This Psychic Reading given by Edgar Cayce at his office, 115 West 35th Street, Virginia Beach, Va., this 29th day of March, 1927, in accordance with request made by self - Mr. [4874].

Present: Edgar Cayce; Mrs. Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno.

TEXT

1. GC: You will go over this body carefully, examine it thoroughly, and tell me the conditions you find at the present time. You will diagnose the case thoroughly, giving the cause of the existing conditions; also the treatment for the cure and relief of this body.
2. EC: Yes. Now, we find there are those conditions that are abnormal with the physical forces of this body. These have to do with organs and the functioning of many portions of the organism.
3. These, then, are the conditions as we find them in this body. First:
4. IN THE BLOOD SUPPLY, this we find below normal, yet the general condition of same shows there is an improvement in the physical forces, and were this kept much in this improved way and manner, and with the gradual gain, this portion of the system would continue to improve - were the rest of same kept in accord, so that the resistance as may be builded in the body is not used up; for while we find the ravages of diseased tissue in the body, and the blood becomes overcharged with same as it passes through these portions of the system, yet the ability of the leucocyte in the body to cope with the condition is very good at present, and while each portion of system that is attacked in its various centers must be considered individual, still the system as a whole must be treated as a whole. Hence we find the description of the condition as may be found in the physical forces of this body, [4874], may SOUND as if certain portions were much deficient from others - still, with the blood stream in as good condition as at present, and kept so, the physical forces would overcome the conditions of the body.
5. IN THE NERVE SYSTEM, this we find generally run down, and many of the centers and ganglia show the effect of over nerve strain. Hence the rest, as well as that of taxation in another manner, has proven, and does prove, beneficial to the body.
6. IN THE FUNCTIONING OF THE ORGANS THEMSELVES, in brain forces good.
7. In the functioning of the organs of the sensory system, the auditory and the vocal organs show the effect of the weakness in the body.
8. The organs of the throat and the bronchials also show the effect of strain from the taxation through coughing, and from the inability of these portions of system, under strain, to keep blood equalized in the system, or this portion of the system.
9. Lungs and bronchials show the distress in the body, and that of cellular tissue being broken down by inroads of bacilli that is destructive to lung and pulmonary tissue, and these conditions - while improved - show live tissue broken as yet; yet these conditions may be overcome by so INCREASING this blood STREAM as at present, and so STIMULATING the system as a whole, and in specific conditions, in a way and manner as to keep that as is destroyed or capsuled so run down, as it were, or ELIMINATED, as to prevent further inroads, and also to build up that portion of the tissue in throat, bronchials, and lungs, in such a way and manner to rid the system ENTIRELY of this destructive force. Not by allowing any portion of the eliminating system to become so over clogged that capsuled tissue may break through by inactive forces in the body. By not allowing the liver to become inactive, as to keep the excretory and secretive forces of this organ acting in the proper way and manner. By not allowing the kidneys to become overcharged, or poisons to be carried back in the system that would lodge with tissue that is being eliminated, or cells from tissue eliminated from system, and thus set up the seat or a specific center of activity in other portions of the system. By not allowing the intestinal tract to be another seat or cause of toxins, or of any destructive tissue as lodgement places that would weaken the incentive of nerve or cellular tissue in any portion of the body to the extent as to allow the destructive forces to become active in other ways or manners.
10. Now, to meet the needs of these conditions:
11. As given, that of the diet, that of the rest, that of the altitude - all have been and are good; though, with the changed condition in the system, the body may change its altitude or place of residence yet the ozone, the amount of oxygen, the diet, the amount of rest, must be kept as near normal to that as is being carried out as possible, if we would keep the respiratory system and the blood replenishing system in its active force of creating resistance in the body.
12. Now, these may be assisted MATERIALLY by adding to these conditions that as will meet the needs of the various portions of the eliminating and of the excretory system.
13. For the lungs, the cough, the bronchials, then, we would use two (2) inhalants, see?
14. The one for the cough and the bronchials, and that acts as an antiseptic for the prevention of tissue becoming involved by those of the bacilli as thrown off by the system attempting to ELIMINATE through either respiratory or through the regular channel of the excretory functioning of the body. This inhalant would be used two, three, four, or five or eight times a day, dependent upon the tendency to cough, or the irritation as is felt in throat or bronchials, or in nasal cavities. This inhalant prepared in this manner:
15. To eight (8) ounces of at least ninety-five percent (95%) grain alcohol - pure alcohol, add:

    Eucalyptol.....................1/4 ounce,
Benzoin.........................40 drops,
Rectified Oil of Turp...........30 drops,
Canadian Balsam.................30 drops,
Benzosol........................30 drops,
Tincture of tolu in solution...1/2 ounce.

16. Keep solution in a glass stoppered container at least twice the size of the solution, or a sixteen (16) ounce bottle, see? Shake solution well together before this is inhaled. Inhale into the lungs and through the mouth, and into the mouth and lungs through the nostrils, see? so we clear the head and clear the lung.
17. The inhalant prepared for the lung in THIS manner: Into a one (1) gallon charred container - that is, keg - charred inside - put one-half (1/2) gallon pure apple brandy, and keep this container near heat, but keep container corked tight, but prepare an opening - with tube - through which the body, [4874], may inhale the fumes and gas that forms above same into the lungs - DEEP - see?
18. The diet, as given, kept very much in the same way as given at present, and as the other properties for the system - as the stimulant.
19. Then, add this to that for the rest of the body: Every third (3rd) day, massage the body thoroughly, over the small of back and over the lungs, with equal parts Tincture of Myrrh and Olive Oil. Heat the oil and add the Myrrh, preparing just enough - just before using - that may be rubbed or massaged thoroughly into the spine and back portion of the body, so that the body absorbs these properties - the oil being the carrier and the Myrrh being the CLARIFIER and that that gives stability, strength, to capillary circulation, and increasing the circulation, and giving more strength to the body.
20. Do that. Ready for questions. (After pause) We are through for the present.

BACKGROUND

1. 1/05/27 Letter from Cragmor Sanitarium, Colorado Springs, Colo.: "Your name and address was given to me by a friend, Mr. [599] of ..., Ala. I wish you would please diagnose my case and let me hear from you. I have tuberculosis, affected in my lungs, am very nervous and have a little fever about 6 o'clock P.M. Am up and about not confined in bed."
2. 3/25/27 "Also have a cough; am up and about and improving. I want to go home about May and will use your remedy at that time, because I don't think I could very well apply it here in the sanitarium."

REPORTS

1. 3/30/27 EC's ltr. to [4874]:
   Mr. [4874], % Cragmor, Colorado Springs, Colorado
   My dear Mr. [4874]:-
   I enclose you, herewith, the reading as was gotten, and I feel very sure - from experience with others, and especially from the experience with the condition of my own wife - that, if you will follow out the suggestions that are made here for the improvement of you physical condition, you will be completely relieved of this trouble.
   As you possibly know, it was this same trouble (so I was told) (by physicians that should have known) with which my wife was afflicted when I became so thoroughly convinced of the good that might be obtained through these readings. From what you say, and the reading itself, I think my wife must have been in a much more serious condition than yourself; yet she was entirely relieved, and has never had a reoccurrence of the trouble - and that was in 1910 and 11 and 12. So, I see no reason why you shouldn't at least give this a thorough try-out, with the checking up on same every few months to see just how the condition is progressing. Possibly you are quite right. You would not be able to get the suggestions carried out in that institution. However, we did have one - an Army officer's wife - in the same institution, who was SO insistent that they DID carry out the suggestions as were made for her - though they were not the same as yours - with very, very, remarkable results.
   Let us hear from you whenever you have the opportunity.
   With kindest personal regards, I am
   Sincerely, Edgar Cayce EC:GD
2. 3/03/27 [4874]'s letter of thanks enclosing below report:
   ASSOCIATION OF NATIONAL INVESTIGATORS
   (This form to be filled out and returned after reading is received)
   NAME [4874]
   ADDRESS c/o Cragmor, Colorado Springs, Colo. - To be changed
   AGE 54 yrs.
   SEX Male MARRIED OR SINGLE Single
   NATIONALITY American
   REMARKS
   (You will please state in the space below how near, in your opinion, reading fits your condition, as you know it yourself, and if you expect to carry out the suggestions made for the improvement of your health.)
   As far as I know, my self, the reading fits my case and is right in line with my troubles. I expect to carry out the suggestions made in the reading.
3. 4/09/27 EC's ltr. to [4874]:
   Mr. [4874] Cragmor, Colorado Springs, Colorado
   Dear Mr. [4874]:-
   I was glad to have yours of the 3rd, and I feel very hopeful as regarding your condition, if you will carry out the suggestions as were given, and I think this may be done just as well in Alabama as in Colorado Springs - and perhaps better!
   Now, as to how often you should inhale the fumes from the brandy, you will be governed according to your strength. At first, I don't think you will be able to inhale more than two or three times during the day, and very little of it at the time at first - for you will find it to be rather raw to your lungs, or will seem so - or that has been the experience of all those I know who have tried this - but a little later you will want it more often and a little more of it. You will be governed according to you own physical condition.
   Hoping you will let us hear from you from time to time, I am
   Sincerely, Edgar Cayce EC:GD
4. 4/20/27 [4874]'s ltr. to EC:
   Cragmor, Colorado Springs, Colorado
   Mr. Edgar Cayce, Virginia Beach, Va.
   My dear Mr. Cayce, I received your letter of the 9th and thank you so much for taking such an interest in me. Am sorry I didn't think of it in my previous letter, but I want to ask you about heating the brandy. Will it do just as well to pour it out of the keg into a pot, heat it then pour it back into the keg & inhale it. This is the only way I see it can be done.
   I am feeling fine & you can tell yourself, that my nervous system is improving from my writing. With all good wishes, I remain
   Sincerely, [4874]
5. 4/26/27 EC's ltr. to [4874]:
   Mr. [4874], Cragmor, Colorado Springs, Colorado
   Dear Mr. [4874]:-
   Replying to yours of the 20th, regarding the heating of the brandy, no it would never do, Mr. [4874], to take any from the container and heat it. It is best to keep it sitting close to something that makes it evaporate the faster. It doesn't mean you are to heat it so that it will boil or the steam rise from it. You see, you put the brandy in a container three or four times the size of your quantity, and in the space above this the fumes and active principles of the brandy form, and this is what you inhale into your lungs. It isn't that it is to steam or boil, or anything like that. You simply keep it close to something that causes faster evaporation. When the weather gets warm it's not necessary to have it near anything, but keep your keg tightly corked, and you will find there will be sufficient fumes accumulate from time to time to make you feel it very, very, much. I know of this by actual experience in my wife's condition.
   Thank you very much for your letter and your asking about this. I assure you we like to keep in touch with you, for I want to see you get well and strong.
   Sincerely, Edgar Cayce EC:GD
6. 6/(?)/27 Report:
   ASSOCIATION OF NATIONAL INVESTIGATORS
   (THIS FORM TO BE FILLED OUT AND RETURNED ONE MONTH LATER)
   NAME [4874]
   ADDRESS ... (Kindly advise us in the space below if you have followed all, or any part, of the suggestions given in your reading of March 29, 1927, and give us in detail the exact results you have obtained.)
   Dear Mr. Cayce,
   I am still at Colo. Springs, Cragmor Sanatorium, but expect to go home (Selma, Ala.) about the latter part of June. It was my intention to use the remedy after I went home & think you agreed with me in that, as we had some correspondence about that. I am up & around and eating three big meals a day & feeling just fine. I note that you are suppose to have an answer 30 days from May 26-27 but I am replying at once.
   Very best wishes, Sincerely [4874]
7. 7/22/27 [4874]'s ltr. to EC:
   Selma, Ala.
   Mr. Edgar Cayce Virginia Beach, Va.
   Dear Mr. Cayce,
   I have been in Selma about two weeks and find it is impossible to acquire the Brandy here to use in my cure. I have asked doctors to get it, and you know they are prejudice against anything like this for a cure of my troubles.
   I think I am considerably improved and was wondering if there was any other cure in the way of doing. It is against the law in Ala. to prescribe for brandy or whiskey or the like. Am going to keep trying to get it. I was thinking if I could come to Virginia Beach & take this cure, if you made a practice of receiving patients at Virginia Beach. Will be glad to hear from you as soon as possible. Mr. Harris [Thomas E. Harris] has helped me as far as he could. Kind regards,
   Sincerely, [4874] Address ..., Selma, Ala.
8. 8/15/27 EC's ltr. to [4874]:
   My dear Mr. [4874]:-
   I beg your pardon for not answering yours of the 22nd before this, but so many things have prevented my keeping up my correspondence, that I feel really ashamed to address some - but I'm mighty glad to know you are feeling a whole lot better. I'm sorry indeed to know that you have been unable to procure the brandy for your trouble there in Alabama. As you will see from the data that has been sent you - and from what is being sent you in this mail - we soon hope to have an institution where just such conditions could be met. At the present time we have no place to take care of those who desire to come here. However, there are quite a number of hotels and cottages where individuals may secure lodging place, and I feel sure that we could get this prepared for you here - and, from the experience of which I wrote you some time ago, that my wife had with the use of same, I believe this remedy will prove most effective in your condition.
   Again begging your pardon for not answering sooner, but trusting that I may be of help, and assuring you of my desire to help in every way possible, I am, with kindest personal regards,
   Sincerely, Edgar Cayce EC:GD
9. 8/16/27 [4874]'s ltr. to EC:
   Selma, Ala.
   Mr. Edgar Cayce, Virginia Beach, Va.
   Dear Mr. Cayce
   Since returning to Alabama I have gotten the remedy called for in your reading for me and using it with the exception of the Brandy. I have made every effort to get it and will continue to do so. Doctors & Druggist have turned me down. I was wondering if anything else could answer the purpose. Kind regards.
   [4874] Selma, Ala. c/o General Delivery
10. 10/29/27 [4874]'s ltr. to EC:
    Selma, Ala.
    Mr. Edgar Cayce, Virginia Beach, Va.
    Dear Mr. Cayce
    I am living out in the country from Selma and am taking your remedy all except the inhaling of the Brandy. I do not improve but seem to stay about the same, except I see a big improving in nervousness. Mr. Cayce don't you think I should have another reading and if I still can't get the complete remedy here I want you to write what it will cost me, I mean board & lodging, or boarding house expense, and if you can secure the brandy if I should decide to come to Virginia Beach. If you make another reading send me your card designating the time & Mr. Cayce it is necessary that the reading be as early as possible, because I am at a stand still at present. I will enclose the fee of $10.00 with the card when I return it. Please reply at once.
    Yours sincerely, [4874]
    Address your reply to this letter at Plantersville, Ala.
11. 11/07/27 [4874]'s ltr. to EC:
    Plantersville, Ala.
    Mr. Edgar Cayce, Virginia Beach, Va.
    Dear Mr. Cayce,
    Am enclosing your card & a check for $10.00 by return mail as it appears that the time is short.
    I think my nervousness is improved considerable. I hardly notice it now. Am gaining strength but not like I would like to.
    My temperature goes just very little above normal about twice a week.
    I don't sleep but about 7 hrs. during the night, should sleep more.
    I cough just a little but the medicine has improved me considerable.
    You may not get this in time & may have to make another appointment. Will be at Plantersville at Mr. [...]'s residence, Nov. 10-27 - from 9 to 12. I came out here in the country and it has helped considerably.
    Yours truly, [4874]
12. 12/10/27 See 4874-2.

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