This Psychic Reading given by Edgar Cayce at his office, 115 West 35th Street, Virginia Beach, Va., this 1st day of September, 1927, in accordance with request made by Mr. [5540].

Present: Edgar Cayce; L. B. Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno.

TEXT

1. LBC: 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 the treatment for the cure and relief of this body.
2. EC: We have the body here.
3. Now, we find there are those physical conditions with this body that cause the distress through the physical functioning of the body. These are of rather the subtle nature, considering the results or effects of conditions in the body. Hence we find the greater portion of that as has been applied for relief of body has been applied to the effects rather than to that causing or producing the disturbance in the body of [4485] we are speaking of.
4. These are the conditions as we find them. First:
5. IN THE BLOOD SUPPLY, this shows the effect of the disturbed circulation, both as to nerve supply to portions of body and of the capillary or return circulation, or to the trunk portion of body from extremities. In the manner this is shown in blood supply is the lack of eliminations being carried on in the perfect manner. Hence drosses or ashes, as it were, of used forces in the system are shown in various portions of the body, clogging up the eliminating centers through the action of quantity, as it were, thrown into the system when these are forced through their eliminating channels.
6. IN THE NERVE SYSTEM, this we find shows the effect of being disturbed also, and there arises times when this becomes almost acute, from the effect rather than the direct cause of disturbance - for with nerve ends in various portions of the body becoming so irritated by the inflammation set up by the poor elimination, the body suffers from swelling, and from the effect OF the poisons left in the centers. This is seen most in the lower limbs, but is felt also in the trunk portion of body, and affects sympathetically those conditions as are producing distresses in the mesenteric and in the hepatic circulation.
7. IN THE PHYSICAL FUNCTIONING OF THE BODY, brain forces are good, very active - though very one-lined [in] thought.
8. In the organs of the sensory system, these show the effect as impediments, rather than as distinct conditions in this portion of system.
9. The lungs, bronchials, larynx, are very good.
10. Digestive system affected, as is seen, sympathetically.
11. The condition then that produces the disturbance is found in the sacral and in the lower lumbar. Here we find lesions have been produced by an accident where the body was caught between two pressures. This did not cause much disturbance at the time, but the constant condition of irritation has caused a curvature in the coccyx, and also a lesion that affects directly the return flow of the nerve supply and of blood supply to the locomotaries. Hence we have this condition in the feet. The arches show their weakness, through the inability to sustain same with the poor circulation and poor amount of blood supply as is carried to this portion of the body. The disturbance reflexly, as given, causes distress in the region of the kidneys, and the inflammation as is produced there is from or caused where the generatory system has been involved in conditions. This [is] not the seat, not the cause; rather an effect as is produced by the other disturbances, and the COMBINATION of both makes the condition so subtle in this body.
12. To meet the needs, then, of the condition in this body, [4485] we are speaking of, we would first, osteopathically, correct those conditions in the coccyx, sacral, and lower lumbar. This will be found necessary to apply heat - wet heat - to the body, so it will be perfectly relaxed, before adjustments are made. Adjustments should be made osteopathically, for the muscular conditions, the nerve centers, shall be followed out, as well as the vertebrae themselves set aright.
13. Apply, after such treatments - after every other treatment - that of the ultra-Violet Ray, that we may CLARIFY the blood stream and electrify the nerve centers that are stimulated and corrected by the changes necessitated by the adjustments in the body. Follow these out, through the whole of the circulation, from the 4th lumbar downward, throughout that of the locomotory centers, through the limbs, and through the feet, with this manipulation.
14. Take internally those properties in Petrolagar, using that of the ALKALINE nature, taking at least two tablespoonfuls each day.
15. Do that, and we will find in six weeks the body near normal.
16. These corrections, as we find, would be WELL made by Lydic, near here.
17. We are through for the present.

BACKGROUND

1. 8/18/47 Mr. [5540]'s letter to Mr. [165]: "...Since hearing of your interesting association with Mr. Cayce, I have a proposition to put to you. You probably remember having met the young man who is my factory superintendent, [4485]. He has been suffering for some weeks with some trouble with his feet, has tried several doctors now all of whom have done him no good at all. He went to a foot specialist in Dayton who fitted him with shoes supposed to remedy the situation, and one or two local doctors have had him on a milk diet for a week at a time, but with no improvement. He not only suffers a lot of physical pain in trying to work with his feet in this condition, but I am fearful that it will get him down before long which would be a serious calamity for him and to me too, and I was wondering if it would be possible to put his case before Mr. Cayce and get his diagnosis, all expenses connected with which I of course will be glad to defray.
   "I would like to take this opportunity to express my appreciation again of your coming down here Tuesday [from Chicago?], and to say that several of the men have taken the opportunity to tell me how much they enjoyed your talk, particularly those few who have got to meet you enjoyed the experiences you told of during the evening, and wished that there might have been more time devoted to that.
   "Hoping to hear from you soon as to what you think could be done about [4485], and with the writer's kindest regards..."

REPORTS

1. 1/15/30 Letter from [5540]: "...So far as I can find out neither of these people [4485] and [2258] followed out the instructions given in their readings and will have to be checked off as a total loss..."

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