Earlier readings for Mr. [
5676] are not in A.R.E. files.
Perhaps he was present for the earlier readings, or perhaps
they were non-health readings. Excerpts from Edgar Cayce's
diary indicate that the following rdg. [5676-1] for Mr.
[
5676] was perhaps in the Spring of 1903, in Hopkinsville,
Ky., where he went to have Dr. Al C. Layne conduct the rdg.:
[See pages 137, 145 of THERE IS A RIVER.]
"About that time I received a request from a Mr. A. [
5676] in
New York City for a reading on himself. This was my first
experience in trying to give information for one at a
distance. Mr. L. [Al C. Layne] conducted the experiment in
the presence of several physicians, for I made a trip to
Hopkinsville for that purpose. In this there was clary water
suggested for him. We did not know whether this was a
preparatory medicine, or whether there was any such thing or
not, but the information written at that time was sent to Mr.
A. [
5676]
"Some weeks later, as he had been unable to obtain the
preparation, he asked that we try to give the formula for
making it. This reading was conducted by Dr. B. [Blackburn]
in Bowling Green, with quite a number of prominent persons
present - business men, professors and doctors. A formula
was given [See GD's note below]. Something like a month
later I received word from Mr. A. [
5676] that he had received
a letter from a man in Paris, France who informed him that
his father fifty or seventy-five years before had made and
marketed a preparation under the name of clary water, and the
formula was identical with that which had been given in the
reading to Dr. B. Mr. A. [
5676] reported receiving a great
deal of benefit from the taking of the clary water."
[GD's note: We do not have a copy of the check-up Physical
Rdg. conducted by Dr. Blackburn. However, in a letter
10/12/31 Edgar Cayce wrote out the formula for Mrs. [
5480],
[a diabetic] from memory -
5480-1, Reports:]
Put 6 ounces of the clary flower (or garden sage, dried) in
32 ounces of distilled water. Reduce by slow boiling, or
steaming, to one-half the quantity. Strain while warm and
add:
Simple Syrup.........................1 ounce,
Ambergris...........................15 grains,
dissolved in Grain Alcohol.......1 ounce,
Gordon Gin...........................8 ounces,
Cinnamon (preferably in the stick)...1 dram.
Shake solution together before dose is taken. [Dose: 1/2
teaspoonful 4 times each day, after each meal and before
retiring.] You will be able to obtain ambergris from either
Lehn & Fink or Eimer & Amend, N.Y.C.]
REPORTS
3/23/73 GD's note: In going through an old post card file
of Gertrude Cayce's (preserved from her Bowling Green days
when she was a Pen Pal) I found an old envelope postmarked
front from Brooklyn to Edgar Cayce in Bowling Green
12/30/07
and back received in Bowling Green
1/01/08. See Source File
Key #5676 for postmarked envelope. There was no letter
inside, but it indicates that Mr. [
5676] was still in touch
with Edgar Cayce on that date.
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