inflammation formed through here in the bladder, from the condition we have allowed the kidneys to be in. We have had too much sediment for the amount of water; not enough of the secretion from the kidneys to float the quantity of matter taken out. This is through the condition of the emunctories in the body in not being able to take them up and carry them back to the proper channel in the blood, or the improper eliminating of the eliminating organs and excreting organs. The liver and intestines have to be watched as the trouble is removed; first we have the condition as we have, relaxed; next is the keeping up of the muscular forces, that is, activity outside the body, and of the static electrical forces applied to the body.
13. (Q) Is there any operation necessary in this case?
    (A) No; because the condition can be eliminated without it.
14. (Q) Any internal medicine needed?
    (A) Only as the forces will show later. We may need some later, but not now. When we get the body in shape to remove these conditions then we may need something to remove them, but if the right treatment is given with the hands we won't need it.

REPORTS

1. 1/08/12 See 4396-2.

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