10/09/10 THE NEW YORK TIMES article entitled ILLITERATE MAN
BECOMES DOCTOR WHEN HYPNOTIZED, quoted Mr. [
4970]'s second
reading as follows:
Recently Mr Cayce was given for a second interpretation the
case of a man living in Indiana, and when asked by his father
to tell whether he had read the case before and to describe
the present condition, he said:
"Yes, I have had him before. Some little difference in his
case this time. Resting easy now; heart action not so bad;
rest produced by an anesthetic. We find this body suffering
from smothering spells, short breath, depression of the
heart, and very weak at times. Pains in the head, especially
through the base of the head, the first and second cervical,
and front part of the head and eyes; circulation is very
poor.
"In the first and second cervical we have a lesion there
which is from the reflex action from the pain we have below,
and gives off pains to the head at times and especially to
the face and facial muscles. This all comes through a
sympathetic nervous system.
"Now, at the seventh and eighth to the tenth dorsal
vertebrae, reaching the solar plexus, we find a bad lesion,
especially where it comes in contact with the nerves
governing the heart and hepatic circulation just below the
left lung. The trouble first began here. We see a
congestion caused from a cold in the left lung contracted
from the exterior, producing a choking up of the lung and
treated locally and externally on the side.
"This filling up caused not enough air in the lungs and
produced the lesion we have just above the solar plexus or
nerve center which controls the whole digestive organs of the
body, and the congestion we have here in the lumbar region
has produced locomotor ataxia and a withering away of the
limbs; especially is this most noticeable in the right limb,
and producing a very bad state in the pelvic region.
"We find the same thing through the circulatory system of the
blood. The blood is very weak; the red corpuscles are more
numerous than they should be, with not enough of the white
tissue to build up the body. Where we have a loss of white
blood tissue we have the same in the gray matter in the nerve
force.
"Not all the nerve force of the body has been destroyed. We
have weak and then strong spells because the circulation is
weak, especially the capillary, with a heart action strong at
times, producing palpitation of the heart and smothering
spells, dizziness of the head, and the same of the solar
plexus system, causing the emitting from the stomach of the
things taken into it.
"We have no organic heart trouble and very little of the
lungs, but some enlargement of the liver. In the left lobe
of the liver we find a granular substance from medicines
taken in through the stomach and bowels. The liver is not
doing its work in throwing off the bile and waste matter of
the body. That produces the enlargement of the liver.
"We have altogether a very weak and bedridden man, but he can
be cured. To correct this trouble, first reduce the
inflammation, then by giving plenty of pure water, with
alkaline treatment, the acid will be reduced. A tincture of
iron for toning up the digestive organs and blood, and static
electrical treatment along the spine not very strong along
the upper cervical, for this is near the brain, but very
strong through the dorsal and lumbar regions. Give digitalis
and strychnine to tone up the nerves and heart. With plenty
of rest and fresh air we will have the man improved."
5/31/27 His cousin, Mr. [
4845] requested his own appointment,
saying: "Following your reading made some twenty years ago
for a relative, [
4970], of ..., Ind., I am thoroughly
convinced of the correctness of the diagnosis so far as I can
know by observing a post mortem examination. Mr. [
4970]'s
condition at time of your reading was past relief. I have
told of your wonderful reading in that case very many times."
6/03/34 Mr. [
4970]'s cousin's sister-in-law, Mrs. [
639],
wrote: "My husband's brother, Mr. [
4845], is the one who
learned of you through a traveling man, calling at his store,
possibly thirty years ago, when he wrote you at Hopkinsville,
Ky., for a reading of his cousin, Mr. [
4970]."
10/16/72 Dr. Wm. A. McGarey's letter to GD in re proper
indexing of 4970-1:
A.R.E. CLINIC, Ltd. (Letterhead)
4018 North 40th Street, Phoenix, Arizona 85018
William A. McGarey, M.D. Director
Gladys T. McGarey, M.D.
Arthur F. Wright, M.D.
Ray O. Bjork, M.D.
Dear Gladys:
I've gone through the reading which was printed in the New
York Times, and I've listed a few things which I think may be
put in your index at the front. It's very difficult to take
a real diagnosis from the story of the reading as it's given.
The closest I can come to it is a degenerative nervous system
disease, and that's about it. He calls it in one place
locomotor ataxia, but that's the word that's given for
syphilis in its final stages, and I don't know whether he
meant that or not. He didn't describe anything of that
nature, so I question that. And he didn't give any therapy
that has been suggested in the readings for syphilis either.
So the locomotor ataxia is not a good name for tertiary
syphilis but is used sometimes, and people might think that
that would be it. But it is not.
Liver enlargement and leukopenia - leukopenia, of course,
means lack of white blood cells. Simply polycythemia means
too many red cells. He saw too many of those, and they
weren't doing the job anyway, and that's apparently the way a
body works.
So, the following list, then, is what I found to be my minor
contribution to your efforts.
Lesion: 1st & 2nd cervical, 7th & 8th to 10th dorsal,
solar plexus
Locomotor Ataxia
Degenerative Nervous System Disease
Liver: Enlargement
Leukopenia
Polycythemia, Simple
The hydrocephalus case you mention in your "P.S." was
reported on at the 1970 medical symposium here in Phoenix.
It has not been written up anywhere.
Gladys and I both send you our love and regards.
Sincerely, [signed] Bill
William A. McGarey, M.D. W/c Encl.
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