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TUBERCULOSIS VOL. 1

A compilation of Extracts from the Edgar Cayce Readings

Edgar Cayce Readings Copyrighted by Edgar Cayce Foundation

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TUBERCULOSIS, VOL. 1 CIRCULATING FILE

Edgar Cayce Readings copyright 1971, 1993-2015 by the Edgar Cayce Foundation

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There are in truth no incurable conditions…. 3744-2

This Circulating File consists of an overview and the Edgar Cayce psychic readings on tuberculosis. The information is not intended for self-diagnosis nor self-treatment. Please consult a qualified health care professional before following any advice contained within this file. Articles may be included because the information supports the remedies and therapies described in the Edgar Cayce readings or are of a helpful nature. Their inclusion does not imply endorsement or recommendation. Before following any advice contained in the articles, please seek the counsel of your doctor.

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Tuberculosis Vol. 1

Contents Pages

A. Products mentioned in the Readings: 1. The Charred Oak Keg 4 2. Inspirol Formula 7 3. Animated Ash 8 4. Calcidin (calcium iodate) 8

B. Introduction to the Edgar Cayce Readings on Health and Healing 9 C. Overview on Pulmonary Tuberculosis 13 D. Testimonial 16 E. Case Studies from the Readings:

1. Reading # 25-1→6, 16-yr-old boy 20

2. Reading # 218-1, 2, 29-yr-old man 34

3. Reading # 230-1, 2, 25-yr-old man 41

4. Reading # 418-1→4, 22-yr-old woman 48

5. Reading # 538-1→4, 6, 31-yr-old woman, Gertrude Cayce 63

6. Reading # 591-1→3, adult man 78

7. Reading # 1045-1→11, 37-yr-old woman 88

F. List of Tuberculosis Readings Not Included in these Files 122 G. Colloidal Silver and Tuberculosis 123 H. Illustration of Bottle for Inhaling Fumes mentioned in the Readings 129 I. Related Circulating Files and Research Bulletins*:

1. Appliances: Violet Ray 2. Charred Oak Keg [Research Bulletin] 3. Osteopathy 4. Tuberculosis, Vol. 2 5. Tuberculosis, Vol. 3

* Circulating Files & Research Bulletins are available from A.R.E. membership services at (800) 333-4499 or: http://www.edgarcayce.org/circulating



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The Charred Oak Keg

Use of the charred oak keg containing apple brandy was recommended in about 50 readings for respiratory problems, particularly tuberculosis. Charred oak kegs are used commercially in storage of aging liquors since the charcoal absorbs impurities from the liquor. This is probably why Cayce stressed keeping the brandy in this type of keg. Even so, the keg must be periodically rinsed with warm (only!) water to remove acids that have accumulated. In this way "there is less of that influence or force which arises from the acids that come from such infusions [of the brandy].

To prepare the keg for use: Soak keg in water to swell; tighten metal bands as much as possible

beforehand.

Place one or two bottles of the apple brandy in the keg and allow to sit overnight. The keg should be about 1/2 full.

Keep the keg warm (about 85 degree F.) by placing near a heating vent or on a heating pad.

To use the keg: Using a tube, 1/2" in diameter, inhale the vapor in the upper part of the

keg through the nostrils or mouth for three or four breaths.

Repeat the sessions about 3 or 4 times each day.

Keep the tube above the liquid so as to inhale the apple brandy fumes, not the brandy itself.

CAYCE QUOTES

"First we would give that the body begin inhaling the fumes from pure apple brandy in a charred oak keg. Put half a gallon of pure apple brandy (such as Hildick's) in at least a gallon or a gallon and a half of charred keg. Prepare the keg so that two vents may go into one head of the keg after it has been corked. To one vent attach a little hose or a connection so that the fumes from the vacuum may be inhaled deeply into the lungs. The other vent is to allow air to enter, so that there is not the attempt to inhale against a vacuum. At least two or three times a day inhale these fumes into the lungs, blowing out through the nostrils when it is practical. Keep the keg in a warm place so that evaporation may occur easily. Do this and it will change those activities in the lungs that once in a while do break through. Use these fumes regularly." (3154-1)

"The activity on this is not only for the destruction of live tubercle tissue, but it acts as an antiseptic for all irritated areas; also giving activity to cellular force of the corpuscle itself. It acts as a stimuli to the circulation, then, recharging each cell as it passes through areas so affected by the radiation of the gases from this fluid itself." (3176-1)



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"For the properties inhaled will work with the activity of the respiratory system, as well as the properties contained therein will act upon the influences of the liver and kidneys in their ability to be purified - in the assimilating of these forces that arise from the infusion of these influences indicated." (1557-1)

"This will act not only as an antiseptic, but will so change the lung tissue as to bring about healing of the tissues, and will also increase the abilities of assimilation, and we will have improvements." (5053-1)

"These [inhalations] will irritate at first, but use through the nostril for the stopping of cough, as well as inhaling into the lungs." (3594-1)

"Do not attempt to inhale too much in the beginning, or it will be inclined to produce too much intoxication for the body." (2448-1)

"Keep the keg. This is as life itself. " (1548-4)

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Cayce Quotes: "First we would give that the body begin inhaling the fumes from pure apple brandy in a charred oak keg. Put half a gallon of pure apple brandy in at least a gallon or a gallon and a half of charred keg... At least two or three times a day inhale these fumes into the lungs, blowing out through the nostrils when it is practical. Keep the keg in a warm place so that evaporation may occur easily... Do this and it will change those activities in the lungs that once in a while do break through. Use these fumes regularly."(3154-1) "The activity on this is not only for the destruction of live tubercule tissue, but it acts as an antiseptic for all irritated areas; also giving activity to cellular force of the corpuscle itself. It acts as a stimuli to the circulation, then, recharging each cell as it passes through areas so affected by the radiation of the gases from this fluid itself." (3176-1) "For the properties inhaled will work with the activity of the respiratory system, as well as the properties contained therein will act upon the influences of the liver and kidneys in their ability to be purified - in the assimilating of these forces that arise from the infusion of these influences indicated." (1557-1) "This will act not only as an antiseptic, but will so change the lung tissue as to bring about healing of the tissues, and will also increase the abilities of assimilation, and we will have improvements." (5053-1) "These [inhalations] will irritate at first, but use through the nostril for the stopping of cough, as well as inhaling into the lungs." (3594-1) "Do not attempt to inhale too much in the beginning, or it will be inclined to produce too much intoxication for the body." (2448-1) "Keep the keg. This is as life itself." (1548-4) NOTE: You may purchase the apple brandy from your local liquor store. "Laird's" is a brand of apple brandy mentioned in the Cayce readings. Customers' Experiences: “Awesome Stuff! I use it (Herbal Breathing). It is the best, and I also have a Cayce (Charred Oak) Keg and get the apple brandy as Cayce recommended. It is great.” - C.S.M. "My friend had sarcoid in his lungs. I told him to try Edgar Cayce's charred oak keg remedy. He purchased one, and said he felt a difference immediately upon taking his first inhalation. After a couple of months, he went back to the doctor, who told him there was no evidence of him ever having had sarcoid." - C.C., Denville, NJ "...Several months ago I ordered the Charred Oak Keg for my sister in Pennsylvania, who suffers from emphysema-very serious case. She has used the keg with Apple Brandy for the fumes and has told me she would never go anywhere without it now. She went to Cape May one week without it, and she could really feel the difference. She did not feel as well without it. She says "it's an experiment in progress" right now. So she is using it 3 times daily and feels better! Isn't it wonderful? I want to thank you so much. We have used many of the Cayce products over the years and thoroughly endorse them. Thank you again so much."- J.C., Sharonville, OH



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Herbal Breathing (Inspirol), Aromatherapy

Herbal Breathing, 4 oz liquid in 8 oz bottle Aromatherapy Formula, Inspirol Formula

Penetrates & Soothes Nasal Passages Supports Healthy Breathing Relieves Nasal Allergy & Sinus Symptoms Edgar Cayce Formula Inspirol Formula

Excellent for nasal passages, sinuses and lungs. Also formulated to aid the body's response in combating allergies. Versions of this formula were suggested in the Edgar Cayce Health Care Philosophy over 300 times for a wide variety of symptoms associated with: asthma, bronchitis, catarrh, colds, congestion, coughs, emphysema, hay fever, pneumonia, post-nasal drip, sinusitis, sore throat & tuberculosis.

Cayce Quotes: "The antiseptic reaction from the gasses for the throat, brochials, lungs, that not only heal but that prevent accumulations from poor circulation through the mucus membranes of the throat, nasal bronchi, and the forces in the soft tissue of the face, from becoming infected from these drosses. But it will aid also in keeping down the tendencies for the circulation to be so active through these portions." "...when there is a tickling or coughing, or the inclination for sneezing...when these occur any time during the day..."

"the clarifying of the muco-membranes of head and throat... reducing the tendency for the glands to over stimulate the muco-membranes and thus relieving the irritations"

"an antiseptic and a healer, [it] will prevent the sneezing, as well as the tendency for the lymph to drip from nostril and nasal passages"

"purifying those areas through which sensory influences are at times clogged"

Suggested Use: The bottle is half filled. Shake the bottle, remove the cap and place the tube into the air space above the liquid, then breathe in the fumes. Breathe deeply through each nostril and then in through the mouth, exhaling after each. One aromatherapy tube is included with every Herbal Breathing bottle. There is 4 fluid ounces in each 8 ounce bottle.

(Note: Breathe the fumes, only.)

Ingredients: Oil of Eucalyptus, Tolu Balsam, Compound Tincture of Benzoin, Oil of Pine Needles, Rectified Oil of Turpentine and Rectified Beechwood in a Grain Alcohol base.

Customers' Experiences: "I can't believe the Baar Herbal Breathing. Years of sinus torture, gone with 2 treatments. Just 1 of 5 Baar's Edgar Cayce products ordered for less than a doctor's visit. Breathing normally is a rare gift which has filled me with great joy and a sense of well-being. I can't believe his [Edgar Cayce] treatments aren't mainstream. I wouldn't



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trade his readings on other people for a team of regular doctors studying just me." – L.S., Cypress, IL

“I was diagnosed with asthma years ago and used inhalers for a few years, but not since I began using Herbal Breathing. I do cough my head off quite a bit, but it is a productive cough and just as Cayce wrote, the herbal breathing minimizes post nasal drip and it does it better than anti histamines and without side effects (jittery feeling). I use a bottle or two of herbal breathing every month until it evaporates. I can say that the little bottles are so effective, I carry them with me sometimes.” - A.O. Beaverton, OR

“Awesome Stuff... I use it (Herbal Breathing). It is the best, and I also have a Cayce (Charred Oak) Keg and get the apple brandy as Cayce recommended. It is great.” - C.S.M.

"This product works very well!" - P.C., Chicago, IL

"I suffer from asthma and needed a non-prescription treatment to help me breathe better. I decided to get Baar's Herbal Breathing product. It has proven very effective every time I've needed it. I gave it to my father who has COPD and he says it helps him to breath much easier, especially at night. The product is of high quality and easy to use. It works fast, too. It is always at my bed side." - B.C. Princeton, WV

"I love your products. The Herbal Breathing has changed my life... " - I.J., West Palm Beach, FL

"I have never used a product [Herbal Breathing] that was as effective as this for my bronchial problems! This is my 3rd or 4th bottle of this stuff, it works!" - A.B., Beaverton, OR

Animated Ash [Anidex] 1/8gr

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Mentioned in the Cayce Readings, often for serious immune challenges, Anidex was advised for releasing oxygen into the system. Most often activated with a form of light therapy, either the Violet Ray unit or a very

specialized UV lamp system. May also be mixed with Iodex for topical application. Instructions may be found in the Cayce Health Care Philosophy. Read the Carbondex and Anidex book for the historical application of this unique product. *Anidex is custom made upon ordering and production typically requires 7-10 days. Orders will be held until Anidex is made. Should not be used if undergoing therapies such as radiation or chemotherapy.

Calcidin (calcium iodate)

“Keep the use of the Calcidin at least once or twice a day in the tablets; or, should the spells of shortness come too severely, dissolve a quantity and sip this at such periods; that is, in this proportion: Put 5 grains of the Calcidin in an ounce of water; keep well corked, but take in very small sips - that will produce a better reaction in the area.” 572-4



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Introduction to the Cayce Readings on Health and Healing

No matter what illness or ailment concerns us, certain basic principles about

health and healing are relevant. These are the premises upon which all of the Cayce health information rests. For those who would like to make a more careful study of these basic principles, the recommended Circulating File is entitled Principles of Healing. Here, in essence, are the ideas found in that file. They may prove to be very useful to your study of the specific ailment that requires healing for you.

The first fundamental idea about healing requires that we maintain a creative balance between two principles:

1. All healing comes from the infinite - that is, from attunement and harmony with our spiritual source. The infinite is just as accessible and available in the visible, physical world as it is in the invisible realm.

2. At the same time, each person must take responsibility for his or her own healing process. No one can simply sit back and wait passively for healing to occur.

This second principle - the need for self-responsibility - can take many forms.

For example, healing requires attunement, and no one knows better than ourselves exactly what has gotten us out of attunement. Often, if we look closely at our lives, we can see (without needing a gifted medical clairvoyant such as Edgar Cayce) what's causing our illness.

To illustrate self-responsibility further, the human body has a marvelous, innate drive to heal itself, but we've got to do our part to help. A broken bone will naturally try to mend; however, the fracture needs to be set properly for the healing to be complete and effective. Cayce stresses the healing ability of the body:

Remember, the body does gradually renew itself constantly. Do not look upon the conditions which have existed as not being able to be eradicated from the system. . . Hold to that KNOWLEDGE - and don't think of it as just theory - that the body CAN, the body DOES renew itself! 1548-3

Another important principle relates to energy medicine, a new field for which

Edgar Cayce was a pioneer. His readings consistently speak of the roles played by vibrations or vibratory forces - right down to the level of individual atoms. According to Cayce, there is a type of consciousness that exists in each atom. Although most of the passages about the atomic physics of healing seem rather esoteric, it might be easier to follow the analogy of the attunement of a stringed musical instrument. A violin or piano that is out of tune makes sour, discordant music - symbolic of disease or illness. Just as a skilled musician can bring the instrument back into attunement, we experience healing when our vibrations - right down to the atomic level - are adjusted in a correct manner. In essence, all healing is bringing the vibrations into harmony from within.

Balance among body, mind, and spirit is another key to Cayce's philosophy of healing. For healing to be complete and lasting, we must recognize and meet the needs of each of these three levels. Virtually no illness or disease can be treated successfully at only one of these three levels.



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What's more, Cayce affirms that the human body will naturally stay healthy - and even rejuvenate itself - if a kind of internal balance can be maintained. “Dis-ease” starts when one part of the body draws energy from another part. One portion of an organism may become overcharged with the creative life force, while another portion becomes undernourished. The result is a gradual disintegration of the body and the onset of illness.

The opposite of this sort of disintegration is rejuvenation. The readings assert that we are continuously rebuilding our bodies. Within any seven-year period, each cell is replaced. If we'll allow it, our bodies will transform any problem and resuscitate any condition. But our ingrained habits usually block this healing potential - the habits of action and, even more potent, the habits of mind.

What role do drugs and medicine play in the healing process? Cayce's philosophy clearly sees a place for them, but warns of misunderstanding how they work and of expecting more of them than is possible. Any healing method attempts to create an experience of oneness, in hopes of then stimulating a similar response in the body. For some people in some situations, a drug may be the best way to accomplish this - just as in other cases surgery may be the best way to stimulate healing. Medicines can be a practical application of the one life force. Occasionally they must be very potent in their reactions in order to get the patient through an acute illness. But Cayce from time to time encouraged people to consider the herbal formulas he recommended to be tonics and stimulants, rather than medicines.

The dangerous side of medicines is their potential to diminish the body's own healing work. This is what Cayce alluded to when he warned about “palliatives” that deceive the soul with half-truths and temporary relief. It's also what he meant when he warned that we shouldn't come to rely on any condition outside of ourselves that could be assimilated by the body inwardly. All of this is to say, take the medications prescribed by the physician you trust. Keep in mind this thought: what those chemicals can do is temporarily - and somewhat artificially - give your body an experience of greater oneness.

Healing that really takes hold and lasts must come from changing one's inner consciousness and vibration. That happens most effectively from consistent and persistent human effort (that is, engaging one's desires, purposes, and will) - something that pills all too easily allow us to skip.

These have been long-standing. Do not take the treatments just a few days, or even a few weeks, and expect to be well - and then revert to old conditions. But be consistent and persistent! Have periods when these will be taken (that is, ALL of those things indicated) for two, three to four weeks. Then rest by leaving them off a week. And then be just as patient and just as persistent as though you were beginning all over again. 976-1

Cayce's healing philosophy includes other insights that can help us avoid

misunderstanding. For example, one principle states that the best treatment procedures sometimes cause a temporary worsening of conditions. If we didn't recognize this possibility, we might give up just before the benefits begin to appear. A closely related principle states that when a body is re-establishing its attunement, it tends to be more sensitive. Again, if we misunderstand that heightened sensitivity, we might not see the good that is slowly being effected.



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The mind is a focus of other healing principles. The unconscious mind plays a role in many illnesses and diseases. One example of this is the karmic factor in health problems. Memories from previous incarnations, stored in the soul mind, can trigger problems in the body. Of course, we shouldn't go so far as to suppose that every health challenge has past-life roots; nevertheless, the perspective of reincarnation can help us understand what we could possibly be dealing with as we seek healing.

The familiar Cayce axiom, “Mind is the builder,” leads us to wonder exactly which attitudes and emotions best foster healing. The readings emphasize several:

Self-acceptance. As we rid ourselves of self-condemnation, we make room for healing forces to enter.

Optimism and hope. We're encouraged to expect healing. Patience. It's much easier and quicker to destroy health than it is to rebuild it.

We need to be willing to patiently invest whatever time is required.

Alongside these specific attitudes and emotions, we're invited to use the creative potential of visualization to stimulate our own healing. The mind's image-making capacity can be directed in such a way that we “see” the healing transformation taking place. This is not something that's accomplished in a single visualization session. Like all the Cayce health-promoting approaches, it requires persistence and works best in conjunction with other healing methods.

Perhaps the most important principle of the mind's relationship to healing concerns purposefulness. A person can experience temporarily an outer healing - that is, in the physical body only - yet still be spiritually sick. What cures the soul? A commitment to a purposeful life. Not just any purpose, but instead one that reflects care for other people.

On occasion a reading from Cayce would pose this question to the person who was ill: What would you do with your life if you were healed?

What would the body be healed for? That it might gratify its own physical appetites? That it might add to its own selfishness? Then (if so) it had better remain as it is. . . But first the change of heart, the change of mind, the change of purpose, the change of intent. 3124-2

The position of Cayce's psychic source was simply this: Why correct the physical condition unless there's also going to be an inner correction? People who are looking for both inner and outer healing are the best candidates for restored health and vitality. In Cayce's philosophy, healing should equip us to be more useful to others.

With this ideal of service in mind, we might also wonder just how we can be channels of healing to others. What principles govern our efforts to be healers to those for whom we have concern? One principle is based on the spiritual connections that exist between all people. It states that as we bring the experience of oneness into our own consciousness, it can profoundly help someone else experience oneness, attunement, and healing. Cayce's way of putting it was, “...raising the Christ Consciousness in self to such an extent as it may flow out of self to him thou would direct it to.” (281-7)

For this to be most effective, the recipient must desire such help and have requested healing prayer. Of course, we can always pray for someone, even if that



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individual hasn't asked us. But it's important that we not assume we know what's needed in any person's life. For one who hasn't specifically asked for prayer, we can simply offer prayers of protection and blessing, rather than try to direct healing energies to that person or for a specific condition.

It is also important to remember that each reading was given for an individual. It must be emphasized that no suggested treatments for any particular ailments should be “lifted” from any individual reading and tried by another individual except under the supervision of and with the cooperation of a physician or licensed health care professional. However, there were many suggestions that were given over and over, and these can be studied to find how they apply to ourselves. These healing principles can be grouped in four categories that referred to as CARE.

Circulation – moving the blood around the body through therapies such as massage or spinal manipulation

Assimilation – encouraging the body to pull the proper nutrients from the food by eating the proper foods and in the proper combinations

Relaxation – taking time to rest and let the body recuperate and counterbalance the daily activities

Elimination – removing the waste products from the body through therapies such as sweats, colonics, and fume baths

For more information about CARE and recommendations on the lifestyle described in the readings, please see Dr. Harold J. Reilly’s Handbook for Health. There are also many verbatim collections of the readings in other Circulating Files, Research Bulletins, and Treatment Plans for individual diseases which may be purchased through Customer Service at 800-333-4499.

The A.R.E. is interested in having all the material in the health readings reviewed by physicians and health care professionals who also provide summaries of their findings in the hope that the information may prove beneficial to others. When time and finances permit it is planned to have all the information in the health readings read by one or more physicians and the subject matter summarized. Please send any feedback to

Library: Circulating File Desk A.R.E. 215 67

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To obtain health items mentioned in the readings, contact our official worldwide distributor, Baar Products at 800-269-2502 or Baar.com.

We do not advocate a do-it-yourself process. Please seek out the advice of a health professional before implementing any recommendation.

In summary, the Cayce readings remind us that our natural state is wholeness and health. An innate wisdom within ourselves knows what's needed for healing. We should expect to get well, and we should be willing to do our part to make it possible. “Those that expect little of the Lord receive little; those that expect much receive much - if they live it!” 1424-1

Blessings, A.R.E. Member Services Team



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Overview of Pulmonary Tuberculosis

WHAT IS TUBERCULOSIS?

Tuberculosis (TB), a chronic bacterial infection, causes more deaths worldwide than any other infectious disease - killing more adults each year than AIDS and malaria combined. TB is spread through the air and usually infects the lungs (pulmonary TB), although other organs are sometimes involved. Some 1.7 billion people - one-third of the world's population - are infected with the predominant TB organism, Mycobacterium tuberculosis. This includes between 10 and 15 million people in the United States.

Most people infected with M. tuberculosis never develop active TB. However, in people with weakened immune systems, especially those infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV, the cause of AIDS), TB organisms may overcome the body's defenses, multiply, and cause active disease. Each year, 8 million people worldwide develop active TB and 3 million die.

The TB crisis is intensified by the emergence of disease caused by multidrug-resistant organisms. Infections caused by these organisms may result in an essentially incurable form of the disease. The World Health Organization estimates that more than 50 million people worldwide may be infected with drug-resistant strains of TB.

Standard medical treatment with antibiotics is usually effective in managing TB. Successful treatment depends on close cooperation between the patient and physicians and other health care workers. Patient education is essential, and many doctors opt for supervised, directly observed therapy (DOT). (National Institutes of Health)

EDGAR CAYCE'S PERSPECTIVE OF TUBERCULOSIS

Edgar Cayce gave many readings for individuals suffering from TB in its various forms and stages. As is typical for the disease, pulmonary TB was the predominant form discussed in the readings. Some individuals were told that they were infected with the TB germ which was dormant in the system. They were informed that they could avoid the disease process with preventative measures directed at maintaining the strength and vitality of the body. Significantly, many of the therapies recommended to treat the disease (such as diet, hydrotherapy, manual therapy, and inhalant therapy) were suggested to prevent it. Thus Cayce's preventative strategy may be helpful for individuals with depleted immune systems (such as patients with HIV) who are at greater risk of developing the disease.

For individuals with the clinical manifestations of pulmonary TB, Edgar Cayce provided explicit descriptions of the tubercular effects on the lungs and other systems of the body. Even when the primary pathology was in the lungs, Edgar Cayce's perspective tended to view pulmonary TB systemically. In large



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measure this is because Cayce considered the lungs to be part of the "hepatic system" which encompasses the liver, kidneys, heart and lungs. When one of these organs is affected, the others become involved to some degree. For example, Cayce noted:

[There are] very few tubercular conditions ... that do not at least at some time involve the whole hepatic circulation; and the destructive forces from such are active upon the liver and the kidneys. (1548-3)

The greater destructive force from tuberculosis IS the kidneys and the liver. (591-2)

... for rarely (this would be well for ALL to remember) has there ever been a case of tuberculosis without FIRST the kidneys going bad. (340-12)

The systemic aspects of pulmonary TB also include the whole alimentary canal affecting digestion, assimilation and eliminations:

Q. Is there anything wrong with my physical condition other than tuberculosis? A. As indicated, the digestion. This is the after effect that often comes with distresses of this nature. (3200-1)

This as is interpreted has been an acute condition of tuberculosis. There have been many ups and downs, many periods when apparently there was little hope for preventing further inroads into the strength of the body. Then again it has turned (as it does in some stages, the more often) to be so detrimental to the ability of the body to assimilate foods. And the foods that are taken only lie in the stomach and become corrupt in not digesting properly; naturally upsetting all of the digestive and eliminative systems of the body. (3154-1)

So we are setting up, then, in the system, the proper coordination between the eliminating channels of the body. Let's not overtax one at the expense of another. The system - or nature in itself - attempts to create the bettered conditions, so long as the life plasm in a cellular unit is created through the proper assimilations. Hence the diets and the activities in the system, carry on. When the eliminations through the alimentary canal are choked, either the liver or the kidneys, or both, suffer. So also does the lymphatic circulation, or the pulmonaries - so one may be given tuberculosis from poor elimination, just as there has been reported for this body. THESE are being cleared wonderfully. (337-4)

These systemic aspects of pulmonary TB contribute to the general debilitation associated with the disease (e.g., fatigue, loss of appetite, weight loss, etc.). Therefore, the Cayce approach to understanding and treating pulmonary TB involves the whole person and is comprehensive in its scope. The intent is to assist the body's systems in gaining strength, vitality and resistence to the TB germs. Thus the treatments for pulmonary TB are directed not only at



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symptomatic relief and the local infection in the lungs, but more systemically to improve assimilations, circulation and eliminations. Further, the Cayce approach takes into consideration the mental and spiritual aspects of healing.

EDGAR CAYCE'S THERAPEUTIC MODEL

Consistent with Cayce's comprehensive perspective on pulmonary TB, the therapeutic model includes therapies which address all aspects of the disease. Keep in mind that the Cayce model is a complementary medicine approach which does not substitute for standard medical treatment. Patients are encouraged to follow their physician's recommended treatments while applying the Cayce approach. With that in mind, here are the key elements in the Cayce treatment plan for pulmonary TB:

INHALANT THERAPY: The primary therapeutic intervention for pulmonary TB is the inhalation of apple brandy fumes from a charred oak keg on a daily basis. The Cayce readings state that inhalation of apple brandy fumes have an antiseptic effect on the TB bacteria.

MANUAL THERAPY: Osteopathic or chiropractic treatment is recommended to relieve any pressures that may be hindering circulation to the lungs and hepatic system. General treatment may also be helpful to relax the system and improve eliminations. If osteopathic or chiropractic treatment is not available, the use of an electric vibrator along the spine may be helpful.

DIET: The Basic Cayce Diet is intended to improve assimilation and elimination. The diet focuses heavily on keeping a proper alkaline/acid balance while avoiding foods which produce toxicity and drain the system. Essentially, the diet consists mainly of fruits and vegetables while avoiding fried foods and refined carbohydrates ("junk food"). Certain food combinations are emphasized. For individuals experiencing general debilitation, an optional body-building diet is provided.

DIETARY SUPPLEMENT: To assist with digestion and assimilation, Calcios (a dietary source of calcium) is recommended.

ATTITUDES AND EMOTIONS: The mental and emotional aspects of healing are frequently discussed the Cayce readings. Particularly, an attitude of desiring and expecting to be healed is important. A positive mental and emotional attitude and can be created and maintained by focusing on a high purpose (ideal) for being healed.



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Testimonial

7/30/73 Letter from Mrs. Rose Breda, 150-28 17 Avenue, White Stone, N.Y. 11357, to Carolyn Crum of the Edgar Cayce Foundation in re overcoming her illness with the Edgar Cayce treatments from the A.R.E. Circulating Files for members: "Here is the story about my illness and how I overcame it with the EC treatments -

"My doctor's (family doctor) name is Dr. Leonard Pace, 23-35 Bell Blvd., Bayside, Queens, N.Y.

"My chiropractor was Dr. H. Lutwin, 4003 National St., Corona, N.Y. 11368."

Love, Rose Breda "I will begin by telling you how I first started getting sick. In the 1950's I

developed rheumatoid arthritis and the doctors put me on Butazolidin. However, even though I used this drug, my health continued to fail. Several years later I began to have trouble with my eyes. I went to the doctor, but he couldn't find anything wrong with them. Finally in 1960 I woke up one morning and I couldn't see out of one of my eyes. I went again to the doctor and again he could not find anything wrong, but he prescribed Cortizone. Cortizone has very bad side effects, and for me especially, has very bad side effects. I developed glaucoma. Instead of taking me off the Cortizone, the doctors gave me eye drops to control the glaucoma. Even though I was using Cortizone, they feared that they were going to have to remove my eye. They also feared the inflammation spreading to the other eye. Eventually, they did have to take me off the Cortizone and when they did the glaucoma disappeared.

"My health continued to fail and in 1962 I was hospitalized. The doctors diagnosed tuberculosis of the right lung and a disease called toxoplasmosis, which caused my eye trouble. This disease also damages the central nervous system. They decided to put me on isonizes [isoniazid?], a tuberculin drug and para aminosalicylic acid. They also gave me sulphur drugs for the toxoplasmosis. I took these drugs for about two years, but my health didn't improve, as a matter of fact, I grew weaker as time went on. During this period of time I was unable to do much reading because of my poor vision, but I did read one book called, 'There is a River'. To this day I do not know where this book came from or where it went, but it made a great impression on me. This book by Tom Sugrue is about Edgar Cayce.

"In 1965 I had gotten much worse and the doctors put me into the hospital again. They found out that I had tuberculosis of both kidneys and the voice box, and more drugs were prescribed. I was already on isonizes [isoniazide?], para aminosalicylic acid and tranquilizers and in addition to these drugs they put me on streptomycin and cycloserine. Isonizes has terrible side effects. It causes hallucinations. At that time I used to have my own little LSD trips in the bedroom. I thought I was going crazy because I did not know that the drug was causing these hallucinations. It also affected my equilibrium and the middle ear. I would lose my balance and was unable to stand up. When I would turn my head from



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side to side the whole room would spin. As time went on I developed heart trouble and liver damage and the doctors prescribed digitalis besides all the other drugs.

It was during this period that I wrote to the publisher concerning the book about Edgar Cayce.

"In the spring of 1966 my doctor took a chest x-ray and it was found that the tuberculin lesion of my lung had doubled in size from the year before. Despite the fact that I was on all of these drugs, it was obvious that I was getting increasingly worse. The trouble had started with my lungs and travelled to my kidneys and voice box. The condition with my right eye had travelled to the cornea of my left eye. The eye specialists that I had visited felt that I would eventually go blind with this condition.

"Every time that I would close my eyes during this period, I would see death. That may sound odd to you but that is what happened. Sometimes I would fear going to sleep or closing my eyes to take a nap because invariably when I did there death would be grinning at me. It was a terrible experience, not knowing which would come first, death or blindness. I knew that whatever the doctors were doing for me was wrong. It might have been right for some people, but not for me.

"This was in August 1966. One day my husband came home and I saw the expression on his face. He had been to the doctor and was told that I would die soon. They had done all they could for me. I thought all night long and the next day when he went to work I got down on my knees and I laid my hands upon the bed and I said, 'Father, here I am. I have no one else to turn to. Will you please help me? You don't have to heal me. I really do not expect it. Just tell me what to do. Just show me what to do and I'll do it myself'. I got up and I sat on the side of the bed for a while and something just as clear as if you were speaking to me right now said, 'Throw all of your drugs away.' Well, that's what I did. I went into the kitchen and threw away every one of my drugs, even the digitalis. I went back to the bedroom and I waited for my husband to come home. I waited for the earthquake to take place. He came home and I heard him in the kitchen rummaging around in the garbage can. He then came into the bedroom and said, 'What's the matter with you, are you out of your mind? Don't you know you'll die if you don't take the drugs?' He said a few other things which I can't repeat here. I told him that if I do take the drugs I'll die. I knew this just as sure as I knew anything in my life. He then called the doctor and the doctor in turn called me and said, 'Rose, what's the matter with you, are you crazy? Don't you know you have to take the drugs or you'll die?' Then I asked him, 'If I do take the drugs will I live?' He said, 'No, I can't tell you that.' I said, 'Well, don't bother me. This is what I decided to do and this is what I'm going to do.' I waited for direction and it came. I didn't understand direction the way it is now spoken of in our Search for God groups, but believe me it was working. I think because I prayed sincerely to God that He did direct me. I had to fight my husband, the doctor and my friends. They had all thought that I had lost my mind because of all the strain I had been through. But I was like a rock. I said, "No, I'm not taking the drugs.' I just sat there waiting because I knew something was going to



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happen. I didn't know what. I didn't have the faintest idea what would happen, but after four or five days I received a letter from Virginia Beach acknowledging my interest in a Search for God group and in joining the Association for Research and Enlightenment. I answered their letter immediately and told them that I was desperately ill with tuberculosis. I sent my membership fee and asked them if they would send me the folder on tuberculosis. A week later I received the literature and immediately began to read it. Edgar Cayce's language, as you know, is difficult to understand, but somehow I managed. The first week I had written down everything he suggested. I told my husband that I needed an oak charred keg. He said, 'What in the name of God do you want that for?' I said, 'I have to fill it halfway with apple brandy and breathe this deep into my lungs.' My husband just shook his head, he thought I had picked up some book by some quack and was getting suckered into something. However, he did humor me. He did start looking all over for an oak charred keg, but it wasn't easy to find. He finally found the keg in a little Italian section in Brooklyn. Now we needed pure apple brandy which wasn't easy to find either, since most apple brandies have a grape base. We had to have an apple brandy made from scratch. (I began the Cayce treatment in Sept. 1966.) Then I had to find a chiropractor. [9/20/73 GD's note: Edgar Cayce in case [1548] had recommended an osteopath.] I did not know any chiropractor so I looked in the yellow pages and again I think God was guiding me. I found a doctor Ludwin in Corona who was familiar with the Edgar Cayce literature and agreed to use the method on me.

"Edgar Cayce had recommended Calcios and Acigest which are two medicines used for tuberculosis. Calcios is ground up chicken bones and marrow. The particular company that manufactured both Acigest and Calcios no longer manufactured Acigest. I wrote for the Calcios and received it, but I was at a loss as to where I might find the Acigest. I don't know how I found out that Acigest was diluted hydrochloric acid in some form. I went to my doctor and I said that I needed diluted hydrochloric acid. He said, 'What do you need that for?' He thought I was crazy and wouldn't give me the prescription for it. I got nervous and began to cry until he finally gave me the prescription. Now, I was well on my way. Edgar Cayce's readings in the Circulating File also recommended that I stay outside in the shade when the sun was shining and try to do a little walking. In the beginning I wasn't able to do any walking but gradually I got to the point where I could. Part of the treatment also included high colonics and massages with peanut oil and olive oil. This was just the treatment for tuberculosis. Don't forget that I was in great pain with the arthritis and suffering with my eyes, liver, lungs and kidneys.

"After having spent a great deal of time in hospitals and numerous consultations, I was never advised to follow a special diet. Eat a regular diet they told me. Edgar Cayce emphasized that I must eat a great deal of vegetables, especially leafy green vegetables and salads, drink a lot of orange juice and eat only whole wheat bread products, drink egg nogs and beef juice and eat only lamb, chicken and fish. I was absolutely not to be allowed beef, pork or sweets.

In February, 1967 I went to Doctor Pace, my family doctor. He took x-rays of my lungs. He called me up the next day and told me he could not even find a



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scar on my lungs. When my husband came home I told him what the doctor had said. My husband, needless to say, was shocked because I was still very weak. My attitude had changed, I used to cry every day of my life, now I was optimistic, enthusiastic and full of bounce. There was just something about this treatment that did this for you. My husband, however, called the doctor and asked him to take the new x-rays to the hospital and compare them to the others. My doctor did this and called in a consultant to verify his findings. The results were the same, no scar tissue. He then tested my blood. When the results of this test proved negative he put me in the hospital in April 1967 for a complete and thorough examination. They started a series of tests. They put dye in my blood stream and took x-rays of my kidneys that way. They also took blood tests and urine tests every day. They did a cystoscope on my kidneys and took x-rays while they were doing that. After a week the doctor came into my room with the results of the tests. He sat down on the chair and said, 'I don't believe this but you are well, ' and he just shook his head. I said, 'I know, I know, ' but he didn't talk anymore, he just got up and walked out. I think the shock was too much for him. I have not taken any drugs since and my heart for all intents and purposes is alright. I have no evidence of arthritis. I am still blind in my right eye, but now I no longer have any trouble with my left, so whatever this disease was, it also subsided. It took me sometime to get my strength back. As a matter of fact I think I am still getting it back, but nevertheless you can see that I am not sick.

"(Was found cured in April 1967 - 6 1/2 months after beginning the Cayce treatment.)" 9/20/73 Note by Carolyn Crum: "Rose Breda is now active in starting Search for God study groups in Queens and has given lectures at the New York A.R.E. Center on health. I met her at the 1973 Study Group Congress when she was a representative of the New York area. She told me this story and I asked her to write it up for our records." Gladys Davis' note: "In conjunction with the inhaling of the fumes from Apple Brandy in the Charred Oak Keg, the readings invariably suggest the taking of Acigest and Calcios. Acigest is hydrochloric acid in a form easily assimilated and taken a teaspoonful in a glass of raw milk at the evening meal. Calcios is free calcium easily assimilated; spread thinly on a whole-wheat cracker and eat at noon meal. Perhaps in the beginning, it would be best to take both of these properties just 3 times each week, but on alternate days.”



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INDEX OF READING 25-1 M 16 Diet: Tuberculosis Par. 12 Exercise Par. 11 Knees: Rheumatism Par. R2, R3, R5 Locomotion: Impaired: Rheumatism Par. 3 Physiotherapy: Massage: Apple Vinegar & Salt Par. 7, 8, 9 Prescriptions: Alcohol, Grain: Tuberculosis Par. 10, 11 : Calisaya Bark: Par. 10, 11 : Elder Flower: Par. 10, 11 : Red Root: Par. 10, 11 : Sarsaparilla Root: Par. 10, 11 : Sassafras Root: Par. 10, 11 : Tolu, Balsam Of: Par. 10, 11 : Water, Rain: Par. 10, 11 : Yellow Dock Root: Par. 10, 11 RHEUMATIC FEVER RHEUMATISM Surgery: Tonsillectomy Par. R5 TUBERCULOSIS BACKGROUND OF READING 25-1 M 16 None. TEXT OF READING 25-1 M 16 This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at Phillips Hotel, Room 115, Dayton, Ohio, this 26th day of March, 1924, in accordance with request made by his mother, [26]. 1. EC: Now, we find abnormal conditions in the body, and these may be corrected, though they have become in a manner grown with the body, and the development in the developing physical forces has become a part of the physical forces; yet these may be corrected with the proper forces applied in the physical of this body.



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2. Now, these are conditions as we find them in this body, [25] we are speaking of. First: 3. BLOOD SUPPLY, the blood supply is very good at the present time. There has been in times back that bacilli that carried in the system those that affected the tissue, especially the white or lymphatic forces, and system, and hence the inability of the lymphatic centers in extremities to coordinate with the nerve and tissue of the body in those portions of the system. Hence under knees, in arms, in feet, in the locomotories we find those have become taut, and the centers do not function in their normal way and manner. 4. IN THE NERVE SYSTEM, these are very good, save where the centers come in contact with these portions of the lymphatic system thus affected, and about each of these ganglia there has formed that in the perineurial sheath itself that which prevents the normal flow, yet has formed a normal flow for the condition. 5. IN THE FUNCTIONING OF THE ORGANS THEMSELVES, we find these very good in many respects. Some cold and congestion in the system at the present time. Hence the effect as is shown in the elimination in the hepatic circulation. Liver out of order and does not function normally, yet the general condition of the body is very good. 6. Then to bring the normal forces to this body would be through persistent and consistent applications to those parts affected. Give in the system that vibration that will bring the lymphatic circulation, the nerve ganglions, again into that condition that they may be (the condition) absorbed and eliminated from the system. 7. Over the portions then affected we would apply this: 8. Mix pure apple vinegar with sufficient heated and pulverized salt until the solution will be very thick. Massage thoroughly into the joints and into the plexuses that are thus affected; knees, feet, hips, abdomen. This solution once each day. When pain is caused in these portions apply this same solution with heat. 9. Then give into the system that which will eliminate through the proper channels. Let this solution be massaged, of course, into all portions of the body that show this stiffness, this lack of vibration; arms, along the small of the back, through the hips, through the shoulder region; that is brachial plexus, and in the extremities, those of the lymphatic centers that are involved in the condition. 10. In the system take this: To one gallon of rain water, add: Sarsaparilla Root........4 ounces, Yellow Dock Root.........2 ounces, Sassafras Root........2 ounces, Calisaya Bark..........2 ounces, Red Root..........2 ounces, Elder Flower.............2 ounces. 11. Reduce by simmering (not boiling) to one quart. Strain while warm and add two drams Balsam of Tolu cut in four ounces of pure grain alcohol. The dose would be two teaspoonfuls mornings and evenings, before meals in the morning, upon retiring in the evenings, after the massage has been taken. Keep the exercises for the body that keep all muscular forces active with the nerves and ligament improvement, without strain.



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12. Do that. Keep the mental forces balanced. Keep in the system in the food and diet, not of meats, but of vegetable, fish and game, wild game especially may be used. 13. We will find we will bring the conditions normal for this body. It will take time, it will take patience. The body is deserving it. REPORTS OF READING 25-1 M 16 R1. GD's note: 1/46 A.R.E. Bulletin on THE PHYSICAL READINGS by HLC, re. a study of 12 cases of tuberculosis, quoted from Case [25] on page 7: "No. 25. This reading described a result of tubercular bacilli attacking the lymphatic centers. Liver functions were abnormal. Eliminations were poor. Circulation was poor. There was a tautness under the knees, in arms and in the feet. This is the description of the results of tubercular action. Since the germs were not active in the body at the time of reading, the source of infection might have been obscure without the reading. "These notes have been presented with the idea of clarifying the point that a study of a large cross-section of the readings on tuberculosis might reveal causes of the disease that are ignored by many branches of medical science." R2. 5/21/24 Letter from [25]'s mother: "...Thank you very much for your readings. I was a good while getting the drugs. His knee is the same, as yet I see no improvement. Before I wrote to you his doctor here advised his tonsils being taken out. I do not know what to do, as you never advised it. I will write again as soon as he improves. I thank you with all my heart, and trust I can do more for you later..." R3. 6/6/24 Letter from [25]'s mother: "...My son's knee is no better but for 2 or 3 days cannot bend it and it is painful to move. He has not taken all the medicine, it is so tender he cannot endure severe rubbing with the salt. Should it be liquid or grains of salt, instead of brine? Sometime ago the doctor said for him to have his tonsils removed. If you examine him again please find out about this. I will pay you when I can. Prayerfully..." R4. 6/13/24 at 11: 00 A.M. reading attempted: "No." R5. 8/8/24 Letter from [25]'s mother: "...I have been from home 2 months. Your letter regarding my son only last night came to me. We had trouble getting the medicine. He goes to school on a bus, some mornings he failed to massage his knee, at times it was so tender and painful the salt made it worse. He and I do believe in a Divine power. We have tried several doctors and I felt you could tell us the right thing. He is as when I first wrote - knee stiff and painful hurts to move. One doctor said to remove his tonsils. I asked you about this. ...I will certainly follow directions in regard to my son and will pay you when my husband is paid off. ...Hoping to hear just what condition you found him in and if he should have tonsils removed..."



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INDEX OF READING 25-2 M 16 Knees: Rheumatism Par. 2 Osteopathy: Tuberculosis Par. 4, 5 Prescriptions: Sarsaparilla Syrup: Eliminations Par. 4 : Soda, Phosphate Of: Par. 4 RHEUMATIC FEVER RHEUMATISM Surgery: Tonsillectomy Par. 3 TUBERCULOSIS BACKGROUND OF READING 25-2 M 16 None. TEXT OF READING 25-2 M 16 This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at his home, 322 Grafton Avenue, Dayton, Ohio, this 23rd day of August, 1924, in accordance with request made by his mother, Mrs. [26]. 2. EC: Now, we do not find a great deal of difference, physically, in the conditions in the body at the present time from that as we had here before, for those conditions that were to be accorded in the system have not had the effect as they should, for they have not been carried in the system as they should. Hence the condition in the lower extremities, especially in knees, where that the poisons that are exhibited in the system have their effect on the nerve ligaments and movement of the body. At the present time most as much as has been heretofore; save the difference in the diet the body is near the same. 3. The condition in the throat, that in the tonsil, is of such at present that it would be better were these removed, and we will find with this removal, by operation, you see, that we will rid the system of a great deal of the poisons as find manifestation in the locomotion of the body. It will be necessary, however, that eliminations in liver and kidneys be kept in the manner that the blood supply will overcome the condition to the nerve and to the organs as are affected by this condition. Hence it would be necessary that, not too much excitement to the secreting organs but, sufficient and rather of the lactic nature than of the acid; that is, these properties taken to produce elimination shall be lactics and of the saline nature rather than of an acid nature. That is, such as these would be well for the body to take regularly for some time after this was done:



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4. Plain Phosphate of Soda, half a teaspoonful in a half glass of water, and add five to six drops of Oil, or Syrup, of Sarsaparilla. This will be found will keep the system cleansed, and well that the body be manipulated through the lower lumbar region, and the lower dorsal region, that the adjustments may be made, as have been given, that produce this condition, for with the removal of a condition created that which produced at first must be corrected also. 5. Do that, and we will bring the body to the normal forces. Do that osteopathically. 6. We are through. REPORTS OF READING 25-2 M 16 R1. 8/23/24 Letter from EC to [25]'s mother: "...I am enclosing the reading gotten today for your son... I judge from this reading...the first was not carried out fully. To get desired results, I am sure that it would be necessary - to carry out the other suggestions..." R2. 5/3/25 Letter from [25]'s mother: "...I am writing to let you know that the chiropractor treating my son, for whom you prescribed, has helped him to some extent, but wishes him to be confined to his bed for further treatment, which he soon will be able to do and I can write you more fully..." R3. 11/17/25 Letter from [25]'s mother: "...My son with the lame back and stiff knees, has taken quite a few treatments from chiropractic as you said - no help and has gone back to a physician, who don't like the former's treatments. My son is so thin and can hardly walk, do you think an operation on the ligaments might help? He is so anxious to get well and finish school. Will be glad to hear what you think best about these two [son and husband, [28]]..."



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INDEX OF READING 25-3 M 18 LOCOMOTION: IMPAIRED: RHEUMATISM Physiotherapy: Massage: Myrrh: Rheumatism Par. 2, 3 : Oils, Olive: Par. 2, 3 : Packs: Antiphlogistine: Par. 2, 3 : Epsom Salts: Par. 2, 3 Prescriptions: Alcohol, Grain: Tuberculosis Par. 5, 6 : Calisaya Bark Extract: Par. 5, 6 : Poke Root, Tincture: Par. 5, 6 : Sage, Garden, Dried: Par. 5, 6 : Sarsaparilla Syrup: Par. 5, 6 : Stillingia, Extract: Par. 5, 6 : Tolu, Balsam Of: Par. 5, 6 : Valerian, Tincture: Par. 5, 6 : Water, Distilled: Par. 5, 6 : Wild Cherry Extract: Par. 5, 6 RHEUMATISM Supports: Casts: Not Recommended Par. 1 TUBERCULOSIS: TENDENCIES WORK: E.C.: READINGS: VOLUNTARY BACKGROUND OF READING 25-3 M 18 B1. Previous readings 25-1 and 25-2 were given by request of the mother for the young man's condition. B2. 1/14/26 Mother's letter: "...I thank you for the interest shown in regard to my troubles. Am asking you to give a reading just as soon as possible for my son. He has to stay home from school as his knees are swollen so badly he cannot walk, very painful and worse than they have ever been. One doctor said it was not rheumatism or his treatment would have cured him. They did not improve under the chiropractor but the man may not have understood the case - the one treating him now thought he could draw the discharge out with needle but could not. He says it may be of tubercular origin. Please let me know what you find, also as to blood pressure and cause of thinness and spiritual and mental condition. This is his year to finish high school. Please help him do so. I will send you $6.00 on the 18th of this month. Your letter helped so much and I believe things are improving... Please pray for my boy..."



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TEXT OF READING 25-3 M 18 This psychic reading given voluntarily by Edgar Cayce at his office, 115 West 35th Street, Virginia Beach, Va., this 27th day of January, 1926, without an appointment having been made and without GC's suggestion…. [GD's note: No Check Physical suggestion was given for 25-3. It was volunteered….] 1. EC: Now, we have those conditions, as we see, in the body of [25] ..., Florida; that as, especially, regarding the condition in the limbs of the body. These should not be bound in the manner as to cause so much stress on the mental forces, as to necessitate deadening of same. These should not be drawn off (the pus or fluid from same), for this would bring the hardening of the tissue and prevent the use of the limbs later. This is not, as yet, that of a tubercular nature; rather that of the system's inability to cope with that condition in the blood that is carried to these extremities, and the eliminations being cut off by these conditions in system, as have been applied, bring the concentrated condition in these lower portions. Rather would we apply THIS to this body; removing these casts, or bandage, we would apply this: 2. First, using saturated solution of Epsom Salts, and bind this about the knee and limb, for thirty to sixty, to seventy-five, minutes - have this warm, see? Then, bathe off in tepid water, and bind about this a warm solution (thick) of Antiphlogistine Balm, and let this remain for hour to two hours. Then bathe off, and massage gently into the affected portions equal parts of Olive Oil and of Tincture of Myrrh. 3. Then, after this has been left for an hour to two hours, repeat with Salts, then with the Balm, until this condition is reduced. 4. In the meantime, taking into the system these properties: 5. To the mixture of the 6 ounces of dried Garden Sage, added to 16 ounces of distilled water, simmered, NOT BOILED, but reduced to 8 ounces, and strain. This as the base, see? Add: Tincture Valerian.............1 ounce, Extract Stillingia............1 ounce, Tincture Polk Root...........20 minims, Fluid Extract Wild Cherry.....2 ounces, Syrup of Sarsaparilla.........1 ounce, Extract Calisaya Bark.........1 ounce. 6. Shake the solution well to-gether, see. Then add 4 ounces grain alcohol, with 2 drams Balsam of Tolu cut in it. Then add this to the solution. Shake this well together each time before dose is taken, which would be two teaspoonsful four times each day, and this we find will bring about the condition necessary to relieve this body, [25]. Do that. We are through with this reading. REPORTS OF READING 25-3 M 18 R1. 3/16/26 Mother's letter to EC: "...You asked me to tell you about my son. The swelling has gone from knees, the pain not so bad, but he cannot move them. The doctor wants to stiffen them, but we do not want to cripple him hopelessly; also he says his right lung is bad. Did you find it so?..." R2. 3/20/26 Letter from EC to [25]'s mother: "...I can't understand exactly, from the information that we have gotten in the readings, as to why the doctor would want to do a thing of this kind.



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Have you been able to carry out the suggestions as were given; both application for the limbs and the medicinal properties to be taken internally? Both of these should have helped any condition that may have been classed as tubercular, either in limb or lung. However, I will add this suggestion at this time: Get this prescription filled and let your son inhale, just inhale the fumes three or four times each day. Shake the solution up well, keep it in a glass bottle with a glass stopper: Grain Alcohol...................4 ounces, Tincture Eucalyptol............20 minims, Canadian Balsam.................5 minims, Rectified Oil of Turp...........5 minims, Tincture of Tolu in solution...30 minims, Creosote, with 1/60th grain Heroin dissolved in same.....3 minims. "This is to be inhaled through the mouth into the lungs, just as he draws his breath. This will help clarify the blood, as well as the other prescription. Please let me know if you got the other prescription filled and if he has been taking it..." R3. 3/23/26 Letter from [25]'s mother: "...Thank you for advice. After the swelling and pain were reduced, I did not use salts solution and plaster. Should I have kept it up? I used the other drugs, but got out and am sending away for it to be refilled; also the one to inhale. It hurts us all so much that he cannot move his knees. Friends have prayed and prayed.... I try to leave it all with God, but how glad and thankful I would be to see him walk again..." R4. 3/30/26 EC's letter to [25]'s mother: "...My suggestion would be that you should keep up the salt solution and the plaster, alternated, as was given at the time, using the medicine; also the inhalant for this should bring relief for the body..." R5. 4/12/26 Letter from [25]'s mother: "...I did not hear from you regarding the treatment by electricity, after using the salts and antiphlogistine several days. A friend who was cured of same trouble here, begged us to try it. Am keeping up the inhaling and blood medicine..." R6. 4/15/26 EC's letter to [25]'s mother: "...I am of the opinion that the electrical treatments might be very effective, but I should think that the reading would have suggested something of the kind, had that been the best at this time. I do not blame you for taking Dr. Yates' suggestion, if he says he can cure him with this treatment. Having the sanitorium and being able to keep an hourly record of the condition, he should be able to arrive at something that would be worth-while. No, I do not think that his lung is involved, rather the system attempting to throw off the extra amount of impurities from the system..." R7. 5/5/26 Letter from [25]'s mother: "...Yours received...both medicines and applications being used. Will you please let me know if the electrical treatment will help straighten his knees? Dr. Yates of Madison, Florida says he can cure him. He has a sanitorium and years of practice. You did not say if his right lung was involved. He now raises sputum and I am badly worried. Pray for us. I often think of your saying 'God is not far from any of us'..." R8. 5/25/26 Letter from [25]'s mother: "...I am still giving my son the medicine for lungs. As soon as you can, please let me know his condition, and if there is anything I can do to hurry up the straightening and using of knee... Pray for my husband and my son. We are having dark days..." R9. 7/16/26 Letter from [25]'s mother: "...My son's shoulder has been paining him (right one) a good while. His knee is bent and cannot walk without crutches; there seems a place on inside of knee that hurts and won't straighten out; his voice is husky and has dark circles under eyes. I give the medicine for lungs and limbs. If only I knew what to do for his knee, so he could walk..."



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INDEX OF READING 25-4 M 20 Diet: Tuberculosis: Bone Par. 5, 6 Electrotherapy: Alpine Rays: Tuberculosis: Bone Par. 7 : Rino Ray: Par. 7 LOCOMOTION: IMPAIRED: RHEUMATISM RHEUMATISM TUBERCULOSIS: BONE BACKGROUND OF READING 25-4 M 20 B1. See 25-3 and Reports. TEXT OF READING 25-4 M 20 This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at his office, 115 West 35th Street, Virginia Beach, Va., this 3rd day of August, 1926, in accordance with request made by his mother, Mrs. [26]. 2. EC: Yes, we have the body here. 3. Now, there are many changes, as we see, since last we had this body. Some for the better. Some not so good. 4. The condition as is seen in the bone is of the tubercle nature, and is hard to combat with, under the stress the body has often been subjected to. 5. The keeping up of those inhalants [See 25-3 Reports.] as has been given, and of those of the applications to the limbs and knees, and various portions, will be the better conditions for the body, would they keep the eliminations going as thoroughly as is correct - that is, do not give any properties as to cause an excess of the intestinal retraction through too much accumulation of the juices, and of the exercising of the functioning of the organs and of the tissue throughout the intestinal tract, for this would only tend to weaken the condition, so as to spread this throughout the system. This should be in a place where the direct attention could be given from day to day, to bring about the permanent relief, for the change is sudden throughout the system, for the blood and the bone building structure being involved, tissue becomes easily involved, when diet is not kept perfectly balanced. 6. We would keep up, though, the rubs, keep up those inhalants, [See 25-3 Reports] and be very careful as to the diet. 7. The electrical vibration improperly given in some respects, for this has tended to excite the glands of the system, rather than subsidizing the condition in the blood. This should have been made that vibration as is seen in Rino or Alpine Ray, for this would be rather as the strainer for the blood than that of a stimulation to locomotory centers in the nerve and tissue systems, see?



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8. Keep up those as has been given. This will bring the better condition. 9. We are through for the present. REPORTS OF READING 25-4 M 20 R1. 8/15/26 Letter from [25]'s mother: "...The day after you gave reading two x-rays were taken of my son; 1 of chest and 2 of knee. The doctor said no sign of tuberculosis in lungs and none in knee only a sign of inflammation and ordered a clamp to straighten the knee. I know that you can tell just the true condition, now the doctor has gone away for 3 weeks, the nurse to give treatment (electric). Can you tell me what diet, also you have never mentioned his lungs, he has to take a long breath every now and then as if he didn't get enough air. Do x-rays deceive? I have never had experience in TB... He does not complain of knees, cannot use right one in walking... There is no swelling. Should I use Epsom salts bath or salt and vinegar as in one reading for stiffness?..." R2. 8/19/26 EC replied, giving diet suggestion, beef juice, green vegetables, etc. Salts packs once each day. R3. 8/23/26 Letter from [25]'s mother: "...Would be so glad for another reading any time except from 4 till 6 in P.M., as he will take electric treatment then. Would like to know condition of lungs, bronchial tubes, why shortness of breath, now and then if kidneys are right. Why the knee remains stiff... If possible to tell, mental and spiritual condition; he does not talk much; seems despondent; has been sick so long. If I only knew what he could do well in...now he reads current news and fiction. Will not go about since being crippled. Am giving blood medicine. Seems to have gas after meals, not much appetite...greatly appreciate your help and will pay you soon. Pray for us..." R4. 9/23/26 Letter from [25]'s mother: "...My son seems about the same. Has to clear his throat often; seems to have digestive trouble with gas on stomach, hurts right knee to try to straighten it. Shall keep up blood medicine you prescribed?... If you could tell me even what he has done or was in last appearance, would be so glad, but not if too much trouble..."



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INDEX OF READING 25-5 M 20 Attitudes & Emotions: Suffering Par. 5-A Bible: Books Of: Hebrews 5: 8 Par. 5-A Electrotherapy: Alpine Rays: Eliminations Par. 3 : Rino Ray: Par. 3 Physiotherapy: Heat: Rheumatism Par. 4-A : Massage: Salt & Vinegar, Apple: Rheumatism Par. 4-A : Packs: Salt: Par. 3 RHEUMATIC FEVER RHEUMATISM TUBERCULOSIS Will Par. 5-A TEXT OF READING 25-5 M 20 This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at his office, 115 West 35th Street, Virginia Beach, Va., this 6th day of October, 1926, in accordance with request made by his mother, Mrs. [26]. 2. EC: Yes, we have had the body here before. 3. Now, we find in the general way and manner the body is constantly on the improve, and, as we eliminate those conditions as cause the hindrances, or clogging of the system in the elimination, and in the lightening of the condition as causes the tautness in muscles and in sinew, we will find the body will continue. We should keep those properties as have been given from time to time for the body in a consistent manner. Keep up those conditions in the medicinal properties that clarify the blood forces. Keep up the packs at times, that we may eliminate those conditions as centralize about joints. Keep up those of the eliminations as will be produced by the electrical forces and by the vibratory forces in manipulation. Keeping the diet consistent with the conditions in the body. We will find these will gradually improve and bring about better conditions for this body. Do that. 4. (Q) What causes the place on inside of the knee that hurts? (A) Still the accumulation of those of that of the liquid, or of the oil that nature provides between the joints having been removed, nature has got to restore same, see? and this swelling is caused by the system attempting to adjust itself



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through normal forces being created in the system. This is rather the nature of retraction. Hence that as has been given, that occasionally hot packs, the salt and vinegar rubs, the electrical treatment, the medicinal properties, the salts packs - all of these should be used from time to time, for the variation is what will bring about the normal condition for the body, see? 5. (Q) What causes the pain in the right shoulder? (A) Same condition. Poor eliminations through the system, and the change, as it were - retractions throughout the body. Hence that as is given, that the various conditions as have been given for the relief of the bone and tissue in portions of the system be kept, see? for by keeping the blood supply, and by keeping the eliminations, and by the rebuilding as constantly goes on in the system (for the body is yet in the developing), we will develop to a normal condition and rid the system of these abnormal forces, see? for will's forces, consistent and persistent, must be kept, would the body-physical overcome that as is seen in the system - for, as has been given, well that the entity, mentally, spiritually, physically, take THIS attitude: That "Yet were He the Son, He learned obedience by the things which He suffered." 6. We are through with this reading. REPORTS OF READING 25-5 M 20 R1. 1/15/27 Letter from [25]'s mother: "...Also a life reading for my son... I will pay you soon..." R2. 5/15/27 Letter from [25]'s mother: "...Now if you can find a time...for my son. His right knee swells, his left creaks like leather, his heels hurt; how is his general condition? He takes the violet ray 3 times per week, are they helping?" R3. 11/14/30 Letter from [25]'s mother: "...[25] is well and we will never forget what you did for him..." R4. 12/29/32 Letter from [25]'s mother: "...[25] suffers with fallen arches and a pain under left shoulder..." R5. 1/16/35 Letter from [25]'s mother: "...My son...is manager of a grocery store..."



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INDEX OF READING 25-6 M 31 ASTHMA BRONCHITIS Cough: Tuberculosis Par. 7, 8, 9 Diet: Beef Juice: Tuberculosis Par. 12 : Citrus & Cereal Par. 11 : Tuberculosis Par. 10--14 Intestines: Colonics: Tuberculosis Par. 6 Osteopathy: Tuberculosis Par. 5, 6 Physiotherapy: Hydrotherapy: Tuberculosis Par. 5, 6 Prescriptions: Apple Brandy: Cough Par. 8, 9 : Chloroform: Par. 8, 9 : Honey: Par. 8, 9 : Stillingia, Tincture Of: Par. 8, 9 : Horehound, Syrup Of: Par. 8, 9 : Rhubarb, Syrup Of: Par. 8, 9 : Water: Par. 8, 9 : Wild Cherry Syrup: Par. 8, 9 Prophecy: Prognosis: Tuberculosis Par. 15 TUBERCULOSIS: TENDENCIES BACKGROUND OF READING 25-6 M 31 B1. See 25-1 through 25-5; also Background and Reports correspondence in date sequence. TEXT OF READING 25-6 M 31 This Psychic Reading given by Edgar Cayce at his home on Arctic Crescent, Virginia Beach, Va., this 14th day of April, 1938, in accordance with request made by the mother - Mrs. [26]. 1. EC: Yes. 2. Now as we find, there are great changes in the physical forces of this body since last we had same here. Some are good, some we find rather mediocre, others we find show weaknesses and inclinations in different directions.



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3. In the present we find that the weaknesses or poisons that have been a part of accumulations through the system show more in the pulmonary, the throat, bronchi and in the poor circulation. 4. Then, in making applications for this body in the present, we find: 5. About once a week we would have a thorough, general osteopathic adjustment. If this is impractical for the body, then have the hydrotherapy treatments - or the massage given at a hydrotherapy place. 6. When the osteopathic treatments are given, or the hydrotherapy treatments with the massage, be sure there is an emptying of the colon with high irrigations. 7. As a tonic, as well as an expectorant and cough syrup, to act also as an active force upon the digestive forces as well as eliminations, we would prepare a compound in this manner: 8. To 4 ounces of Water add 2 ounces of Strained Pure Honey (not synthetic honey). Let come to a boil. Skim off the refuse. Then when it is near cool, add 4 ounces of Pure Apple Brandy; NOT Apple Jack. Then, in the ORDER NAMED, add these ingredients: Syrup of Rhubarb.................1 ounce, Syrup of Horehound...............1 ounce, Tincture of Stillingia.........1/2 ounce, Syrup of Wild Cherry.........1 1/2 ounces, Chloroform......................10 minims. 9. Shake the solution well before the dose is taken. Take not by guess but by measurement; a teaspoonful every three hours when necessary. 10. In the diet beware of too much starches. No white potatoes. No white bread. 11. Do not take cereals AND citrus fruits at the same meal. Alternate these, but never take them together. 12. Take plenty of beef juice; NOT broth but pure beef juice. 13. The meats should be preferably fish, fowl and lamb. 14. Plenty of green vegetables but not cooked in fat; rather in their OWN juices. 15. Doing all of these, we will find the body gaining in weight, in strength and in resistance and vitality. We are through with this Reading. REPORTS OF READING 25-6 M 31 R1. 3/30/38 Mother's letter: "I am asking you for a prescription for bronchial trouble, also for asthma for my son, whom you treated several years ago. Had hopes to get you to give him a reading but so far the same old poverty..."

R2. 6/38 Mother's letter: "We have not been able to find the treatment for my son. Is it massaging or steam heating? Had trouble in getting cough medicine too. Have been under a great strain for some time, but will soon be able to send you some money..." R3. 5/10/43 Mother's letter: "...My son was here yesterday. He asked me to write you for a reading for him, to know if any exercises would help his stooped shoulders, and how can he gain, also if you can help his cough and head cold, now and then he has asthma or hay fever. He is manager of an A & P grocery store, so if you could give a reading at night or Sunday, please address him with enclosed envelope where he lives and send reading to me, also let me know the price, which I will send as soon as I hear."



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INDEX OF READING 218-1 M 29 Air: Oxygen: Tuberculosis Par. 8 Blood: Oxidization: Tuberculosis Par. 2 Hospitalization: Norfolk Municipal Hospital Par. B1, 11-A Inhalants: Apple Brandy Fumes: Tuberculosis Par. 5, 6, 10 : Keg, Charred: Par. 5, 6, 10 : Tolu In Solution: Par. 10 Karma: Physical: Lungs: Gas: After Effects Par. R2, R14, R22 Lungs: Gas: After Effects Par. 2, 10 Physiotherapy: Baths: Sun: Warnings: Tuberculosis Par. 8 : Packs: Fuller's Earth: Par. 6 Prescriptions: Balsam, Canadian: Tuberculosis Par. 7 : Codeine: Par. 7 : Eucalyptus, Oil Of: Par. 7 : Turp, Rectified Oil: Par. 7 Prophecy: Prognosis: Tuberculosis Par. 1, 3, 10, 12-A, 14-A TUBERCULOSIS Work: E.C.: Formulas: Apple Brandy Substitute Par. 5, 6 : Groups: Prayer Par. R12, R14 BACKGROUND OF READING 218-1 M 29 B1. 7/9/30 He wrote: "I have heard so much of the marvelous work you are doing for mankind that I just had to write to you. I am a young man who has been confined to bed for almost five years with tuberculosis, but at the present time I am doing very well. Miss [307] told me of you and your wonderful work... I am at the Municipal Hospital, over on the tuberculosis pavilion. I am not taking any treatments under my doctor, but I would be willing to put myself in your care. I can not afford to go to your hospital, nor can I really afford to pay any large bill for a reading." B2. 8/25/30 He wrote: "Of course treatment of any kind can not be given out here, but I fully believe that a place will be found where I can follow your every suggestion... Fortunately, at present, I do not have any cough whatsoever, but my lung condition has been considered serious since 1925."



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TEXT OF READING 218-1 M 29 This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at his office, 115 West 35th Street, Virginia Beach, Va., this 9th day of September, 1930, in accordance with request made by self - Mr. [218], through Miss [307]. 1. EC: Yes, we have the body, [218]. Now, we find there are conditions as may be aided and changes made, that the forces as have been destructive in the system may be so changed as to PRODUCE that of a replenishing to the point where the body may be rid, at LEAST in part, of that as destroys vitality and the strength, and to be able to meet many of the conditions as would have to do with labors, work, or outside influences. 2. The conditions, as we find, are produced from that as was inhaled into the lungs in gas, and with the vitality being lowered, this has - in its activity - not solidified, or destroyed entirely the lungs proper, but it prevents the reaction of the blood supply through the system in a manner as to give sufficient of the oxygen in system, and through the blood supply, as to build PROPERLY that as is needed as strength or as vitality in system. 3. In meeting, then, these conditions - these, as we find, would enable this to be so changed, as that those conditions in the lung would not be of the NATURE IN their activity as is seen in the present; for, as may be seen from those administrations, the properties of medicinal nature would work with the replenishing system in a manner as that every portion of the lung area, as may be used in its activity, will be so clarified, so cleansed, as to make use of same to the resuscitation of the body itself. 4. In the characters of the blood, externally, these are entirely altered in the present, and necessarily so to meet conditions under which the body-physical labors. This, as we find, will make for bettered conditions and a usefulness for the body-physical in EVERY manner. 5. We would first prepare as this: We would take one-half bushel of apples. Reduce same to pulp, grinding. Place in a charred container that may be closed entirely, see? and the container should be at least twice as large as the quantity, when pulped. Keep this corked tight, yet keep where the activity of the action through which these will take place will create in the vacuum above same that activity of the fumes or gases from same. At least twice each day, after these have stood for three days, inhale into the lungs the gas only as comes from this fermentation in the charred container, see? [Charred oak keg? Apple Brandy?] 6. During the period this is being inhaled, remove shoes and covering from feet - and cover feet with FULLER'S earth, that there may be that full activity, with the inhalation, of the system receiving the vitality throughout as may be gained from same. Remember: Man's fall was eating an apple. He may be resuscitated through same, properly used. [Gen. 3: 12] 7. In the medicinal properties taken, prepare as this; only using or making at one time three of the capsules. Place the liquid, though, in the capsule - this in each capsule: Oil of Eucalyptus.................1 minim, Rectified Oil of Turp................1/2 minim, Canadian Balsam..................1 minim, Codeine.............................1/20 grain.



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These will be taken one each evening, as the body rests. 8. Keep in the air as much as possible. Do not allow the GLARE of sunshine too MUCH on the body, but indirect rays are much preferable - even in the evenings, when there are dry days - or damp days - let the REFLECTED light, or the outdoors, be the PREFERABLE light for the body. 9. The diet - we would not alter or change. 10. Occasionally there will be found that, from the inhalation - as the fermentation progresses - there will be a residue, or a tendency to cough, or to expectorate. When this begins, use the inhalant as carries the alcohol with those of the extra amount of the Tolu in solution [538-18?]. These have been given as to their proportion. With the use of these, we will find that the body will respond - if these will be taken in their proper attitude, proper precautions, as to the activities. STRENGTH will be gained, and the clarification in lungs - from the mustard gas and from chlorine - will be changed. Ready for questions. [See 281-6, Par. 21-A, 22-A on 5/12/32 and 218-1 Reports or notations.] 11. (Q) Where can the body go to get this treatment? (A) This will be a change from his present surroundings! but BEST to go to some farm home. 12. (Q) How long before he can see improvement? (A) In the strength and vitality, we will see improvement in the third week. In the second YEAR, almost back to normalcy - in STRENGTH; though endurance, of course, will be retarded. 13. (Q) How long should the treatment be kept up? (A) As long as necessary! 14. (Q) Will he be able to work during the two years? (A) Latter part of the second year, yes. 15. We are through for the present. REPORTS OF READING 218-1 M 29 R1. 9/20/30 He wrote: "Your rdg. made me very happy... It was splendid of you to give me the rdg., and sometime soon I hope to be able to give you assurance that it will be carried out to the letter." R2. 11/18/30 He obtained 218-2, advising that he need not go to Denver Home for Tuberculars (as had been proposed) but could follow the treatment in Va. When asked how he became gassed, the answer came "By the inhalation of the gasses!" R3. 11/22/30 He wrote: "Thank you so much for the ck. rdg. which I rec'd yesterday. I have forwarded it on to Mr. [257] so that he could see the answers to the questions he wanted to know. [218-2] "Perhaps it will be possible to follow your suggestions real soon." R4. 12/2/30 Miss [307] wrote: "Mr. [218] left for N.Y. City Tuesday night. Mr. [257] asked me to get him off and then wire him. He has been wonderful to that stranger. I knew he was a splendid man but I never dreamed that he was so



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considerate of everybody." [GD's note: We wondered at the time how Mr. [257] and Miss [307] could feel that they were following the rdg. for Mr. [218] simply by shipping him from one tubercular hospital in Va. to another one in Colorado.] R5. 12/23/30 Mr. [257]'s letter: "[218] whom I felt, once I had become interested in his case, I could not turn down - so far he has cost me several hundred dollars and it means that I, no doubt, will have to help him while he is in Colorado, but I am following the reading on that. [!!]" R6. 1/3/31 Mr. [218] wrote: "I have thought of you many, many times since I have been out here, and how nice you were to me. The West is truly golden and glorious and I like it tremendously. There are 250 patients, about, in this institution, and we are located only 5 miles from Denver, in the heart of the 'Rockies.' I saw Mr. [257] when I came through N.Y. City and he spoke in very laudatory terms of you. Mr. [257] is one of the finest men that I have ever met and he has been just like an older brother to me. After I cultivate the physician here for a while, Mr. [257] wants me to ask him about letting me carry out your physical suggestions. I am real anxious to do so, Mr. Cayce, and I have the greatest confidence in you and your wonderful work to help others regain their good health." R7. 1/8/31 EC's letter: "One man [Mr. [4874]], for whom we gave information some yrs. ago was in Colorado, close to Lookout Mountain resort, I believe. He had some trouble in getting his treatment followed. However, he changed from there and has been getting along wonderfully well for the last twelve months." R8. 5/9/31 Mr. [218] wrote: "Being placed in the position I am, it is rather difficult to carry out your suggestions. Perhaps Mr. [257] will see to that later. He's a mighty fine man, indeed, and has great confidence in you." R9. 6/5/31: "I am feeling about the same as I did when I left Norfolk, which you so ably described in your last rdg. for me... I am confident that by following your rdg. I would feel like a new man in 18-20 months, but it's impossible to do so in this and, I'm afraid, any other institution of this kind." R10. 6/25/31 Miss [307] wrote: "Mr. [257] requested the rdgs. and then has seemed to forget them. I am sure he will do the right thing, however, when he comes around to it. Mr. [218] wrote me he wished to remain out there and could get board very reasonable in a private home, if only Mr. [257] would agree to help him. He did not want a gift, only a loan until he could work." R11. 9/20/31 He, Mr. [218], wrote: "As yet, I'm not allowed any exercise whatsoever and am urged to remain in bed all of the time except for meals, but I feel pretty good. There has been a continued loss of weight, too, but I do not feel any the worse for that, however."



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R12. 10/12/31 EC wrote that the A.R.E. Prayer Group had put his name on their prayer list. R13. 3/1/32 Mr. [218] wrote: "I had a very bad case of the influenza recently which left me very weak, but I am gradually getting over it now." R14. 5/12/32 See A.R.E. Prayer Group Rdg. 281-6, Par. 21-A giving the reason that [218] had been prevented from carrying out his rdg. 218-1: See 281-6, Par. 21-A: That as has been builded must be met every whit, until there is the whole trust of self in that that makes the law of recompense, or of karma, of none effect. It's in him! 22. (Q) Where was he gassed? [See 218-2, Par. 4-A.] (A) In his labors in the last association. R15. 8/5/32 Mr. [218] wrote Miss [307]: "I have already left the J.C.R.S. I was treated very ugly and nasty because I could not make my exit when they wished me to do so. A very blunt and curt note from the Medical Director in which he told me that under any and all circumstances I would have to leave Aug. 1st. I have been patiently waiting for transportation back to Norfolk for quite some time and but for the fact that the young man who has been a patient at the J.C.R.S. too, out of the goodness of his heart, took me in, I would probably be out in the street. I promised to pay him for my board as he has a time of it to make both ends meet. Here I am, in a strange city over 2000 miles away from home and more or less stranded. I have many, many things to tell you when I see you again." R16. 8/12/32 Miss [307] wrote EC: "I am enclosing Mr. [218]'s letter, not to add to your already heavy list of people who bring their cares to you for advice on, but to let you see just how the 'land lies' with this unfortunate one. I am certainly at my wit's end." R17. 12/20/32 Mr. [218] wrote EC: "I am back in Norfolk and want very badly to run out to see you after the holidays, if I may. It is only proper for me to greet you and thank you for your many kindnesses and Christlike deeds, during the Christmas holidays." R18. 2/10/33 Mr. [257] wrote: "Mrs. [296] has tremendous and wealthy connections. She is an official of the home in Denver who took care of [218]." R19. 3/18/41 Mr. [257]'s letter to EC: "Will you be good enough to find out from Miss [307] the address of Mr. [218] who has had T.B. for so many years? I want to contact him, and I have lost his address." R20. 4/5/41 HLC's letter: "Mr. [218] is in the Grandy Sanatorium in Norfolk and I understand he is very ill."



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R21. 7/30/47 Miss [307]'s sister, Mrs. [303] reported: "Mr. [218] is still living. He married a nurse and moved out West sometime ago, Arizona, I think." R22. 10/27/70 GD's note: Webster's Dictionary says: MUSTARD GAS - Chemical. An oily liquid [ClCH(2)CH(2)(2)S], used as a shell filling in the World War because of its violent irritant and blistering properties. Could it be, according to 218-1, Par. 1, 2, 8, and 218-2, Par. 5-A and Rdg. 281-6, Par. 21-A, 22-A, that the entity [218] lived in the late 1800's and took part in the experiments which led to the use of mustard gas in World War I as a shell filler? Interesting!



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INDEX OF READING 218-2 M 29

Environment: Climate: Tuberculosis Par. 3-A, 4-A

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Work: E.C.: Readings: Physical: Not Followed Par. 1, 2-A--4-A BACKGROUND OF READING 218-2 M 29 B1. 9/9/30 He obtained 218-1 for tuberculosis which he had suffered since 1925, bedridden and in serious condition. B2. 11/6/30 He wrote: "I have been patiently waiting and biding my time to carry out your physical suggestions. I sent your rdg. to Mr. [257] who has found a country home for me in Denver, Colorado [Denver Home for Tuberculars], where I can have all the advantages you wished me to have. I would be ever grateful to you if you can arrange to give me a ck. rdg. so that we can get started on this proposition at once if it should come out favorably in the rdg. Mr. [257] and I are leaving it entirely to your ck. rdg." TEXT OF READING 218-2 M 29 This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at his office, 115 West 35th Street, Virginia Beach, Va., this 18th day of November, 1930. 1. EC: Yes, we have the body, [218] - this we have had before. No immediate change from that as we have had. Some days better and some days not feeling so good. Lately there have been some feelings in lower limbs of disorders. We do not find that applied as has been outlined. We would do that. Ready for questions. 2. (Q) Should any treatment be taken in Virginia before going West? (A) All of it may be taken in Virginia if so desired, or preparations - or those surroundings made for same as has been outlined. [See 218-1] 3. (Q) When should body go West? (A) When it so desires. 4. (Q) Should there be any change in treatment upon arrival there? (A) That as has been outlined, as we find, would be the better under any climatic conditions, or under any conditions for this body, for that existent condition in system. 5. (Q) How did he become gassed? [218-1] (A) By the inhalation for the gasses! 6. We are through with this reading. REPORTS OF READING 218-2 M 29 R1. See subsequent notations under 218-1 Reports.



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INDEX OF READING 230-1 M 25 Air: Oxygen: Tuberculosis Par. 4 Bible: Books Of: Luke 11: 17 Par. 2 : Mark 3: 24--25 Par. 2 : Matthew 12: 25 Par. 2 Clairvoyance Of E.C.: Conditions Confirmed Par. R1 Cycles: Body Par. 2 Diet: Tuberculosis Par. 8, 13 Electrotherapy: Infra-Red: Tuberculosis Par. 10 : Red Ray: Par. 10 : Ultra-Violet Light: Par. 10 Environment: Texas: San Antonio Par. 4, 11 Inhalants: Alcohol, Grain: Tuberculosis Par. 4, 5, 6, R2, R4 : Balsam, Canadian: Par. 4, 5, 6, R2, R4 : Creosote, Rectified: Par. 4, 5, 6, R2, R4 : Eucalyptol: Par. 4, 5, 6, R2, R4 : Heroin: Par. 4, 5, 6, R2, R4 : Tolu, In Solution: Par. 4, 5, 6, R2, R4 : Turp, Rectified Oil Of: Par. 4, 5, 6, R2, R4 Liver: Kidneys: Tuberculosis Par. 3 Physiology & Anatomy: Liver: Kidneys Par. 3 : Tuberculosis Par. 2 Prescriptions: Codliver Oil: Tuberculosis Par. 7 : Spirits Frumenti: Par. 13 : Water, Lithia: Par. 12 Prophecy: Prognosis: Tuberculosis Par. 11 Rest: Tuberculosis Par. 4 TUBERCULOSIS Universe: Body: Cells Par. 2



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BACKGROUND OF READING 230-1 M 25 B1. 11/14/27 He wrote: "I have just been informed of the great help you have been to one of my kinsfolk in ..., Ky. and am very desirous of obtaining a reading from you as soon as possible." B2. 11/25/27 He wrote: "I rec'd your application blank this a.m. and am returning it immediately with check for $20. I have been down now for two and one-half years and in the past few days have taken a turn for the worse. My family is contemplating on moving me to Texas in about two weeks. Would it be possible for you to give me a reading before that time? I have always been Christian and believe you can give me treatment that will make me well." [Tuberculosis?] B3. 11/29/27 His mother wrote: "Do please hurry his date for the reading, as he is not feeling so well and is very anxious to hear from you; he thinks you can do him good, and we are praying you can." TEXT OF READING 230-1 M 25 This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at his office, 115 West 35th Street, Virginia Beach, Va., this 21st day of December, 1927. 2. EC: Yes. Now, we find there are those conditions in the physical forces of this body that cause disturbances. Many of these may be corrected and the body brought nearer to a normal manner of functioning. Not that tissue once destroyed may be made anew, save by ridding the system by the renewal of conditions that create or build new forces in the body; for we find that the body as a unit, or as a whole, is made up of innumerable bodies, each a whole universe within itself, and when there enters any condition wherein cells or units become destructive within or among their own selves - that as has been given, "A house divided against itself will not stand." Hence there becomes - under such conditions and circumstances - the necessity of adding in this or that form to meet the needs of the conditions producing same, that which will create that combative element, not only sufficient to destroy or to allay that producing destruction, but that which will assist same in being eliminated entirely from the system, or sufficient resistive forces within the body that in the cycle of change as comes about with each human anatomical force, there may be rebuilded that proper condition to carry on within the whole body that necessary force for the replenishing throughout. 3. Now, in this body here, [230], we find such destructive forces have entered in. These come as a result of scar tissue being produced within the system without the proper condition being regulated in the blood supply for the perfect coagulation to take place. These units, then, of energy, within themselves, or cell force as find lodgement within and upon the system, bring about such destructive forces as to give to the system that inability of the reserve forces, or reserve energy being sufficient to meet the needs of the condition. This is exhibited in the blood stream itself, shown in condition in throat, lungs and respiratory system, as well as that which must be looked after the more - the kidneys and the liver, for THESE also, in their functioning of ridding the system of used matter, must be able to supply - especially through the rebuilding or replenishing



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forces as necessary to the system, by the blood stream and by the assimilation of food and properties taken into the system - add that sufficient to rebuild or replenish nerve, muscular tissue, organ tissue, semen tissue, in the faction through which all glands, all of the anatomical forces of body, function. Hence as a debilitation through that of the gradual consumption of conditions that rebuild, it weakens, depletes, the whole system. All organs are involved, then, to that condition wherein all suffer; though not necessarily organically deranged. Here, too, again we find that element of condition entering in wherein there is seen the difference, or differentiation as may be seen in minutia, or the replenishing forces of the body. The desire, that necessary for reproduction within the anatomical forces of the body, is above the ordinary under such condition. That ability to propagate within itself, that of replenishing or adding to its OWN body, is depleted. See? Hence there is seen how that the organisms of the body are as a unit involved one within the other, yet there may be set up within the system such of the forces that tissue, blood, nerve and all replenishing of within self are at such a state as not to be able to add to itself to keep resuscitation within its own functioning. 4. Now, to meet the needs of the conditions of this body: It is well that the changes have come about in environment; for the pressure in that of air, the changes as seen of the forces as bring about the change in diet are well; yet these will not replenish wholly without considerable thought, or considerable action being taken towards giving sufficient into the system, not only of replenishing but of being able to remove that used by the system, in ADDING materials for rebuilding. Hence we will find, plenty of open air well for the body. Not too much physical exertion. Rest - and that taken as an inhalant, to add to the resistance and to act as the cleanser for the system, properties as will be found in this: 5. Put in a twelve (12) ounce glass container with glass stopper, six (6) ounces of pure grain alcohol. To this add: Eucalpytol (or oil of same)......40 minims, Creosote, Rectified...........10 minims, Rectified Oil of Turp............20 minims, Canadian Balsam..................10 minims, Tolu in solution................100 minims, Heroin..........................1/4 grain, as prepared hypodermically (that is, for hypodermical use), crushed and put in solution, which will dissolve in same. 6. Use this only as an inhalant, inhaling the gas as formed by shaking solution together, inhaling through the nostrils and through the mouth, at least four to five (4 to 5) times each day, see? 7. Take as much codliver oil as the body can assimilate. 8. Of meats, let the diet be principally that of calf's liver, chicken, turkey, or any fowl - the liver of same; this not cooked too done, but sufficient that all the life, as animal life, is taken from same, see? Vegetables in the form of all those that grow under the ground; as carrots, salsify, potatoes of all kinds. Do not prepare these, however, ever with grease. Neither eat grease WITH same, save of butterfat. 9. Keep the body free from excessive heat or excessive cold.



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10. Occasionally well that the electric vibration either from ultra Violet or the ultra Red Ray, or Infra-Red, be applied along the whole length of the spine. 11. Do that, and we will find in from six to ten (6 to 10) MONTHS, the body would be entirely free from these conditions. May be necessary for change from the present location. This, however, would depend upon whether these may be applied or not. If these were applied here as given, in these places, be well. 12. Lithia water, or a little lithia water, is well for the body occasionally. Not too much, but this - the water - should carry lithia at times. 13. Eggs are very good if taken raw, though if they do not agree with body, Spirits Frumenti may be used with same, provided the alcohol is burned from same before it is given to the body - but that of grain fermentation is well for the body. We are through for the present. REPORTS OF READING 230-1 M 25 R1. 12/28/27 He wrote: "I have rec'd your rdg. given on Dec. 21st and appreciate it very much. I am returning enclosed the form you sent me to be returned. My mother is with me, here in San Antonio, and we are going to do everything possible to carry out your suggestions. I have been unable to get the prescription filled. Heroin is said to be off the market and not allowed to be prescribed. I then tried to get it filled without the heroin and was told that they could not make any mixture containing alcohol (grain) unless it contained some poison such as Bichloride Mercury - or pure alcohol alone given on only a government blank by an M.D. I do not have a doctor who would prescribe me 6 oz. grain alcohol, hence I am unable to get it filled... "I would appreciate it very much if you could get this prescription filled for me and give me the desired information, as it is absolutely impossible to get any cooperation from the medical profession here." R2. 12/28/27 Form C ret'd: "In so far as I am able to learn, this rdg. fits my condition. My condition is tuberculosis, with extensive lesions confined to the left side. My case diagnosed two years ago was then considered 'far advanced.' I intend to carry out every suggestion made as near as possible." R3. 1/20/28 EC wrote: "I think the doctor we hope to have associated with our work [Thomas B. House, M.D., D.O.] will be here next month. As soon as he comes, I want to get in touch with you again - then we will take another rdg. (if you like), check up on the progress of the condition and then be able to supply whatever you desire to use yourself." R4. 4/25/28 He wrote EC: "I have been intending to write you for the past 2-3 weeks in reference to another rdg... I have conformed as nearly as possible to your instruction and believe that I have made improvement although I could never get the prescription filled as given in your rdg. I moved to El Paso one month ago and intend to stay here permanently. I am very much interested in having you give me another rdg. of my condition at your earliest possible convenience. If in the rdg. any prescription is given, I would appreciate it if you would have the Ass'n M.D. prescribe and have same compounded and sent to me parcel post c.o.d. It is absolutely impossible in this country to get any cooperation from the medical profession. Please advise if there is any additional chg. for the rdg."



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INDEX OF READING 230-2 M 25 Air: Oxygen: Tuberculosis Par. 9-A Diet: Tuberculosis Par. 9-A, 10-A, 12-A Environment: Climate: Tuberculosis Par. 2, 4, 9-A : Kentucky Par. 12-A : Locality: Change Par. 4, 8-A, 9-A : Texas: El Paso Par. 2, 4, 12-A Exercise: Walking: Not Recommended Par. 7-A Inhalants: Alcohol, Grain: Tuberculosis Par. 4, 5 : Balsam, Canadian: Par. 4, 5 : Benzoin: Par. 4, 5 : Benzosol: Par. 4, 5 : Eucalyptol: Par. 4, 5 : Tolu In Solution: Par. 4, 5 : Turp, Rectified Oil Of: Par. 4, 5 Prophecy: Prognosis: Withheld Par. 11-A Rest: Tuberculosis Par. 7-A, 12-A TUBERCULOSIS BACKGROUND OF READING 230-2 M 25 B1. 12/21/27 He obtained 230-1 for tuberculosis. B2. 4/25/28 He wrote requesting a ck. physical, since he had not been able to get the prescription filled as given in 230-1. B3. 5/11/28 He submitted questions, including: "Is my condition such that when cured will not return under a normal life? How long will it be before I am safe in doing 3-4 hours light work in the mornings? Two yrs. ago I had terrible hemorrhages. Is it probable that I will never have a recurrence of hemorrhages? What is the difference in effect of the climates of Ky. and El Paso, Tex. on my condition?" [He indicated that he was living in a convalescent home in El Paso.] TEXT OF READING 230-2 M 25 This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at his office, 115 West 35th Street, Virginia Beach, Va., this 18th day of May, 1928. 1. EC: Yes, we have the body here - this we have had before.



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2. Now in many ways conditions may be considered improved; in others not so good. The change in climatic, atmospheric, conditions - it is true - has tended to bring changes for the body, and improvement is felt; yet the general condition is at a very high pitch, and little has been done to prevent the body from being still as much under the influence of the bacilli, as causes destructive forces in the body, as has been before. Merely been put in abeyance. 3. Those suggestions as were given [in 230-1] for the body to use were as properties that were not so much of curative power as to prevent the spread of conditions in the system, see? adding to the vitality of the tissue that is attacked by such conditions, so that the resistance is increased. 4. WE would prepare, then, as this for the inhalant that will effectually block and cleanse the throat, bronchial and lungs in such a way as to prevent the tubercle from spreading. Not sufficient care has been taken here as respecting the kidneys and the action as is being brought about by the diet as is being given. The rest, the climatic conditions are right - very good, but the others - not so well! For the inhalant, use as this proportion: To four (4) ounces of pure grain alcohol, add: Eucalypto1..........................20 minims, Benzosol............................10 minims, Benzoin............................ 5 minims, Rectified Oil of Turp...............15 minims, Canadian Balsam......................5 minims, Tolu in solution....................40 minims. 5. Keep solution in glass corked container at least twice the size of the quantity. Only shake solution together when to be used. Inhale into nostril and throat at least four to five times each day - deep inhalations into the lungs, see? Do that. Ready for questions. [see last page of this file for an illustration] 6. (Q) To what extent are my lungs involved with Tuberculosis? (A) Considerable area, and this has not been checked in a substantial manner as it should, under the conditions in which it has existed, either! 7. (Q) How much exercise (walking) can I stand without harm at the present time? (A) The least exercise taken at the present time, until there is more blocking, or more change in the system, the BETTER it will be. 8. (Q) Will my symptoms eventually disappear and I be able to lead a normal life and work 6 or 8 hours per day? (A) That depends upon the conditions and how the developments go on. Were the proper administrations for the body - - This isn't a good place for this body! This isn't a good surroundings! 9. (Q) What surroundings would be better? (A) Any place away from such action and such attention as given here. This is bad! Better be out in the open. The diet must be looked after, of course, as has been given, and - as is seen - necessary that a change of the climatic conditions, as given, from that under which we find the body, before it's better. Those SURROUNDING conditions are NOT GOOD! 10. (Q) What should the diet be for the body at the present time? (A) This has been outlined for the body - and you wouldn't get it changed, if you would change it!



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11. (Q) Is my condition such that when cured will not return under a normal life? (A) That cannot be given. 12. (Q) What is the difference in effect of the climates of Kentucky and El Paso, Texas, on my condition? (A) Too numerous to be mentioned, as to what's the difference in this. Common judgement in these should tell anyone what's the difference in these. One's a dry, arid; the other wet and cold. Climate is bad in the one; very good in the other for such conditions. Yet were the condition entirely sealed and cleansed, or blocked in such a way and manner as to prevent any tubercle from breaking, no reason why the body should not return to the normal life. But changing is always very doubtful. Rest and rough diet, with that that will prevent re-infection in the system, will come nearer blocking the conditions, like as has been given, see? 13. We are through for the present. REPORTS OF READING 230-2 M 25 R1. 10/8/70 GD's note: No further communication from him is in the A.R.E. files.



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INDEX OF READING 418-1 F 22 Air: Oxygen: Tuberculosis Par. 14, 32-A ANEMIA Diet: Tuberculosis Par. 14--17, 32-A Electrotherapy: Violet Ray: Tuberculosis Par. 16, 32-A Eliminations: Incoordination: Tuberculosis Par. 10 Inhalants: Alcohol, Grain: Tuberculosis Par. 20--22 : Apple Brandy Fumes: Par. 17 : Benzoin, Tincture of: Par. 20--22 : Codeine: Par. 20--22 : Creosote, Rectified: Par. 20--22 : Eucalyptol: Par. 20--22 : Keg, Charred: Par. 17 : Tolu in Solution: Par. 20--22 : Turp, Rectified Oil of: Par. 20--22 Neuropathy: Tuberculosis Par. 28 Prescriptions: Ash: Animated: Tuberculosis Par. 15, 16, 32-A : Olive Oil: Par. 18 Prophecy: Prognosis: Tuberculosis Par. 27 TUBERCULOSIS BACKGROUND OF READING 418-1 F 22 B1. 10/8/33 Miss [243]'s letter: "Mrs. [418] is very sick and affected very much like [421]. She couldn't talk without crying." B2. 10/9/33 Sister's letter: "[418] is confined to her bed. Nothing seems to do her any good. Her husband encloses check. Will you please give her a rdg?" [GD's note: We understood that it was a case of tuberculosis. She had a baby son.] TEXT OF READING 418-1 F 22 This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at his home on Arctic Crescent, Va. Beach, Va., this 11th day of October, 1933.

1. EC: Yes, we have the body here, Mrs. [418]. 2. Now, as we find, there are specific conditions that disturb the better physical functioning of the body. And with the effects of these disturbances there are other distresses at times, more or less of a varied nature.



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3. These, as we find, deal with the circulation, the inability of proper digestion, hindrances in the activity of the hepatic circulation, and the specific condition in the pulmonaries and their activity. 4. These, then, are the conditions as we find them with this body, Mrs. [418] we are speaking of: 5. The BLOOD SUPPLY shows a disturbance in the clarification of the blood stream, the weakness and the lack of the proper numbers of the red blood cells, with a deficiency in the leukocyte in the white blood of the body. 6. As to the NERVE SYSTEM, with the manner in which these conditions have been met in producing or forcing rest in the body, there is the tendency of a relaxed body. But the deficiency in resistance in the vitality of the system produces a tendency for the body to become, in a manner, hysterical as to its condition. And the general environs make for this tendency also. 7. In the ORGANS of the body there is the tendency for less fats in the system, and the irritation in the throat and bronchi is of such nature - not only from the coughing that comes at spasmodic times from cold or congestion, but from the breaking of cellular forces in the lungs themselves - as to make for irritations to the whole system; and draws upon the vitality through the great amount of the plasm in the lymph circulation that is required (through these irritations) for the production of temperature in the system. 8. We find in the lungs proper the indications of spots where the tubercle has become imbedded in the tissue itself, and where some has closed; yet these continue to be more or less active in the reduction of the vitality of the system. And, as there is a lack of the leucocyte to combat these or to encircle these, THIS draws upon the system and produces irritation. 9. The digestive system we find weak, and there is a lack of sufficient amount of digestive fluids to create vital forces for the resistance in the system. 10. These, then, tend to make a slowness or coldness in the liver activity. Hence we have at times periods when there is the suffering from constipation, and at others there is easily produced an irritation that tends to make too great an activity of the muco-membrane activity without digestive forces being carried on properly; throwing a burden at such times upon the kidneys. 11. The general condition, then, is in the stages of inflammation produced by the disturbances that we have indicated in the body. 12. In meeting the needs of the conditions as we find them with this body, Mrs. [418] we are speaking of, we would continue for the time much of the same manner of rest for the body. 13. We would change very much the manner of administrations for the body. 14. We would keep more air, or more in the open air, for the rest periods of the body. Not so much that the currents of air blow upon the body, but that there is sufficient of the normal oxygens for the system. 15. Also we would obtain the animated or carbon ash in quarter grain quantities. Divide each quarter grain quantity into four doses, see? and take two doses in one day, one in the morning and one in the afternoon or evening (which would make one-eighth grain to be taken during one day, see?).



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16. After the evening dose of the ash, give a treatment with the violet ray over the area of the lungs; as in the portion across and just below the shoulder points, see, for about three to five minutes. 17. We would also inhale the gas formation from pure apple brandy. Do not take the brandy internally, but: Put a half to a gallon of the apple brandy in at least a gallon and a half or two gallon charred container, letting the container sit near fire or heat in such a manner that the gas may form or that there may be evaporation (not boiling it or anything of the kind, but just keep it in a warm place where the evaporation may take place in the container). The fumes that form from such in the keg container should be INHALED INTO THE LUNGS much in the manner as cigarette smoke is inhaled. In the beginning one or two inhalations would be sufficient, for more than that would produce a tendency for strangulation or irritation such as to produce coughing, see? but use this once or twice each day. 18. Also we would begin with taking all the olive oil the body will assimilate, in VERY small doses. A quarter of a teaspoonful three or four times each day will be much better than a spoonful once or even twice a day, see? 19. The body needs to ASSIMILATE same, so that the gastric forces of the stomach, the digestive system, the muco-membranes of the throat and all, are in accord with such vibrations as this character of oil produces for the digestive system. 20. Prepare also an inhalant in this manner: To 4 ounces of pure grain alcohol, add: Eucalyptol.....................20 minims, Rectified Oil of Turp...........5 minims, Tincture of Benzoin............10 minims, Rectified Creosote..............3 minims, Tolu in solution...............30 minims, Codeine (mashed up, so that it may be dissolved in the solution).............1/60 grain. Keep this in a container at least a six to an eight ounce container, that may be well corked, especially - or preferably - with a glass cork. 21. When ready to be inhaled in the nostril and in or through the throat or in the mouth, shake the solution before removing the cork; then inhale deep into the lungs once or twice, just the fumes that come off of same, through the nostrils, for the muco-membranes. 22. These ingredients are only antiseptic in their activity, see? 23. As to the matter of diet: Take all the fats the body will assimilate, and especially beef juice and the fats as from cereals; and grapefruit (more than oranges), grapefruit juices, and such like. 24. Vegetables should be taken too, but should be more of the leafy than the bulbular or tuberous nature. 25. Take all the milk that the body can well assimilate. 26. This means, of course, that all these foods should be taken rather often but small quantities at the time. 27. Do this, and we will find in three to four months an elimination of all these distressing conditions in the body at the present. 28. When the body begins to show improvement, it would be well that a massage be given of a neuropathic nature; that is, begin at the tip of the fingers and work towards the body, see, down to the waist, massaging or following the nerves all



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along. Then begin at the tip of the toes and work towards the central portion of the body, see? Then in the front portion of the body, or massaging the stomach and abdomen, portions of the torso itself; begin at the CENTRAL portion and work towards the ends or towards the extremities of the body, see? This is to change the circulation as in relation to those portions from which the impulses arise along the cerebro-spinal system, and the return circulation as from central portion of the body to the extremities. 29. It should require from thirty to forty minutes to give such a treatment, though these should not begin until two or three weeks after the whole treatment here outlined is begun. 30. Do these, and we will eliminate the conditions. 31. Ready for questions. 32. (Q) For how long a period should the same amount of rest be taken that is being taken now? (A) For three to four weeks longer. Then do not be in the night air, but walk - slowly; rest in the sun and in the air a great deal. The violet ray, as given, is to be used for three to five minutes after the second dose of the ash is taken each day. Of course, the diet should be changed or altered; as should be the milk with the egg, and at times there may be added a little stimulant of spirits frumenti to the egg and milk. There should be a constant feeding, almost; but do not overload the system at any one time. Just every hour feed it something! We are through for the present. REPORTS OF READING 418-1 F 22 R1. 10/22/33 Miss [243]'s letter: "They seem so grateful and are so hopeful now. The doctors had just given up." R2. 10/23/33 Husband's letter: "We are carrying out the suggestions you gave us fully. Miss [243] outlined the diet for us and we are strictly going by it. She is constipated and we had to move her bowels with water yesterday morning. She felt better after we did that, but last night she could not sleep any. I think it must be her nerves; when she gets that way it seems to tear up her stomach or kind of make her sick. We will be very glad for you to make a ck. rdg. when you get ready." R3. 11/17/33 Husband's letter: "She is still bothered with constipation. Her temperature runs along every morning about 96 or 97, sometimes it might be 98. Then at night it is 98 to 99 and nearly 100. She rests very well at night, except she can't rest very well on her left side - her lung seems like it is affected mostly on that side. Sometimes she has a little rattling when she breathes. Her cough is better, I think, since we started using the glass tubes in the charred keg container. She says that makes her lung feel better. Mr. Cayce, we would like to have a ck. rdg., but I haven't any work right now and don't have the money... She is not sitting up any, only when she takes her bath. I haven't been rubbing or massaging her but 3-4 nights - that seems to make her not feel so tired, and she sleeps good." R4. 12/12/33 See 418-2.



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INDEX OF READING 418-2 F 22 Air: Oxygen: Tuberculosis Par. 5 Constipation: Acidity Par. 13-A DEBILITATION: GENERAL Diet: Acidity & Alkalinity: Debilitation: General Par. 7, 13-A, 14-A : Beef Juice: Par. 14-A : Citrus & Cereal Par. 14-A : Menu: Tuberculosis Par. 14-A Electrotherapy: Violet Ray: Tuberculosis Par. 12-A Exercise: Debilitation: General Par. 3 Feet: Warm: Tuberculosis Par. 6 Physiotherapy: Massage: Coffee Grounds: Tuberculosis Par. 6 Prescriptions: Olive Oil: Debilitation: General Par. 13-A Rest: Position: Tuberculosis Par. 11-A Temperature: Fever: Tuberculosis Par. 10-A TUBERCULOSIS BACKGROUND OF READING 418-2 F 22 B1. See 418-1 on 10/11/33 for advanced case of tuberculosis. TEXT OF READING 418-2 F 22 This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at his home on Arctic Crescent, Virginia Beach, Virginia, this 12th day of December, 1933, in accordance with request made by self, through her husband. 2. As we find, the conditions show an improvement and much nearer the normal aspects of reactions through the system. While the activative forces from the conditions that have caused distress through the lung are not entirely encased, they are not active; and the weakened condition is the result rather of the depleted system and the inability heretofore for the body to build resistance in the system.



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3. We would begin now with more activity; not that the body should begin with heavy labors or even with the whole household duties, but rather that there should be more active forces of the physical body to assist in giving more strength, vitality and resistance throughout the system, by the active forces of the external system working with the internal system and internal organism. 4. We would keep much of that which has been outlined for the body. 5. Rest often, and be most mindful that the body is not exposed in night air; but plenty of fresh air at all times in the room or about the body. 6. Be mindful that the feet do not get damp or are not excessively cold. Be well that two or three times each week the lower limbs and feet be heated or massaged in a little higher temperature than tepid of the weak coffee solution or allow coffee grounds to be used - as an accumulation, though do not use SOURED grounds, for these will be harmful, but the coffee grounds; the liquid or the coffee fluid off of same, which carries with it an acid that is helpful to the extremities and should be massaged thoroughly into the knees, calves of legs, the feet, and especially the burses of the feet. This hot, or a good deal warmer that tepid; about two or three times each week. 7. The diet should be kept a well balanced diet, more alkalin than acid. That which builds much of the resistances for the system, and that will enable the blood supply to be well balanced in red blood plasm for the coagulation's influence in system. 8. Keep the eliminations through the alimentary canal well active, that there is no clogging or choking with kidneys or liver, and we will find the body will continue on the improve. 9. Ready for questions. 10. (Q) What causes her temperature to vary from 96 to 99 and sometimes a little past that? (A) Natural condition from the circulation attempting to adjust itself. A subnormal temperature, to be sure, is as bad as an abnormal one - or worse - with such conditions. The variations for this body should not be, and are not, an alarming condition; provided they do not go below 96 or much above 99 1/2. 11. (Q) Why can she not rest as well on her left side? (A) Natural conditions. For, THERE the tubercle has advanced farther. Don't PRESS the issue, but encase or so build the system as to choke out and to prevent the activity of the reactions from the lung area. 12. (Q) What should be done for the redness and itching caused by the violet ray machine? (A) This is not harmful, and should be not used so severe, but keep on using it on the portions of the body as indicated. Keep up all the treatments as outlined. Not as rote, but seeing the conditions being aided, helped, in the body. 13. (Q) What causes her to be so constipated? (A) Character of food and non-activity of the body. Use high enemas, and not so much of the acid foods, and we will find this will be improved.



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It would be well to use all the olive oil that the body can assimilate, which means taking it in VERY small doses; quarter of a teaspoonful every two or three hours. 14. (Q) Please tell a few things she could eat that would be best for her. (A) Best to study an alkalin diet. 15. That is all the questions regarding this body. 16. An alkalin diet that is especially adaptable for a respiratory disturbance. Means, then, that the properties of alcoholic content created in the system are of such natures that there is the PROPER activity to produce digestion. Or, it may be outlined as this, though it would be much prefer able for the body and the attendants to STUDY the case, study diet, study that which would be helpful: 17. Mornings - orange juice, lemon juice, grapefruit juice. These may be taken combined or they may be taken separately, see? Do not take them when cereals are taken that milk is eaten with, though they may be altered - and cereals of the whole wheat character, cooked cereals, eaten, and plenty of milk eaten with same. A little tea or Ovaltine may be taken at the same time that either the grapefruit or the citrus fruit juices are taken or the cereal. DO NOT take citrus fruit juices AND cereals at the same meal! Whole wheat toast, coddled eggs, little bacon, any or all of these may be taken; or stewed fruits, or baked apple, or the like. Any of these may be taken for the morning meal. 18. In between the morning meal (and eat it early; don't lay in bed till nine, ten or eleven o'clock and then expect to eat in between that and twelve, but eat it early!) and the noon meal, or at ten o, clock, take dried milk with raw egg stirred in well, or a few drops or a teaspoonful of spirits frumenti (that's about 95 or 90 proof) may be added to a whole glassful taken. 19. Noons - beef juices or broths, but do not take the broths of beef AND beef juice - for they don't work very well together. Take the beef JUICE preferably. Stewed fruits and oaten cereals may be taken at the noon meal. While the oaten cereals tend to be acid in their reaction, unless there is plenty of fruit juices taken in the evening meal or period, the whole wheat cooked cereals - and any of those that employ or use the whole of the wheat, including the bran - may be used and are alkalin in their reaction. 20. About three or four o'clock in the afternoon, take BEER - with egg in same! Beat well into the activity. 21. Evenings - before retiring - take vegetables, WELL cooked. 22. We are through with this reading. REPORTS OF READING 418-2 F 22 R1. 12/28/33 "I think I am doing pretty good. I didn't get up until I got your rdg. I have gained 2 lbs. since then. I weighed 121 lbs. when I went to bed - now I weigh 141 lbs. My temperature runs up in the evenings - 99 and 99 1/2. It does that after I take the beer in the afternoon. We thought maybe the beer was causing it to run up. I still cough bad and spit up lots in the morning when I first wake up. I think the weather is so bad here - it is so changeable - that I might not quit coughing until pretty weather in the spring. We could not get the dried milk here - we couldn't get it nearer than Nashville - that is 55 mi. from here, so I just



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keep taking the sweet milk with the egg in it. We are keeping up all the things you told us in the rdgs. All of my friends think what you do is wonderful. We do, too." R2. 1/5/34 "I am not doing so well the last 2-3 days. My temperature runs in the morning around 97-98, in the evening it runs up to 100. My throat feels like it is full. I cough nearly all the time. I have taken a little cold and my stomach hurts and cramps, and I have the headache often. I am going back to bed and stay there until I hear from you...the vegetables I eat that are seasoned in butter give me the heartburn and I can't hardly eat them. I was doing well until a few days ago. I can't understand what made my temperature start running up to 100... For the last 2-3 nights I have been so that I couldn't sleep, and I would feel nervous, and my stomach would feel all torn up - it makes me feel bad the next day. I would like to know what to do for that. R3. 1/11/34 See 418-3.



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INDEX OF READING 418-3 F 22 Air: Drafts: Warnings Par. 3, 12 Cough: Tuberculosis Par. 7--9 Diet: Beef Juice: Tuberculosis Par. 11 : Tuberculosis Par. 10, 11 Exercise: Debilitation: General Par. 12 Inhalants: Apple Brandy Fumes: Tuberculosis Par. 5, 6 Prescriptions: Alcohol: Cough Par. 7--9 : Benzoin Tincture: Par. 7--9 : Creosote, Rectified: Par. 7--9 : Eucalyptus, Oil of: Par. 7--9 : Syrup, Simple: Par. 7--9 : Turp, Rectified Oil of: Par. 7--9 : Yeast: Constipation Par. 14 Temperature: Fever: Tuberculosis Par. 13 TUBERCULOSIS BACKGROUND OF READING 418-3 F 22 B1. See 418-2 on 12/12/33, continued treatment for tuberculosis. B2. 1/5/34 She submitted questions. TEXT OF READING 418-3 F 22 This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at his home on Arctic Crescent, Virginia Beach, Va., this 11th day of January, 1934. 1. EC: Yes, we have the body here; this we have had before. 2. As we find, while improvements have been wonderful, there are at present some discouragements; with the rise of temperature that comes from congestion and the tendency for the coughing to be increased, with pains through the chest and the area in the left lung that has shown the tubercle being encased - FROM this irritation - now shows activity. 3. While this is only a setback, there must be greater precautions taken as to taking cold and going or sitting in drafts, or going about places where there are drafts without the head being properly covered, and open air at night that is not so well. Not that there is not to be constant amount of air in the sleeping quarters or sleeping apartment, but that this shall not blow directly on the body. The better way to ventilate the room would be to have an opening at the lower portion



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or near the floor and at the upper portion of the room on the opposite side, or near so. This will make for better ventilation and will prevent the draft being ON the body while sleeping. 4. As to the changes we find necessary in the present: 5. Heat up more the brandy and change the quantity you have here, and breathe DEEPER into the lungs, see? 6. Have prepared again the inhalant [as in 418-1] that is to act as the antiseptic that will prevent the reaction or the infection producing irritation in the throat and lungs. Breathe this, when taken, DEEP ENOUGH to go deep into the lungs, as WELL as the fumes from the brandy, see? 7. We would also prepare to take at times, when there is the tendency for the coughing or for too much of the refuses or spittle coming up (while it is well for this to be thrown off, we do not want to IRRITATE by straining; hence this would be taken internally, see?): 8. To 4 ounces of compound SIMPLE syrup (this means simple syrup to which sufficient quantity of alcohol is added to preserve same), add: Oil of Eucalyptus.............8 minims, Rectified Oil of Turp.........4 minims, Tincture of Benzoin..........15 minims, Rectified Creosote............4 minims. 9. Well that this be shaken together before the does is taken, which would be half a teaspoonful at the dose, see? This will allay the irritation and will not make for congestion in any portion of the system. 10. Follow the diet very carefully; that is, the milk, the egg and brandy or spirits frumenti. All of these are well, and it would be preferable to use the spirits frumenti THAN the beer in the present (that is, the character that has been used is not so good). 11. We would take plenty of the beef juice, small quantities at the time - but keep this near. 12. Not necessary for the body to remain in bed, if it is careful about drafts as we have indicated; for the strength does not gain so well as is necessary to build resistance in the system, when the body is inactive. 13. Do not be alarmed unless the temperature goes ABOVE a hundred, for there must be kept alive all the vitamins in the system. 14. Occasionally, once or twice a week, if there is not the activity of the bowels as they should, eat a cake of yeast! We are through with this reading. REPORTS OF READING 418-3 F 22 R1. 1/20/34 "We just rec'd your rdg., also your letter a few days ago. We sure appreciate your letters, they are so encouraging they cheer us up so. The doctor has said that if I run any fever I should stay in bed but I didn't pay any attention to him - he hasn't seen how well I look. I guess he would be surprised. Everybody says I look so well. If I had listened to the doctor here I would have been dead. I am feeling pretty good this morning. I still cough and spit up. I think I am better, though. You sure did tell me in the last rdg. where my pains were. My mother went to see Miss [243] last sunday a wk. ago - she said for them to take the thermometer away from me, not even let me see it - she told lots more things I can eat. I have been better ever since. I don't think I have had any temperature



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much since... I hope next time I write you I will be nearly well. My husband said my inhalant had lost its strength and he didn't know it [but you did]." R2. 1/27/34 Husband's letter: "She has had a cramping in her bowels for some time. She gets sick at her stomach very often and that makes her feel awful bad. She doesn't have any appetite for what she eats and she feels weaker some times than she does at others. She doesn't seem to be getting her strength back very fast. Her stomach seems to be bothering her more and making her feel worse than anything else. We give her one night Milk of Magnesia, next night Milk of Bismuth, next night 5 drops of Glyco-Thymoline, and the next night a mild laxative. We don't know whether to give her a purgative that will work on her liver or not - we thought it might make her too weak. I think if we could get her stomach to stay in good condition she would do lots better. She has the headache often, which I think is caused from her stomach or from being weak. Her tongue is coated, which I think is her liver not acting. Mr. Cayce, we certainly do appreciate your kindness in helping us, and just as soon as I can I am going to pay you for what you are doing, for we certainly do appreciate it." R3. 2/13/34 Husband's letter: "She has been awfully sick for 2 wks. and isn't very much better now. She took cold and had a hurting in her side and under chest so that she could hardly breathe, but that has all left now. She still runs a fever, around 101 in the evening, which makes her feel nervous and face flushes up. This evening it is 100 1/2 at 3: 15 P.M. It gets higher sometimes later on in the evening. She has gotten so she doesn't want anything to eat. Miss [243] came down Sun. a wk. ago. She recommended a tonic for us to give her for her appetite - Neoferrum, which has iron, manganese, Maltine and Sherry Wine. We have been giving that for a few days but it hasn't had any effect on her appetite yet. She has gotten pretty weak since she has had this spell and has lost some weight too. She has coughed and spit up lots, and sweated some at night. The hurting she had was mostly on her right side and under her chest. The left side wasn't bothered with it." R4. 2/21/34 "She can't eat anything for supper except drink a glass of milk. She has a catch sometimes below her chest when she coughs but it doesn't stay very long. Her stomach still cramps and bothers her a lot. We are still carrying on the treatment except the diet that calls for the egg and milk, and she says she can't take it. She says she sure wants you to send her a rdg. quick as possible, for that is the only hope that she has of getting well." R5. 2/23/34 See 418-4.



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INDEX OF READING 418-4 F 22 Diet: Beef Juice: Tuberculosis Par. 5 : Tuberculosis Par. 5, 13 Inhalants: Apple Brandy Fumes: Tuberculosis Par. 4, 16 Intestines: Enemas: Oil: Tuberculosis Par. 6--8 : Salt & Soda: Par. 6--8 Physiotherapy: Massage: Camphor: Cold: Congestion Par. 10--12 : Mutton Tallow: Par. 10--12 : Turpentine: Par. 10--12 Prescriptions: Apple Brandy: Cough Par. 14, 15 : Honey: Par. 14, 15 : Horehound: Par. 14, 15 STREPTOCOCCUS TUBERCULOSIS BACKGROUND OF READING 418-4 F 22 B1. See 418-3 on 1/11/34 giving additional advice in re tuberculosis. B2. 2/21/34 Her husband submitted questions. TEXT OF READING 418-4 F 22 This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at his home on Arctic Crescent, Virginia Beach, Va., this 23rd day of February, 1934. 1. EC: Yes, we have the body here; this we have had before. Not so good in some respects. Lost some ground by contraction of fresh cold and the inabilities to make for resistances sufficient in the body to meet the needs in the circulation; tending to make - by the slow activity of the liver, by the upset in digestive area - for strept, and this in the blood itself produces much more severe pains in the lungs themselves. 2. Do not be unduly alarmed as yet from the coughing or from the amount of phlegm that is expectorated. Do not be so mindful of taking the temperature; better keep that away for the while, for this works psychopathically on the body. 3. And if we will use these things, we will find that the strength will be brought back to the body: 4. First it will be necessary for the changing of the inhalant; that is, the brandies, for these were not so good in the first, and they have deteriorated to where they are not as good as they should be. In using same at present, or until there can be some changes made, get a fresh supply of brandy, see - a pint will be



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sufficient just now. When there is the tendency for coughing, choking up, or the heaviness, pour about a tablespoonful of the brandy into a pint of boiling water and let the body inhale the fumes from this, by putting a cover over the head even, you see, and let the steam, the fumes, be breathed into the nostrils and deep into the lungs, see? 5. As to the matter of diet, prepare all the BEEF juice (not broth, but beef JUICE) that the body may take, and do not have any fats in the meat when the juice is prepared - and cook it DONE, the meat, you see, for an hour and a half to two or three hours; then strain off, but don't eat the meat - it isn't good for a dog even! Take the juice in very small quantities. If it is given every thirty minutes, a teaspoonful or so, so much the better. At regular meal times, take the yolk of egg, coddled or boiled, and toast, liver Broiled, not fried), the broths and meat of WILD game - and all the milk the body may well assimilate; if possible, have the milk warm from the animal heat of the cow - but be sure the cow is free from any infectious forces, see? Have the milk tested before it is used for the body. There's been some taken that hasn't been so well! 6. Keep the eliminations by the use of oil enemas for the evacuation of the colon, where there's been the tendency for the accumulation - and that makes for bad conditions in the digestive system, upsetting the stomach sometimes back - because there was some food taken that was not just as fresh as it should have been; but use the enemas in this way and manner: 7. In the first quart and a half of water used, put a level teaspoonful of salt (put this in first) and a heaping teaspoonful of baking soda. Dissolve this. 8. After the evacuation, in the last pint of water, put the Russian White Oil. This will float, to be sure, but it will enter the colon also, if it's used in the proper way and manner. Keep it stirred as it is used, that there may be the prevention of any forces that would produce irritation or cohesion in the intestinal tract. 9. Do not overtax self, and be mindful that the body is kept warm. 10. When there is any real irritation in the throat, hard breathing, rub rather the lower limbs and the feet with a compound made in this manner: 11. To 2 heaping tablespoonsful of melted mutton suet, add 1/2 teaspoonful spirits of turpentine and 1 level teaspoonful spirits of camphor. 12. Massage this in the knees and in the lower limbs, and ESPECIALLY the bottoms of the feet. And when it is massaged in the bottoms of the feet, either toast them before the fire or heat flannels and wrap the feet in same. This will make for the circulation changing sufficiently. 13. And if there are the proper amounts of the beef juices taken, and the liver juices, and the foods that are blood building, we will build up resistances to this body. Do not use too much sugar, but stick to the blood building foods. 14. If GOOD apple brandy is obtained, to 1/2 pint of brandy add 2 tablespoonsful of strained honey (real honey; this doesn't mean made from that selected from other quantities; preferably take the honeycomb and sling it, because there isn't any such thing as making the honeycomb with imitation honey in it!). 15. Then, to 2 ounces of Horehound add 4 ounces of water. Let it stand, and what will be strained off and squeezed out may be put in the brandy and honey solution. Shake it together and take as an expectorant and as a stimuli. Don't



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take large quantities of it, but just SIP a little bit of it; that is, a teaspoonful at a time. This may be taken every two, three or four hours. 16. The inhalant will be the stronger for the relief. It'll get rid of the cold. 17. Do that. We are through for the present. REPORTS OF READING 418-4 F 22 R1. 3/5/34 Husband's letter: "Thought I would write you about my wife. She is not feeling well at all. She has lost her appetite and in the evening she runs a high fever. It was 103 this evening. Some evenings she is lots hotter than others, and I guess it will run to 105. She is getting weaker and falling off all the time. She has lost all the weight that she had gained. I don't think that there is any chance for her. I would like for you to write me and tell me just what you think about her. She has been sweating lots and her stomach seems so weak that she can't take the yolk of an egg without vomiting it up. Do not hesitate to tell me what you think about her, for I am keeping this letter from her. I would like for you to answer quick as possible. We are keeping up the treatment just like you said, but she is going down all the time." R2. 3/7/34 We wrote advising that EC was out of town and urged that they reconsider all the details mentioned in the last rdg., but we were putting both Mrs. [418] and her husband on the A.R.E. Prayer Group list, asking that they cooperate in prayer at any or all three daily prayer periods. R3. 3/15/34 Husband's letter: "My wife wanted me to drop you a few lines to tell you we are going by the last rdg. Her fever is awfully high in the evening and low in the morning. She has had a hurting right under each arm for 3-4 days and we could not get anything to ease her except a tablet that doped her up. We are doing everything we can and carrying the treatment out in full. We certainly do appreciate what you have done and if you have any more suggestions we will be glad to have them. As I guess you know, I wrote you before this, not letting my wife know it. I hope you have returned and will be glad to hear from you soon. Just write me and let me know what you think about her. We certainly did appreciate the letter we rec'd from your secretary and we certainly pray and hope it is God's will, with us helping, to restore her back to good health." R4. 4/5/34 EC wrote that he had been away from the office nearly a month [in Arizona]: "I will be very glad to try and be of help, if Mrs. [418] feels she would like to have information through this channel again. I think she herself could suggest to you the questions she would like to know." R5. 5/20/34 Miss [243]'s letter: "Mrs. [418] has been mighty sick. Her sister told me they called a doctor from Nashville who said he wouldn't treat the case as long as she was with her mother. He told [the sister] that they could have had her well from that rdg., had the child been allowed to follow it. I haven't heard from her for a wk. now, but when they get her away from her mother she will get better."



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R6. 5/25/34 EC's letter to Miss [243]: "I was quite a bit surprised to know that Mrs. [418]'s doctor agreed with the rdgs., but have had quite a number of such reports recently - possibly more in the last month than we have had in any year before... I hope she will be able to follow the information, and be sure to let them know we will be glad to do anything we can to be of help, but there is no use of us giving information and then it being disregarded. If it isn't worth trying, it isn't worth the trouble of getting it." R7. 7/27/34 EC's letter to Husband in answer to his card saying that his wife had passed on: "God, perhaps, in His wisdom, has seen fit to make the future home more desirable for you in taking her at this time. I am sure, however, you may feel that in the Hereafter she still lives. While she may not be in the body that has been so wracked with pain, the soul, the love, that has existed, hasn't changed one whit. "Know that we will be very glad to hear from you if we can ever be of service. I appreciate your card letting me know, and know that we are asking God's peace rest and abide with you always."



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INDEX OF READING 538-1 F 31 Gertrude Cayce Air: Oxygen: Tuberculosis Par. 10-A--12-A Diet: Tuberculosis Par. 10-A, 13-A Exercise: Tuberculosis Par. 11-A, 13-A INTESTINES: COLON: IMPACTION LESIONS Osteopathy: Tuberculosis Par. 10-A, 11-A Physiotherapy: Baths: Salt Water: Tuberculosis Par. 10-A, 11-A TUBERCULOSIS: CURED Work: E.C.: Readings: Missing Par. 2 BACKGROUND OF READING 538-1 F 31 B1. 5/17/11 Her 6 wks. old baby son died. TEXT OF READING 538-1 F 31 This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce in Hopkinsville, Ky. this 1st day of September, 1911. 2. EC: Yes, we have her here. We have had her before. [No copy of earlier readings in A.R.E. files.] 3. LBC: I want you to go over her carefully, examine her thoroughly, and tell us what is the matter with her. 4. EC: Now, you see, the condition we have in this body now is quite different from what we have had before. There has been a good deal of change in her system. Some of the trouble we had before has produced some of the conditions we still have in the system, or the effect of those left in the system retard the development of the condition in the body as it should be at this time. 5. You see, we have first from the head, pains along through the body here from the 2nd dorsal and the 5th and 6th dorsal, and from the 1st and 2nd lumbar. That is, we have tie-ups here, or floating lesions, or lateral lesions, in the muscular and nerve force which supply to those of the lower end of the lung and the diaphragm, in conjunction with the sympathetic nerve of the solar plexus here, coming in conjunction with the solar plexus at the end of the stomach. We have had, as we had before in the system, a tie-up through that of the digestive



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tract, or a state of impact through the larger, or through the colon here, most all the time. The fecal matter lying together there in the body, producing then the irritation as we have through the whole digestive system, leaving the body in a state of collapse, or run down state, as we have at present, and has allowed this congestion to form in the lung from the air breathed in and bacilli, to set up this condition as we have in the left lung in itself, until we have a congestion of the lung, or that is, of the blood circulating into this lung, becomes choked, or clogged, leaving the air to pass through that of the right and upper part of the left, leaving itself, as it were here, until we have a choked condition. 6. Now, it has been somewhat relieved here by the application of these forces to the exterior, also to the forces of the blood here from the circulation in itself, but the condition of the lung, of choking, that has been left in the system by the fecal matter of the intestine, through the circulation of the hepatics produced the temperature we have in the body, as it were, we have a chilling or congestion of the circulation which produces the temperature from the condition in the lung. That is, the air, not coming in perfect contact with the circulation, or the lack or re-oxidization of the blood, produced the condition as we have. Still, we have some of the bacilli here in the lung set up in these forces. 7. (Q) No organic trouble in the lung, is there? (A) The organ itself, of course, is involved here. The lung from its infection of the forces. 8. (Q) Any other conditions of the system? (A) We have the reflex conditions from these, of course, through the whole body. The action of its force on the whole system to the other organs through the circulation, through the mind or matter, in itself. 9. (Q) Are the tissues, or the cells of the lung broken? (A) No; only choked here at present, you see. They are solid. 10. (Q) What treatment would you prescribe to relieve these conditions and bring the body back to normal condition? (A) We have here the condition in the body. You see, we can have one or we can have many ways to relieve the condition, but to alleviate the trouble we have, to destroy the bacilli itself, and that is only through the air itself, or discharge it as it is sloughed off and thrown out through absorption or through the circulation. We can relieve the condition either as what we have here applied before to the exterior and interior, both or regeneration of the blood, or re-enforcing the blood, as we have said, with the forces that rebuild tissue, lung cell forces, or we can rejuvenate by the action of the manipulation of the nerve centers or muscular forces along the spine that supply to the blood forces to relieve the taxed condition of the muscular and blood forces, until we allow a unison of the circulation to those, or from stimulants to the circulation by the relaxation of these forces along the spine from the 9th to the upper cervical, 1st and 2nd. That only relieves the condition at present. To remove at present it would be best to have plenty of open air at all times; bathe with water, or salt, or sea water; high altitude - rarefied air - and plenty of exercise, and give the roughest of foods, not too much of it; fats, and that which builds blood; that of iron, carbon in the system.



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11. (Q) That manipulation along the spine, should be osteopathic treatment? (A) That is to relieve the muscular forces, so that we can produce a condition by the action of the air itself, outside: that is, we need the body to be outside, in the open air; free from cares or worries to the mind [Her second baby son had died about 3 months ago. Born 3/28/11, died 5/17/11. A brother, Mr. [5705], had died of T.B. 4/13/10.]; exercise of the arms, especially, over the head, to expand the lung force. Keep away the pressure of the forces here from below, around the intestinal tract, by manipulation, keeping the whole body full and flushed at all times. The salt is to strengthen the forces here. It gives strength to the body and does not keep the blood forces choked. We remove these forces only through the circulation and by absorption. As the lymph from the white blood is thrown around the bacilli they are drawn off and expelled. If we allow the body to remain and chase these back and forth through the forces they break, and then become the eating of the tissue of itself. 12. (Q) Any other treatment you would prescribe now? (A) Either of these, but the air will have to do it. 13. (Q) What diet should she take? (A) Depends on the treatment she takes. If we have the open air we want the roughest kinds; fats and carbon. If it is the same life as we have here - indoor - we have those of the gluten character, and stimulants, with that of medicinal properties as we are using here, with that of stimulants sedative to the forces in the lung cells. But to destroy that, either get out in the air with the roughest, of course, and sea water, and exercise the arms above the head here. REPORTS OF READING 538-1 F 31 R1. 11/21/11 See 538-2.



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INDEX OF READING 538-2 F 31 Air: Oxygen: Tuberculosis Par. 6-A COLD: CONGESTION Electrotherapy: Violet Ray: Tuberculosis Par. 6-A Environment: Locality: Change Par. 6-A LIVER: SLUGGISH Osteopathy: Tuberculosis Par. 5-A Prescriptions: Heroin: Tuberculosis Par. 6-A : Pepsin: Par. 6-A : Soda, Phosphate of: Par. 6-A : Thermal: Par. 6-A : Vascine: Par. 6-A TUBERCULOSIS: CURED BACKGROUND OF READING 538-2 F 31 B1. See 538-1 on 9/11/11 for tuberculosis. TEXT OF READING 538-2 F 31 This Psychic Reading given by Edgar Cayce in Hopkinsville, Ky., on the 21st day of November, 1911. 2. EC: Yes; we have her here. We have had her before. 3. LBC: I want you to go over her carefully, examine her thoroughly, and tell us what is her condition now. 4. EC: Good deal of difference in the condition in the body now and what we had before. We have some parts better and others not so well. We have some inflammation in the throat and larynx more than we had before. We have less of the congestion in the lung, though we still have some. The eliminating power of the liver is not as good. The blood is weaker - thinner - from the lack of hemoglobin in it. The troubles as we have through the pelvis, of course, are aggravated at present from the condition we find in the parts themselves here in the pelvis. 5. (Q) Any organic trouble in the pelvis? (A) We have organic troubles through the pelvis function through that of the liver. The congestion is lower than we had before here in the lungs. A good deal of inflammation in the larynx and throat; good deal of soreness in the left side of the throat, produced by this condition we have in the lungs and liver.



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6. (Q) Has the treatment she has been getting reached the case properly? (A) We have not stirred up the liver here enough to produce the proper secretions to eliminate and carry out the particles through the dross as we should have through the intestinal tract, or through the dross proper. We have along the spine the manipulation, and relaxation has relieved the muscular forces and conditions through the lungs and the cells themselves, or to that of the cover of the lungs themselves, or the pleura. The condition, of course, has become aggravated here through that of taking on of this cold; congestion in the throat and head - aggravated condition, of course, of the catarrhal condition that existed as we had before in the head is not as bad as it was before, though it is worse in the throat itself, or the larynx, from the condition of the stomach. And of the aggravated condition of the throat and larynx, we have not removed the trouble from that. 7. (Q) What treatment would you prescribe to relieve these conditions and bring the body back to a normal condition? (A) Change of scenes and climation [climate?], electrical forces as applied along the spine by that of static forces itself, direct, [violet ray hand machine?] over the whole body, or by those of electrical forces through a low state of electricity to produce a full capillary circulation; or by taking into the system that which will aid the circulation through the lungs and larynx here, of the consistency of heroin, pepsin, vasicine [?], thermal [?], 1/8, 1 minim, 2 minims, 1/8 drachm, capsule form, tablets or powder, and intestinal tract that of a nature that will form or act to that of the liver itself, or as we find through that of forces produced by small quantities of salt taken into the system with that of soda phosphate. Cold baths, rubbing of the spine to produce a full and warm glow. Plenty of exercise, open air; sleep in as much air as possible. 8. (Q) Any other treatment for the present? (A) No; this will help it, and the body will get better from the conditions we have at present. REPORTS OF READING 538-2 F 31 R1. 11/22/11 See 538-3.



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INDEX OF READING 538-3 F 31 ANEMIA Cold: Congestion: Susceptibility Par. 4-A Doctors: Oldham, James E.: D.O. Par. 7-A Electrotherapy: Violet Ray: Tuberculosis Par. 9-A Environment: Climate: Change Par. 7-A, 8-A Intestines: Colon: Impaction Par. 7-A LESIONS LIVER: TORPID Osteopathy: Tuberculosis Par. 7-A Prescriptions: Creosote: Tuberculosis Par. 9-A : Eucalyptol: Par. 9-A : Heroin: Par. 9-A : Sal Hepatica: Liver: Torpid Par. 9-A : Terebene: Tuberculosis Par. 9-A : Turpentine: Par. 9-A TUBERCULOSIS: CURED BACKGROUND OF READING 538-3 F 31 B1. See 538-2 on 11/21/11 for tuberculosis. TEXT OF READING 538-3 F 31 This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce in Hopkinsville, Ky., this 22nd day of November, 1911. 4. EC: We haven't much change in the body now from what we had before, you see. Some better through the condition here of the throat; not quite so much inflammation. We have more, though, of the inflammation through the intestinal tract; that is, below the stomach. We have disturbance, of course, through the stomach still. Some congestion through the lung. A great deal in the bronchials and head, and in the nasal ducts. Good deal of soreness in the throat and across the diaphragm from the coughing, or expulsion of the air from the lungs by



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the coughing. Good deal of a cough produced by the lack of the blood to remove these particles from the body through the proper channels. Impoverishment of the blood; lowness of its red blood, or hemi-globin [hemoglobin], produces easy to take cold, or to the temperature from the outside. 5. (Q) What condition is the liver now? (A) Torpid. 6. (Q) How are the kidneys? (A) The action from these, of course, is of a frequent nature; not so much so as we have had at times before. The inflammation through the pelvis, of course, is from the condition we have the body in at present, the same as we had before. The tautness of the muscular forces in the pelvis is produced from these lesions along the limb here, on the left side. 7. (Q) The lower limb? (A) Down below the knee here, you see. Along the muscular force along the conjunction with the larger bond [bone?] itself, above the knee. The fracture or hurt was below, you see. We have impacts through the intestines, or colon. Gathering of fecial [fecal] matter from lack of secretions being thrown out to eliminate properly through the channels. We need change of climation [climate] or air itself, a change or rest to the mind and body. Action of both off of things as they have now to raise the power of suggestion or action of the sensory organism to the rest of the system through the nerve forces of the body. And take into the system those of parts which will act and a help to eliminate through the proper channels. Forces as we had of manipulation [by James E. Oldham, D.O.?] have not removed all the forces to their proper order and to a normal organism of the body itself. Then the congestion in the colon as we have in the body has produced a disturbance through the bronchials with the condition we had in the lungs, and produced an aggravation to the lungs themselves. The condition is left in the stomach, intestines, liver and kidneys through the action of the hepatic circulation in the body by carrying the blood back and forth, and this not being able to eliminate the condition, and the impoverishment of the blood itself, leaves the condition we have, taking up the fats to use in building of the body instead of restoring to a normal condition. 8. (Q) What treatment would you prescribe to relieve these conditions and bring the body back to a normal condition? (A) Climation to the body, or removal from the scenes as we have; of new scenes, and take into the system as we should have had before, as we have not had; those in the form of the - that is, to the bronchials here, and the lung forces, and the condition we have through the pleura. 9. (Q) What was that? We didn't get it. Was it heroin? (A) Take into the system either those of heroin, pepsin and ascena (?) here, reduced in the state of form here to be taken into the system, or those we would have through those here of this: Terebene [Oil of Turpentine?], 2 minims; eucalyptol, 1 minim; one minim creosote, 1/16 grain heroin to each capsule or tablet, taken into the system from one to four times a day, to remove this condition through the bronchials and throat itself. Into the system for that of the



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condition of the intestine and stomach and kidneys, of salt or salines in small quantities, calcium chloride, with those of phosphates of soda, or as we would have in the form of salicalica [Sal Hepatica?] here, with the electrical force of low form along the spine, or the direct from the static forces [violet ray hand machine?], or the baths of electrical force, to produce a stronger capillary circulation and bring about the rejuvenation of the blood in itself. 10. (Q) Any other treatment? (A) This is what you need to do now to help the body. REPORTS OF READING 538-3 F 31 R1. 1/1/12 See 538-4. R2. See Source File Key #538-3 for all current reports, supplements and professional commentaries re 538-3.



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INDEX OF READING 538-4 F 31 Air: Oxygen: Tuberculosis Par. 31-A INTESTINES: COLON: IMPACTION Prescriptions: Creosote: Tuberculosis Par. 28-A : Eucalyptol: Par. 28-A : Figs, Syrup of: Eliminations Par. 30-A : Heroin: Tuberculosis Par. 28-A : Terebene: Par. 28-A Liver: Torpid Par. 8-A, R6 Spleen: Atrophy Par. 19-A TUBERCULOSIS: CURED ULCERS: LUNGS BACKGROUND OF READING 538-4 F 31 B1. See 538-3 on 11/22/11 for tuberculosis. TEXT OF READING 538-4 F 31 This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce, this 1st day of January, 1912. 4. EC: The general condition over the body as we have it here now is not as good as we had before, though we have some parts, here in the pelvis especially, that are better, and the condition as we have through the throat or thorax, or lower part of the mouth, or upper part of the throat, or the end of the tongue, is very much inflamed, though the condition as we find in the throat itself is in some conditions better; that is, from what produces it, from below. 5. The condition as we find through the lung is filled up more than we had before. 6. The condition through the colon, stomach and liver is not as good. That is, the excretory system is choked up more than we had before; the eliminating power, the resistive force in the body. The blood as we have it now is the temperature that still lacks the force that is used in it to produce a richer and stronger force in the body. It is carrying more of the bacilla [bacilli] from the hepatic circulation and not being clarified in the lungs, as it should be properly. 7. (Q) What is the condition of the lungs proper now? (A) The inflammation we had in the lower part of the lung here close to the diaphragm, and where the abrasion we had on the pleura and diaphragm below, is removed and absorbed into the system in itself, as shown through the condition of the liver, also, into the circulation. As to the lungs themselves, that is, the branches and cellular force as we have in the clarification of the circulation



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into the body as produced into the lungs, we have a choking up, or congestion, of the lung itself on the left side, while we have a fullness to that of the right. Especially do we find this through the upper portion and central part of the lung; that is, of the left one here. As to the throat, or what produces the trouble, that condition in the body has been improved, though it has gone back from what we had before. 8. (Q) What is the condition of the intestines and colon? (A) Packed through the colon. Lack of assimilation through the intestine, upper, lack of excretory and secreting properties of the liver in itself to carry off the proper secretions, both to the circulation and to the digestion. We have that of bacilla [bacilli] through the blood produced in the liver, or that in the form of temperature produced in the body, through that of inflammation through the lungs or throat and intestinal tract itself. 9. (Q) What is the condition of the stomach? (A) Lack of digestive fluid, or lack of power to secrete properly to digest or assimilate that taken into it. Lack of circulation being proper to these on account of the expulsion of the forces as applied against it by those of the expelling of the air from the lungs, producing to the diaphragm an extra force or amount of blood carried to that, producing an irritant or sickening to the stomach. 10. (Q) Is there any ulceration of the lungs? (A) The cells are choked up. Ulceration is produced from the throat and from the inflammation as carried back and forth from the excess of matter being carried to the lungs to be removed from the system. 11. (Q) Any broken cells in the lungs? (A) Only those as we have along the side or upper portion here; that of the bronchials themselves, or the beginning of the bronchials leading to the tubes themselves. 12. (Q) What causes the cough? (A) The inflammation in the throat and upper part of the lungs. 13. (Q) Any ulceration in the throat? (A) Yes. 14. (Q) Where has this hemorrhage come from, the throat or lungs? (A) From the throat. You see, we have leading from the throat to the bronchials and lungs themselves, we have at the conjunction of these the inferior muscular forces as applied to the expulsion of the air from the lungs. The inflammation of these inflaming in these glands to the bronchials, or around these, has produced to the throat itself, that is, to the upper part of the bronchials and in the throat in connection, the inflammation as we have. The expulsion of the air from the lungs ruptures these as they pass by here from the ulcerations. The spittle is produced from the congestion of the lungs. 15. (Q) Do you find any germs in the lungs? (A) Bacilla [Bacilli] and cell forces in the lungs themselves. In the left, in the blood. 16. (Q) Are they disease producing germs? (A) Yes.



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17. (Q) What is the condition of the nose? (A) Very much inflamed sympathetically, from the condition of the throat. The catarrhal condition as we had produced from time back, but this is some better in the condition itself through sympathetic, but the inflammation remains, you see, through the nasal passage, or here in the head and face proper. 18. (Q) Has there been any hemorrhage from the nose? (A) No. 19. (Q) What is the condition of the spleen? (A) Lower end is atrophied, as we had before, through the sympathetic action of its force and of its supplying to the organ of the sensory organism, or the nervous condition in the body, which produces the pains we have along the spine, especially here at the first and second dorsal, as it shows itself and its forces and activity to the rest of the system. 20. (Q) Are there any cavities in the lungs? (A) Only in the central and upper portions. 21. (Q) How large are they? (A) Just begun, though they have opened larger than we have had before. 22. (Q) Do they contain anything? (A) These forces first open and gather to this same cellular force as we had before here, which is formed into matters of itself. We have a cellular force into the blood which forms around disease or formation of destruction to cellular force in the body - leukocyte condition in the body. As these pass around and gather these forces they tend to keep them from the system until they assimilate it or pass through absorption. In these the cells are broken and have shown in the lung tissue itself. 23. (Q) What is the condition of the heart? (A) It is over worked. 24. (Q) Why? (A) The increase of circulation, or the quantity of matter that is passed through it, or the blood force in its hurried condition to keep to the system as much of the newness of blood force as possible, though in the organ itself there is nothing. 25. (Q) What is the condition of the arteries leading from the heart? (A) Plethoral cellular force to the outside walls, from the rapid condition of the circulation. They are not of a nature to produce inflammation in themselves. 26. (Q) What is the condition of the pulmonary vein? (A) Gorged. [Engorged?] 27. (Q) What treatment would you prescribe to relieve these conditions and bring the body back to a normal and healthy condition? (A) The removal of the conditions as we have in the system through that of assimilation and absorption from the body as far as possible. We can assist the body to come to normal condition through assimilation by giving strength and force to the body itself, by producing in the circulation through the hepatics that of power to eliminate through the dross. As long as we keep the colon in the closed state we have we will keep into the system to produce more matter, and pick up through the forces as we pass through the lung circulation to carry themselves



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over the system. Remove the condition as we have in the liver and colon, and then put those into the system whereby we assist in the circulation in these conditions as we have through the blood force in the lung itself, or that in the form as we have had before, of the eucalyptol and turbene [terebene?]. This is the same as we have had here before. 28. (Q) What else? (A) We have it here: heroin, 1/16, to the dose; eucalyptol, 1 minim; turbene [terebene], 1 minim; creosote, 1 minim, to the weight, that is, to the digestion here, to the stomach. This goes into the stomach here in the form of capsule or pellet or liquid state. That in the form of sodas, also that of matters whereby we produce weight to the capillary attraction to the circulatory force into the intestines and colon, and hepatic circulation, those in the form of crystallized phosphates and of soda, here; salines, or salt in the system here, not enough to sicken, to produce weight or balance to the circulatory system itself. Then the treatment of the conditions we have through the throat itself, from above. The body will improve from what we have it here now. We can produce enough into the system to produce a wall around this force, this organ, then we will stop it here. If we don't, the ravages of the disease itself will carry on this force and produce more inflammation and distribute it through the system. 29. (Q) Do you know what this disease is? What do you call it? (A) We have tubercular forces in the lungs themselves. It is the ravages in themselves as shown through the throat now. 30. (Q) What laxative would you prescribe for the bowels? Anything more than you have prescribed? (A) We have to the force here of salines and phosphates here into the system for the stomach. Pass into the system here through that of the form of oils, that is, injections from the back for the colon, as we have here, into the system, because it cannot be taken into the mouth here, until we assimilate these through the sodas and salines, or those we find through that of fig, cascara, aloes [Syrup of Figs?]. 31. (Q) Any other treatment you would prescribe for the lungs? (A) Those of air and more of oxygen into the system.

REPORTS OF READING 538-4 F 31 R1. 2/9/18 Her third son, [487] was born. R2. 1/24/21 Mother, Mrs. [265]'s letter: "My daughter was entirely restored to health some years ago after a number of physicians, including specialists, had stated there was absolutely no hope of her recovery, from what they diagnosed as tuberculosis, limiting her life to a possible three months." R3. 12/5/23 She obtained a horoscope or Life Rdg. - 538-5. R4. 1/17/24 She obtained a Ck. Physical, 538-6, for pleurisy, tipped stomach, inflamed throat, vaginal irritation. R5. See subsequent Ck. Physical rdgs. R6. GD's note: Although her tuberculosis was cured, the engorged liver and spleen condition, atrophy, etc., must have remained - as referred to in 538-1 through 538-4, because on 4/1/45 she died within three months after the doctors discovered she had cancer of the liver.



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INDEX OF READING 538-6 F 43 ANEMIA DEBILITATION: GENERAL Eliminations: Poor Par. 10, 11 Diet: Debilitation: General Par. 14 Electrotherapy: Violet Ray: Spine: Subluxations Par. 15 Osteopathy: Spine: Subluxations Par. 5, 15 Pelvic Disorders: Vaginal Discharge: Leukorrhea Par. 6 Physiotherapy: Spray: Glyco-Thymoline: Ulcers Par. 17 Prescriptions: Calisaya Elixir: Debilitation: General Par. 13 : Cayenne Extract: Par. 13 : Potassium Bromide: Par. 13 : Potassium Iodide: Par. 13 : Syrup, Simple: Par. 13 : Valerian Tincture: Par. 13 SPINE: SUBLUXATIONS STOMACH: TIPPED Supports: Abdominal: Stomach: Tipped Par. 9, 19-A Tuberculosis: Tendencies Par. 8 ULCERS: THROAT: TENDENCIES BACKGROUND OF READING 538-6 F 43 B1. See 538-1 through 538-4 between 9/1/11 and 1/1/12 having to do with what the doctors called terminal tuberculosis, of which she was cured by following treatment in the readings. B2. 1/17/24 She sought a rdg. for pleurisy-like pains, inflamed throat, and a vaginal irritation.



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TEXT OF READING 538-6 F 43 This Psychic Reading given by Edgar Cayce at Phillips Hotel, Room 115, Dayton, Ohio, this 17th day of January 1924, in accordance with request made by self - Mrs. [538]. 1. EC: Yes, we have the body here. We have had this before, you see. 2. Now, we find there are a great many changes in this body since last we had it. In many respects the change has been and is for the better. There are some abnormal conditions at the present time that may be corrected. 3. These are the conditions as we find them at the present time. First: 4. IN THE BLOOD SUPPLY, there is not sufficient of the blood, either in quantity or in quality, so far as the rebuilding forces call for in the system. Hence the vitality of the body in the general way is that of debilitation through the excess of forces used in the body, and the body becomes devitalized. 5. IN THE NERVE SYSTEM, we find the body still with some centers that need adjustment that will relieve the strain and distress on the system, those especially in the upper lumbar and lower dorsal region, as well as those in cervical and upper dorsal. 6. In the centers that have become involved with the system absorbing or becoming congested inflammation through congestion occurs in centers that are fed by nerve and blood tissue from these centers attempting to create sufficient irritation in system to cause sufficient flow of blood to overcome condition. Hence the condition in throat and larynx, and the pains in head from pressure produced on centers. Also the trouble in the lower dorsal regions from the dorsal and upper lumbar centers becoming inflamed produce the repression in pelvic organ function, and gives secretions [leukorrhea?] that are abnormal to the body. 7. IN THE FUNCTIONING OF ORGANS THEMSELVES, we find the brain forces very good. 8. The throat, lungs, larynx - the larynx and bronchials are inflamed from conditions as given, yet no organic trouble, though without the restraining of conditions might become organic conditions again, same as we have through the upper portion of left lung. This may become involved unless corrections in the condition are made. 9. The digestive tract, stomach, we find below normal in size, and dipped just slightly to the left [?] end, causing strain and inability of the body to force stomach to expand sufficient to make normal digestion in the body. This has best be corrected by the body wearing brace to this portion of body. 10. In the functioning of liver and hepatic circulation, this is some better than has been, and in this the cause of unequalized circulation in that system has absorbed sufficient to make the change in circulation, and the body attempting to form equalization in blood and secretions finds itself perceptible [susceptible?] to the congestion which shows in centers as given. 11. In the intestinal tract, in this we find the lack of secretions in the body for this portion to function normally, and the repression produces the toxins that are absorbed in system, and gives the congestion to working forces, as it were, in the system, with blood devitalized as it is.



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12. In the functioning of kidneys and organs of pelvis, we find these in the condition from the condition produced in nerve system, and reflexly through the action of hypogastric centers, both in circulation and nerve supply to the organs of the pelvis. 13. RELIEF, to give the best for the body, and to bring the normal forces in system at the present time, would be to take in the system this: Tincture of Valerian..............2 ounces, Iodide of Potassium...............2 grains, Bromide of Potassium..............8 grains, Elixir Calisaya...................2 ounces, Fluid Extract of Cayenne..........1 minim. Sufficient simple syrup to make six ounces. The dose would be teaspoonful three to four times each day, after meals, or between meals. 14. Let the diet be gruels, or food carrying high protein value and easily digested in the system. Vegetable matter (green) as much as possible. Lettuce, asparagus, celery. All of these are extra good. Not too much acids, though tomatoes may be used if not too ripe. 15. The adjustment or osteopathic forces over the whole system for the centers, and the violet ray for nerve and blood supply at least once each day over the whole body. 16. Do that. We will find we will bring the better conditions and the normal forces, and equalize the body throughout. 17. For the local condition in throat and larynx we would use the gargle or spray to neutralize the secretions and reduce inflammation. Listerine or of Glyco-Thymoline used in spray. 18. Do that. 19. (Q) What kind of a brace should be used for the condition of the stomach? (A) Something as a band, or brace, that may be fastened about the body to hold body and brace the condition. 20. We are through. REPORTS OF READING 538-6 F 43 R1. 2/7/24 See 538-7. R2. See 538-10 on 3/13/25 indicating that fall down stairs had up-turned stomach to nearer correct position, etc.



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INDEX OF READING 591-1 M ADULT ANEMIA Attitudes & Emotions: Cheerfulness: Healing Par. 10 Blood: Oxidization: Tuberculosis Par. 11 DEBILITATION: GENERAL Diet: Beef Juice: Tuberculosis Par. 15 : Menu: Par. 12--17 Electrotherapy: Violet Ray: Tuberculosis Par. 11 Healing: Consistency & Persistency Par. 5 Inhalants: Apple Brandy Fumes: Tuberculosis Par. 8 : Keg, Charred: Par. 8 Liver: Kidneys: Tuberculosis Par. 4 Physiotherapy: Baths: Tuberculosis Par. 7 Prescriptions: Ash: Animated: Tuberculosis Par. 11 : Calcidin: Tuberculosis Par. 9 : Spirits Frumenti: Par. 12, 16 Rest: Tuberculosis Par. 7 TUBERCULOSIS BACKGROUND OF READING 591-1 M ADULT B1. 6/11/34 Landlady friend [593]'s ltr.: "Mr. [591] has been very ill, and decided that he wanted to come home [from the T.B. sanitarium], so here he is, and with the trouble he has we just cannot get people to work for us, even if we could afford it." TEXT OF READING 591-1 M ADULT This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at his home on Arctic Crescent, Virginia Beach, Va., this 22nd day of June, 1934. 1. EC: Yes, we have the body here, [591].



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2. Now, as we find, there are disturbing forces and disorders in the physical functioning of the body, that prevent the better or normal reaction in the physical body of [591]. 3. These conditions, as we find, have been of long standing, or the causes of same. While they have been latent during a portion of the time, the general debilitation in the physical body and the worriment in the mental body has allowed the disorders to gain control and in themselves feed upon the vitality of the system. And, as we find, they affect the body in this way and manner: 4. The BLOOD SUPPLY shows inefficiency in the quantity and quality of the red blood cells. The attempt of the system to produce sufficient of the vital energy or vital' through the leucocyte and white blood force as to prevent the inroads of the infectious forces keeps the vitality low, with a tendency for a temperature produced by the great strain that is involving the liver and the kidneys in their activity, and - as in a great percent of those that have a tubercle or a lung disorder - this is the factor that must be warred against; that is, in the liver and the kidneys and their activity, as well as - of course - in keeping that which will supply to the system the conditions that will make for sufficient of the blood building forces in the body as to supply the needs thereof. 5. The strain that is produced upon the organs and the natural reaction from a general debilitated NERVOUS SYSTEM is apparent with this body; and we find conditions that are making heavy inroads upon the activity of the organs, and that much of the area in the lung has already become involved. Yet, there may be applied in the system those things that will guard against the depressions and activities that have been indicated that need to be warned or warred against, for there is sufficient of the vitality and strength in the body to build sufficient resistance as to overcome and to make for a much nearer normal reaction; thus supplying in this experience for the body the opportunity for working out much of that in the mental and in the material forces that is desired by the inner self of the body. Yet this, as we find, will require precautions and being consistent and being persistent with those applications that would be made for the betterment of these conditions in this body. 6. Then, in meeting the needs of those things as we find for this body, first we would give this: 7. While there should be some activity physically, a great deal of rest will or should be the better portion of that which we would apply. This should be as much in the open as possible; but - because of the rest periods - do not be negligent of self in the cleanliness of the body and the regular baths that would make for a sufficient activity to the respiratory system through the texture of the skin itself, and that would carry away from the system those poisons and accumulations that come naturally through the activity of the body in its attempt to throw off through the system. Cleanliness for the body, especially in these activities, is a necessary precaution. 8. There should be also the antiseptics, and the use of the inhalations for the body that will clarify the lung area, the lung tissue, in such a way and manner as to aid the blood circulation and the purifying of same for the body, as to keep for bettered conditions. Hence we would prepare a gallon of apple brandy, PURE



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apple brandy, in a charred container. Keep this corked tight, but prepare so that the fumes from the top of the brandy may - with the shaking of same - be inhaled or breathed deep into the lungs three to four times each day. This would be prepared with a tube into the keg, that may be kept corked; not running into the brandy, but the vapor that is above same. Hence we would have the brandy in a two to two and a half gallon container. This will be for an antiseptic and for a healing, and for an aiding to the body itself. 9. We would, at least once or twice each day, take a one grain tablet of Calcidin, which will supply sufficient of the iodine elements to produce a better functioning with the glands of the system, especially as related to the eliminations from the body; that is, the glands of the organs, the glands of the body that function to produce in the system the functionings of the organs as related to their activity in the eliminations of the body. 10. As much as possible we would keep an atmosphere of cheerfulness about the body. 11. Also we would use the Animated Ash; an eighth grain taken into the system each evening before retiring. And five to ten minutes after the Ash has been taken (emptied OUT of capsule onto tongue and washed down with water; do not take IN capsule), we would use the violet ray over the left lobe of the lung itself, front and back, for five to ten minutes, and especially through that area along the cerebrospinal system in the rear or back and that along the connection of the rib with the frontal portion or bone, but over the area of the lobe itself also, you see. This, we will find, will aid in producing a better oxidization, or more oxygen for the blood supply. Do not apply this just as something to be gotten through with, but apply it with the knowledge that the activity of the electrical forces will be effective in the betterment of the condition of the body. 12. Be very mindful of the diet. There should be taken the properties of spirits frumenti with raw egg and milk, not in such quantities as to affect or disturb the activity of the liver and kidneys in their coordinating one with another; hence we would follow the diet in this way and manner: 13. Mornings - citrus fruit juices; combinations of oranges, grapefruit and lemons; that is, one day take one, the next day they may be combined together, or the next day there may be only taken the grapefruit juices, again there may be taken only the lemon juices. These we would have in the early morning, you see; with toast, coddled egg, coffee or tea. 14. In the middle of the forenoon we would take a glass full of malted milk, or any of the dried milk or the like, you see. This may be prepared with a raw egg, but use ONLY the yolk of the egg. 15. Noons - rather a fresh, green, RAW vegetable salad, consisting of such as lettuce, tomatoes, carrots, peppers, radish; ALL of such may be used, with the mayonnaise or oil dressing. Afterwards we would take at least two tablespoonsful of beef juice; just the beef juice, which does not mean broth but the pure beef JUICE; or if preferable this may be taken first, with Graham or brown crackers or the whole wheat bread toasted, then some of the salad or green raw vegetables afterwards - but alter this.



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16. In the middle of the afternoon we would have the spirits frumenti, or the better grades of whiskey, but only sufficient to cook the egg; using only the yolk of an egg or two. 17. Evenings - well balanced vegetable diet, well cooked; at times with fish, mutton, fowl or the like, but no hog meat at ANY time. 18. These will be found to be the most beneficial activities as we find for this body. Do that. We are through with this reading. REPORTS OF READING 591-1 M ADULT R1. 7/2/34 See Mrs. [593]'s ltr. under her own rdg. 593-1 Reports expressing appreciation for her own rdg. and Mr. [591]'s. R2. 8/14/34 Mrs. [593]'s letter to EC: Birmingham, Ala. Mr. Edgar Cayce; Dear Friend. I have waited for some days to pass, thinking that I would be able to tell you some good news, but so far it can't be done, Mr. [591] is losing ground every day, some days he feels pretty good, but most days he gets down, and we just don't seem to be able to get him up at all, and just now he is having one of those spells, he is losing weight all the time, he has lost 15 lbs. since his return, and is very much discouraged. We have gotten all the things that he should have, with the exception of the Violet Ray lamp, and we just don't seem to be able to get that, but he gets out into the sun-shine every day, just for a few minutes. I am doing lots better, than I have for some time, and feel assured that I will soon be able to say...NOW... Enclosed you will find $2.00 as per request...and am so happy to be able to do this little bit...as I do so want to be able to do real things, and some time I want you to help me find some way in which I will be able to earn money for myself, I am God's child and am heir to his riches, therefore I am able to earn my own income, so that I can look the world in the face, and pay as I go. Am I right, thinking along this line? Things here are some better, and they will gradually get just right, and we will have peace and contentment in the home. [GD's note: Her husband was addicted to drink, etc.] No more for today. Thanks for all. Most sincerely, [593] R3. 8/20/34 EC wrote that Mr. [591] should have the violet ray, that the sun wasn't the same thing. R4. 9/2/34 Mrs. [593]'s letter to EC: Mr. Edgar Cayce; Dear Friend. Yours of Aug. 20 received, and was glad to hear from you at that time, but as Mr. [591] was so sick, I just waited until now to write to you, at that time he had a real bad case of pleurisy, and seemed to be so sick, that it took just all that I had to wait on him, but now he is somewhat better, so I will try to explain all that you want to know.



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I got the Violet Ray for him in just a day or so, after I wrote you, and we are following out all of your instructions, with the exception of the apple Brandy...as that is one thing that cannot be bought at this time, but we have some in the making, and hope to have that in the next few days. He has taken all of the ASH...shall I order more...he has about another weeks supply. Now he is confined to the house, and is at home all the time at this address...and any morning that you want to give him a check reading we will be very happy to get same, and would like to ask the following questions. Is any part of the right lung involved? Is the throat involved (as he has to cough nearly every time that he eats, and loses his food more often than seems right)? He has gained some weight, and in some ways seems better than he was, and in some ways seems to be weaker than he was, and is so much more despondent. If permissible would also like to know if he should give up smoking, as he smokes quite a lot...(Cigarettes) R5. 9/7/34 See 591-2.



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INDEX OF READING 591-2 M ADULT Clairvoyance of E.C.: Action & Places Par. 6 Humor Par. 4 Inhalants: Apple Brandy Fumes: Tuberculosis Par. 4 Liver: Kidneys: Tuberculosis Par. 9 Prescriptions: Calcidin: Tuberculosis Par. 3 : Honey: Cough Par. 5--8 : Horehound: Par. 5--8 : Ipecac Syrup: Par. 5--8 : Rhubarb, Syrup of: Par. 5--8 : Syrup, Squill: Par. 5--8 : Water, Distilled: Par. 5--8 TUBERCULOSIS : General Par. 9 BACKGROUND OF READING 591-2 M ADULT B1. See 591-1 on 6/22/34 for advanced tuberculosis. B2. 9/2/34 Landlady friend Mrs. [593] submitted questions. TEXT OF READING 591-2 M ADULT This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at his home on Arctic Crescent, Virginia Beach, Va., this 7th day of September, 1934. 1. EC: Yes. Not so good just now. We have had this before. 2. Still we find those tendencies for fever, and the breaking of cellular tissue in the lungs. 3. We would use Calcidin in the present condition; a grain tablet taken two or three times a day. 4. We would continue with the deep inhalations of the fumes from brandy. If this cannot be obtained, you can get plenty bootleg whiskey! THIS we would use rather in hot water; that is, pour a tablespoonful in a quart of boiling water and inhale the fumes from same. This will be much better than taking it by drinking it! 5. And for an expectorant (for there is the tendency for this), we would prepare a compound as follows: 6. To 16 ounces of distilled water we would add 2 ounces of Horehound, preferably in the dried (Yes, you can get it at Greene's!) [Greene Drug Co., B'ham, Ala.]. Steep by slow boiling until when drained off there is about 8 ounces left, you see, from the Horehound solution.



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7. Then, to the 8 ounces we would add, while still hot but not boiling: Strained Honey...........................2 ounces, and shaken well together, Syrup of Ipecac..........................1 dram, Syrup of Squill........................1/2 ounce, Syrup of Rhubarb.........................2 drams. Shake this together and take about a teaspoonful. It would be necessary to add alcohol as a preservative, of course, which would be about three ounces of same. Take a teaspoonful about three or four times a day, or when the coughing is severe. 8. That this will make for an activity of the kidneys may be expected, but it will cleanse and not irritate same. 9. The greater destructive force from tuberculosis IS the kidneys and the liver. 10. We are through for the present. REPORTS OF READING 591-2 M ADULT R1. 11/2/34 Mrs. [593]'s ltr.: Birmingham, Ala. Mr. Edgar Cayce; Dear Friend; At last I have the inclination to write to you, and tell you about Mr. [591], as well as myself. [See 593-1 Reports.] I got busy, and have followed all of the orders that you sent me in regard to Mr. [591], and for a while he really did wonderful, but now for the last week he has been very ill, he is running temperature every day, and and has gone down terribly, he has lost about 10 lbs. lately, and has become so despondent, and has given up most of the treatment. He is very weak, and is really a very sick man, so I will await word from you as to what to do now, he is still with me, and I think that he has decided to stay here from now on, so if it is not asking too much will you please let me know just what to do now. He is coughing very little, but the fever has make [made] him feel that he just cannot eat, and so has given that up, then he cannot sleep at nite, and he does not sleep in the day time, but he rests a great deal. He is on the bed most all the time, could it be the change in the weather? I am enclosing two dollars, which will cover us for some time don't know just how long, but I am sure that your book-keeper will know then I am enclosing $3.00 more as a love gift for the work or you which ever one is right, you are to be the judge, as you have been more than wonderful to us both, and you will never know just how much we appreciate it all... God bless and yours, is our prayer. R2. 11/8/34 See 591-3.



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INDEX OF READING 591-3 M ADULT Diet: Acidity & Alkalinity: Tuberculosis Par. 6 Electrotherapy: Violet Ray: Tuberculosis Par. 5 Inhalants: Apple Brandy Fumes: Tuberculosis Par. 4 : Balsam, Canadian: Par. 3, 9 : Benzoin, Tincture of: Par. 3, 9 : Croup Cup: Par. 3, 9 : Eucalyptus, Oil of: Par. 3, 9 : Turp, Rectified Oil of: Par. 3, 9 Prescriptions: Benzoin Tincture: Tuberculosis Par. 10 : Calcidin: Par. 7 : Creosote, Rectified: Par. 10 : Eucalyptus, Oil of: Par. 10 : Honey: Par. 10 : Olive Oil: Par. 10 : Saffron Tea: Par. 10 TUBERCULOSIS BACKGROUND OF READING 591-3 M ADULT B1. See 591-2 on 9/7/34 for advanced tuberculosis. B2. 11/2/34 Landlady friend Mrs. [593] submitted questions, saying he was better for a while but now in bad shape and not following any of the treatment which had been previously outlined. TEXT OF READING 591-3 M ADULT This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at The Hirn home, 6844 Nansen St., Forest Hills, Long Island, N. Y., this 8th day of November, 1934. 2. Conditions have gotten rather serious with this body, through the lack of cooperation in following consistently those applications that have been made. While there have been improvements in some directions, there is again the live activative force of the tubercle in the lungs that produces the temperature in the body. 3. Hence we find there should be used in the present these combinations, in a very heavy manner: (As an inhalant) Tincture of Benzoin...........1/4 ounce, Oil of Eucalyptus.............1/4 ounce, Rectified Oil of Turp..........20 minims, Canadian Balsam................10 minims. Put this either in the croup cup or in boiling water and inhale deeply; that is, put about a teaspoonful in the boiling water and inhale the fumes, two or three times each day.



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4. Also we would inhale the fumes from the apple brandy. 5. And we would continue those stimulations that have been indicated for the areas of the lower portion of the lungs, on the cerebro-spinal system; with also the relaxing in the upper cervical area of the tendons. 6. Do not attempt to OVERFEED the body, but keep the diet MORE to the alkalin; and we will bring the better conditions for the body. 7. The rest of the applications - as in the Calcidin and the other eliminants that have been indicated - should be maintained. 8. And we will seal the lungs such as to produce less and less effectiveness of the tubercle; thus gradually reducing the temperature. 9. Then, if the deep inhalants as given above begins to lose its effectiveness, we would take these properties INTERNALLY in the system - preferably in capsule: 10. To 1 minim (drop) of Honey, add: Oil of Eucalyptus...............1 minim, Rectified Creosote............1/2 minim, Tincture of Benzoin...........1/2 minim. This should be taken in capsule, and will make for the relaxing of the respiratory system and make for the reduction of temperature, but DO NOT take more than one capsule of such each day; for naturally such natures become hard upon the digestive system - but if there will be taken plenty of the Olive Oil and the Saffron tea that we have indicated for the digestion, these will be cared for in this system, [591]. We are through with this reading. REPORTS OF READING 591-3 M ADULT R1. 3/25/35 Mrs. [593]'s ltr.: Birmingham, Ala. Mr. Edgar Cayce; It has been a very long time since I have written to you... but as the change was so long in really showing up, that I just did not write, but now I can tell you that our friend Mr. [591] is well on the road to recovery, and we are so happy and OH SO THANKFUL to God and you for the wonderful work that you have done for him, he is now able to be up and about, also goes out into the yard and has put on his clothes, and seems to be just like his own dear self, and has lost most of the fear that possessed him. R2. 10/29/35 Mrs. [593]'s ltr.: Mr. [591] is still with us, and in about the same condition. We have tried a new system of treatment for the stomach ailment that afflicted him, and it resulted in much good: he is now able to eat almost anything he wishes, and has no trouble afterward. He still coughs a great deal, and raises considerable mucus, and runs a slight temperature each evening. He was persuaded to try the new Pathoclast treatment by a Dr. Kesslar [A. H. Kesslar, D.C.] who claims to be quite successful in its manipulation, and who offered to treat Mr. [591] without charge, which was very good of him. As yet, we see but little results from the treatment, but perhaps in time, these prayed for results will come. Chronic T.B. in man of Mr. [591]'s age is really hard to overcome, and he thinks it will probably be best to return to Veterans Hospital and remain until it ends one way or another. However, as he has some extra expenses and the



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Veterans Administration reduces his pension below the point of actual expense when he is hospitalized, he will not go until it seems to be the only thing to do. R3. 11/29/35 Mrs. [593]'s letter: Mr. [591] has been confined to the bed now for four weeks, he is loosing ground very fast, it seems that he just gives way ever so often, and then he is a real care for me... R4. 6/23/37 "Our beloved friend and brother, Mr. [591], went away on Feb. 8th. He suffered so the last few weeks that it was a relief to see him go, and while we miss him so, we are glad that he has gotten out of that body, and know that all is well."



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INDEX OF READING 1045-1 F 37 Ash: Animated: Tuberculosis Par. 11--13 Diet: Tuberculosis Par. 21-A Electrotherapy: Ultra-Violet Light: Green Glass: Tuberculosis Par. 12--14 Intestines: Colonics: Petrolagar Par. 8--10 : Salt & Soda Par. 8--10 NERVOUS SYSTEMS: INCOORDINATION Osteopathy: Eliminations Par. 15 Physiotherapy: Packs: Benzoin, Compound Tincture of: Tuberculosis Par. 18, 19 : Camphor: Par. 18, 19 : Mutton Tallow: Par. 18, 19 : Turpentine: Par. 18, 19 Prescriptions: Cinnamon Water: Nausea Par. 17 : Limewater: Par. 17 : Potassium Bromide: Par. 17 : Potassium Iodide: Par. 17 TUBERCULOSIS TUMORS BACKGROUND OF READING 1045-1 F 37 B1. 10/31/35 Husband [1745]'s letter: "She is confined to bed in a serious condition, so will be ready any hour on any day." TEXT OF READING 1045-1 F 37 This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at his home on Arctic Crescent, Virginia Beach, Va., this 4th day of November, 1935. 1. EC: Yes. Now, as we find, there ARE disturbing conditions. These arise from accumulations that produce the segregation of forces, that should have been eliminated, into pockets; or into forms that make pressure in the system. 2. The conditions are rather serious, as we find in the present. While these cause a great deal of pain, we find that this may be relieved in the immediate if there are set up the drainages through the system. These should be of varied natures



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(the drainages), meeting the varied conditions or disturbances with the body - as we shall see. 3. These, then, are the conditions as we find them with this body, [1045] we are speaking of: 4. THE BLOOD SUPPLY indicates how there is the tendency for the separations in the system, owing to poisons and toxic forces that accumulate from pressures in portions of the body that hinder in the eliminations through the alimentary canal; making for inflammation that produces a temperature through INTERNAL portions of the body. Though these make for quick changes at times in the system, these must be taken into consideration in making the applications for helpful forces or means. 5. IN THE NERVOUS FORCES OF THE BODY, the natural tendency is a separation here also. Or there is the inability for the body to CONTROL the activities of the nervous forces through pressures created in various portions of the system. And these make for periods when there is the unrest, or those activities where the cerebrospinal and the sympathetic or vegetative forces are not coordinating in carrying impulses through the system. 6. Hence we have those attending conditions in the activities of the superficial circulation in areas where distresses are shown in the outer portion of body, in the discoloration and the effect as produced in the internal forces, and the pressures upon the ORGANS THEMSELVES OF THE BODY. 7. Then, in meeting the needs as we find in the immediate future: 8. First, we would begin with high colonic irrigations. This will necessitate being done two or three times in two or three days, you see; not too great a quantity at first, but this will reduce and allay much of the disturbing factors. This should be of the COLONIC irrigation nature, and with not just high enemas, see? Use for same the soda and saline solution, in the proportions of about a tablespoonful of baking soda to a gallon of tepid water and a level teaspoonful of table salt. 9. In the last solution used (or rinse water) put a tablespoonful of ALKALIN Petrolagar to the gallon of water, see? The water would be lukewarm. And keep stirred. 10. Give one such irrigation one day, one the next day, and one the third day; or two may be given the first day, until we bring relief to the pressure areas. 11. Begin was early as possible with the Animated Ash to make for the activity of more oxygen in the blood; one-eighth grain TWICE a day. Empty the powder dry on tongue and wash down with water; DO NOT take IN the capsule. One dose would be taken in the morning and the other in the afternoon. 12. Five to six minutes after the evening dose of ash is given (which would be around four-thirty or five o'clock in the afternoon), use the ULTRA-Violet Ray. Not the violet ray, but the ULTRA Violet. This would preferably be the Cooper-Hewitt or the Mercury Vapor Light, and would be at least thirty-eight to forty-two inches from the body; but should be applied over the lower portion of the cervical and upper portion of the dorsal area (along the spine) for about a minute and a half to two minutes - after it is full strength, you see. 13. This would only be given once a day, you see (and would not be given following the dose of Ash given in the morning), following the eighth-grain of Ash



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taken in the afternoon. The morning dose of the Ash should be taken without the light. 14. DO NOT allow these applications to become too severe, or to make for burns. If necessary use a green shade or light, or green glass between the Ultra-Violet and the body; this would be about an equal distance between the body and the light itself. This would shade sufficient to be helpful in the vibrations as created from or between the Ultra-Violet and the green rays. The glass that is used between should preferably be the plate glass, a quarter to half an inch thick. 15. In the same periods there should be the manipulation given OSTEOPATHICALLY, that will produce the setting up of drainages from the upper portion of the dorsal area, that will be activative through the whole of eliminating system. 16. These should be kept. 17. We would use that combination which we have given for the producing of a reduction of nausea in the system; that is: Limewater............................1 ounce, Cinnamon Water.......................1 ounce, 10% solution Iodide of Potassium....20 minims, 10% solution Bromide of Potassium...40 minims. Shake the solution well before the dose is taken, which would be a teaspoonful (in half a glass of water or just plain, whichever is desired by the body); and may be taken two or three hours apart. This is ONLY to reduce or to keep down nausea; and those strainings that arise from inflammation that comes to the stomach itself, preventing the eliminations being carried on properly. 18. Also occasionally, over the abdominal area or those areas where there are excruciating pains at times, it would be well to use flannels (two or three thicknesses) that are well-greased or dipped in a solution of equal parts: Mutton Tallow Spirits of Turpentine Spirits of Camphor Compound Tincture of Benzoin Equal parts, but added in the order named. Keep this solution hot, or put on the flannels warm and use an electric pad. 19. Do these for the body for the next ten days, and then we would give further instructions. 20. Ready for questions. 21. (Q) What advice regarding diet or nourishment? (A) Fresh grape juice (squeezed from fresh grapes), orange juice, grapefruit juice, or such. Fruit juices are preferable. Gradually there may be added the semi-liquids, as steel cut oats cooked well done, beef juices - gradually. All of these should NOT be given in swallows or gulps, but SIPPED rather. Do this for the present. We are through for the present. (See letters [which were enclosed] with directions to Hydrotherapist, Electrotherapists AND Osteopath. It may be that you can get all three modes of treatment from an Osteopath; or at least the Ultra-Violet AND the osteopathic manipulations, while you might have to get a nurse or a naturopathic physician to give the colonics. But please stress ALL being given as indicated.



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See copy of letter [which was enclosed] explaining Animated Ash and where obtained. Knowing there would be some delay, we took the liberty of wiring to Mr. Bradley to send it to you immediately; so it should be there by the time you receive this. Let us know when you have followed the treatments as suggested for ten days. We will be in Detroit then, so you can reach us through Mrs. [1100]. I hope you can get started at once with the treatment, and that it is not too late. Please let us hear. GD.) REPORTS OF READING 1045-1 F 37 R1. 11/17/35 Husband [1745]'s letter: ..., Texas Mr. Edgar Cayce Detroit, Michigan Dear Mr. Cayce: My wife received the ninth treatment today; tomorrow she will have had the tenth. After the tenth treatment you were to send further instructions. We have an Osteopathic Doctor [Julius McBride, D.O.] who is following instructions very closely, he reports: The manipulations in the dorsal area is scattering the toxemia throughout the system, causing temperature to raise to 101 to 102 degrees daily. - Steady aches in chest. Weak voice (due to affected throat). Generally speaking, patient is in worse condition at this time than before starting treatment; but specifically this condition would follow this treatment until these poisons could be eliminated through proper channels. We are very anxious to receive further instructions shortly. R2. 11/21/35 See 1045-2. Mrs. [1100] was present for this rdg. and told us Mrs. [1045]'s case was one of advanced tuberculosis.



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INDEX OF READING 1045-2 F 37 Diet: Temperature: Fever Par. 13, 14, 17, 22-A Inhalants: Croup Cup: Tuberculosis Par. 9 : Eucalyptus, Oil of: Par. 9 : Pine Needles Oil: Par. 9 Intestines: Colonics: Glyco-Thymoline Par. 21-A : Salt & Soda Par. 21-A : Toxemia Par. 7, 11, 21-A Osteopathy: Temperature: Fever Par. 16, 20-A Physiotherapy: Massage: Alcohol, Grain: Tuberculosis Par. 5, 10, 12 : Packs: Camphor: Par. 8, 15 : Grape: Par. 4, 5, 10 : Hot Salt: Par. 8, 15 : Mutton Tallow: Par. 8, 15 : Turpentine: Par. 8, 15 Temperature: Fever: Tuberculosis Par. 5, 12, 21-A TUBERCULOSIS BACKGROUND OF READING 1045-2 F 37 B1. See 1045-1 on 11/4/35. TEXT OF READING 1045-2 F 37 This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at the Warshawsky home, 3046 Webb Avenue, Detroit, Michigan, this 21st day of November, 1935. 1. EC: Yes, we have the body here, [1045]; this we have had before. 2. As we find, while the conditions have apparently become more aggravated, this is rather a dissemination of the poisons through the system. 3. Now, as we find, WITH the manipulations (for these have been VERY well done), we would add these: 4. First begin with the grape poultice over the abdominal area. Fresh crushed grapes, preferably the Concord variety. These poultices, as we find, should be given almost throughout the day - the present day. Change the poultice about every hour, or hour and a half, or whenever the poultice becomes very warm from the body-heat. Let the poultice be at least half an inch thick between cloths that allow absorption.



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5. Massage or stimulate the lumbar and lower dorsal area, or throughout the dorsal area, with the pure grain alcohol; that there may be a reduction of the temperature. And this will coordinate with the acids absorbed by the body from the grapes. 6. These should be begun at once. 7. And in the evening we would begin with the colonic irrigations, that the toxic forces which are tending to make for such an irritation in the superficial circulation may be the more eliminated through the alimentary canal. Also the addition of the massage, of course, across this area will tend to make for greater eliminations through the kidneys themselves. 8. Stimulate those areas through the chest and over the lower portion of the lungs, so that the congestions there, the lymph flow through these, the tendencies for the soft tissue in the head and face, may be cleansed; by using the hot applications of an equal combination of Mutton Suet, Turpentine and Spirits of Camphor. But when the solution is massaged into the body, apply over same (or rather than massaging same, put it on as a hot application, and then apply over same) the hot salt packs - or bags of heated salt. And this will change the reaction. For this combination makes for a loosening of the congestions through these areas, allowing the activities that are given to the lower portion of the body to become then coordinated with the respiratory system. This will produce, as it were, an even greater foulness in the breath; the breathing of the body. 9. But in the room where there is the taking in of the breath, let there be the fumes breathed into the body from a croup cup or a kettle boiling. Into a gallon of the boiling water (or this proportion, whether using the kettle or the croup cup), put a teaspoonful of a solution made from equal parts of Tincture or Oil of Eucalyptus and Oil of Pine Needles. With this boiled in the room, the air then becomes such that when breathed it will make for a purifying of the tissue through the nostril, through the mouth, through the throat and into the lungs themselves. For these, then, will coordinate together. 10. First there should be given throughout the day, as indicated, the grape poultices and the alcohol rub - over the areas designated. 11. In the evening the colonic irrigations would be begun. 12. But the alcohol rubs along the small of the back and across the hips, for the stimulations, would be kept up for several days; until there is the ability for the ASSIMILATIONS - through the food values given - and the reduction of temperature. 13. Do not become overanxious as to the diet. Let the body have little fever before there is the attempt to give other than a liquid or a fruit juice diet. 14. Then we may begin with junket, arrowroot, and gradually build UP the system. 15. The applications across the chest and the back, over the lung area, of the combination of oils (or the spirits of turpentine and the spirits of camphor, that will be healing, and making for superficial activity) with the salt bags, should be kept for periods of two to three hours for three or four days; or until those CONGESTIONS have been removed.



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16. Carry these, then, in coordination throughout the body, and we will find the body should soon begin to improve; if these are kept nominally, with the manipulations kept for clearing the head of those pains that naturally arise from the intense temperatures at times. 17. When there is the desire for foods, have the broths from wild game, or lamb or fowl; preferably the wild game as much as possible. 18. Then we will find the body will gradually come to normalcy. 19. Ready for questions. 20. (Q) How often should the manipulations be given now, and over just what area? (A) These, as we find, during the period that these other applications are being made, should be at least once each day; or oftener if they are required for the producing of drainages along the ganglia, to act with all of the eliminating systems. 21. (Q) Just what solution should be used for the colonic irrigations? (A) Preferably the saline; NOT too much soda. Excess saline rather than soda; but use an antiseptic solution - as with Glyco-Thymoline - in the last water. There will be the necessity of at least an irrigation each day for two or three days. But this depends, to be sure, upon the ability to keep down the temperature. 22. (Q) During the present day and the next few days, just what nourishment or stimulation should be given? (A) Fruit juices or vegetable juices; not those that carry any grease. Do these, for the better conditions of this body, [1045]. 23. We are through with this reading. BEGIN IMMEDIATELY APPLYING AND CHANGING EVERY HOUR THROUGH TODAY HALF INCH CRUSHED FRESH CONCORD GRAPE POULTICE BETWEEN THIN CLOTHS OVER ABDOMINAL AREA MASSAGE LUMBAR DORSAL AREAS AND HIPS WITH PURE GRAIN ALCOHOL TO REDUCE TEMPERATURE THIS EVENING BEGIN WITH COLONICS USING MORE SALT THAN SODA IN SOLUTION AND GLYCOTHYMOLINE IN LAST WATER STIMULATE DRAINAGES OSTEOPATHICALLY HOT APPLICATION EQUAL COMBINATION MUTTON TALLOW TURPENTINE AND SPIRITS CAMPHOR OVER CHEST BACK AND LUNG AREA USING HEATED SALT IN BAGS OVER SAME FOR THREE HOURS DAILY TO REMOVE CONGESTIONS ADD TEASPOONFUL SOLUTION EQUAL PARTS OIL OF EUCALYPTUS AND OIL OF PINE NEEDLES TO GALLON OF BOILING WATER IN CROUP CUP OR KETTLE SO FUMES ARE INHALED GIVE ONLY FRUIT JUICES AND VEGETABLE JUICES PREPARED WITHOUT GREASE AS NOURISHMENT FULL INFORMATION MAILED. [1100] Paid - REPORTS OF READING 1045-2 F 37 R1. 12/5/35 Husband [1745]'s letter to EC: ..., Texas Mr. Edgar Cayce, Detroit, Mich. Dear Mr. Cayce:



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We are very anxious to follow treatments according to your direction; and would like to keep in direct touch with you [for] some interpretations of instructions which we do not quite understand. We began second treatment immediately upon receipt of wire from Mrs. [1100]. Unable to get Concord grapes for poultices. We used the large Tokay variety. The doctor gave two colonics and said that was sufficient, as the trouble seemed to be higher and that the colon was clean. He is giving the osteopathic manipulations DAILY. Occasionally room is filled with vapor from Oil of Pine Needles and Oil of Eucalyptus. Results: Patient now running high temperature daily, raising at night. Tonight 103 degrees. Very sore place, terribly tight soreness in right side just below the ribs and reaching to the pit of stomach - pretty sore in chest. Severe coughing spells with nausea. The prescribed solution checks this nausea. The patient continued on fruit and vegetable juices for five days and then added soft non-fibrous diet. Her eyes are bad, with red swollen lids. Her throat is not quite as sore as it was, but still some trouble with vocal chords or larynx. Now we are worried for fear that we have not interpreted instructions correctly. Should we have continued with the Animated Ash and Ultra Violet Rays in addition to poultices and hot salt packs? Should vapor from solution of Oil of Pine Needles and Eucalyptus be kept in room constantly or just occasionally? Perhaps we are over anxious and expect greater results than are possible. You can perhaps understand our mental attitude when I tell you that my wife has been in THIS serious condition since January 1935, following treatment by a Health Doctor whose treatment consisted of Heat baths, massage, and raw fruit and vegetable diet. I believe my wife can get well by following prescribed treatment by you; I only wish that we were able to be in some place where you could watch and direct this treatment. Hoping that you will not misunderstand us, and that we will hear from you soon, I am Very truly yours [1745] R2. 12/11/35 See 1045-3.



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INDEX OF READING 1045-3 F 37 Ash: Animated: Tuberculosis Par. 3, 13-A Diet: Tuberculosis Par. 10 Electrotherapy: Ultra-Violet Light: Green Glass: Tuberculosis Par. 3, 13-A Inhalants: Apple Brandy Fumes: Tuberculosis Par. 6--8 : Croup Cup: Par. 6, 7 : Eucalyptus, Oil of: Par. 14-A : Keg, Charred: Par. 8 : Pine Needles Oil: Par. 14-A Intestines: Enemas: Tuberculosis Par. 14-A Osteopathy: Eliminations Par. 5, 16-A Physiotherapy: Packs: Grape: Tuberculosis Par. 14-A, 15-A : Rubdowns: Alcohol, Grain: Temperature: Fever Par. 17-A Temperature: Fever: Tuberculosis Par. 3, 4, 17-A TUBERCULOSIS BACKGROUND OF READING 1045-3 F 37 B1. See 1045-2 on 11/21/35. TEXT OF READING 1045-3 F 37 This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at the Dayton- Biltmore, Dayton, Ohio, this 11th day of December, 1935. 2. Due to the anxieties and excitements, the conditions have become rather exaggerated - even under the stresses that have existed. 3. As we find in the present, it would be well, then, that the Ash and the lights be used; that more oxygen may be had for the circulation, else the temperature will become of such a nature as to become more and more destructive especially to the kidney and liver circulation. 4. Owing to the very nature of the condition or the temperature through the lung area itself, naturally there is the lack of the blood supply. 5. Hence the manipulations should be to stimulate the flow of the circulation through the liver, the kidneys, or through the hepatic circulation; treating the body there.



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6. We find that the keeping of the fumes burned in the room, as has been indicated, would be the most beneficial. 7. Also we find that the inhaling of the fumes from apple brandy would be most beneficial. For THIS particular condition in the immediate, it would be best that such fumes be from putting at least a tablespoonful of pure apple brandy in a quantity (say two tablespoonful) of very hot water (as in a croup cup) and allow the fumes or the vapor to be inhaled. In this manner (with the water in same) it will supply to the mucous membranes, to the lungs, to the throat, a moisture that would be most helpful for the body. 8. Later, if the responses come from these, if there is the ability to keep down the breaking of tissue through hemorrhage, then we would use the apple brandy in a charred keg - that would be kept where evaporation would be rather fast; and the smoke or fumes of same inhaled into the lungs. The fumes, the gas; not the brandy itself. When used in this manner, later, the brandy would NOT be put in water, but use half a gallon in a gallon or gallon and a half charred container, but corked so that it does not escape - and keep close to warmth so that the evaporation takes place. 9. These, with those suggestions that have been indicated, we would keep. 10. As to the diet, we would keep those as indicated, adding beef juice and - for the sweets - honey, or any of the whole wheat cereals. But ALL should be given in a VERY small quantity. 11. These are the better, as we find. 12. Ready for questions. 13. (Q) What should be the dosage of the Ash in the present and how often? (A) An eighth of a grain every other day, followed by the light - as ever indicated for such a disturbance. 14. (Q) Should the vapors from the Oil of Pine Needles and Eucalyptus be kept in the room constantly, or occasionally? (A) WELL that these be kept, not too much of same all the time. For the fumes of Pine and Eucalyptus are HEALING, as well as non-irritating to the lung and throat. Keep the poultice, but get the Concord and not the other grapes. If the Concord grapes cannot be secured, then use the seedless white grapes; though the SEED in the Concord grapes are those that take away the inflammation the most. Necessary that eliminations be kept, even though an enema be used each day; for there should be a movement every day. If there is not a natural movement, then use the enema. 15. (Q) How often should the poultice be used? (A) Whenever there is pain across the abdomen. 16. (Q) What may be done for the swollen eyelids? (A) This condition may be relieved by the pressure on the spine to set up drainages from the system. Let this pressure or manipulation extend, then, to the upper cervical area.



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17. (Q) What will reduce the temperature? (A) Those that have been indicated should reduce the temperature. A little bathing with grain alcohol will reduce same. But the temperature is necessary with such inflammation. Reduce by the use, then, of GRAIN alcohol along the spine. We are through with this reading. [Western Union Day Letter, collect, as follows]: Use Ash and light with grain alcohol rub along spine for temperature. Continue entire suggestions, using only Concord or seedless white grapes. Also inhale fumes from pure apple brandy with hot water in croup cup. Add small quantities beef juice, whole wheat cereal, honey. Osteopathic stimulations through hepatic circulation and upper cervicals. REPORTS OF READING 1045-3 F 37 R1. 12/13/35 Mrs. [1100]'s letter: "The check reading came today and thank you so much for taking this for us and for sending the copy. I think it is very clear. Surely wish it was possible to get some concord grapes. I wired the Chamber of Commerce in Concord, Mass. this afternoon and asked if they knew of any firm with any available. Thought perhaps someone had some in refrigeration. So far have not had a reply and if they cannot locate any am going to wire the Welch grape juice people, as their grape juice is made of concord grapes..." R2. 1/1/36 Husband's letter to EC: ..., Texas Dear Mr. Cayce: We received your letter and are glad to know that you are taking a personal interest in our case. Of course my sister, Mrs. [1100] assured us of your personal interests, but not having heard from you other than thru the readings, I supposed that it was over enthusiasm on her part, however, we are just as enthusiastic as she is, and are eager to follow instructions to the letter; but we are handicapped in not being able to have a nurse. Outside of the doctor’s visits we have to depend on our boys (who go to school) and a house girl, of which we have to hire a different one every week or so, to administer to Mrs. [1045]'s needs. We realize that Mrs. [1045] is in a very serious condition and needs all the attention possible, and it will be hard to report her condition to you every few days unless I just say that she seems about the same. The doctor says that her general condition is better, that her back is firmer and better, that her blood supply is increasing, but specific conditions still exist and are hard to determine whether or not there are any improvement. Namely: Stomach very sore, with 5 to 8 stools per day, very soupy or spongy with mucous. Unable to take fruit juices as prescribed - but today procured some pure Concord grape juice (pasteurized) that does not seem to upset her stomach. Throat: Larynx inflamed and throat sore and hoarse. This condition caused coughing spells that racked her body and lungs so, that the doctor becoming alarmed, for fear of hemorrhage, administered "Oil of Almonds" to the larynx which gives temporary relief. Advise as to the use of this oil.



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Rest: She does not rest at all at night - she sleeps not more than 30 minutes at a time and then lies awake, dozes off again for 30 minutes or so and then awakes again, this condition continues through the night and then no or very little sleep during the day. While she was under treatment of "M.D.'s" they gave her "Bromides" which upset her stomach, and did more harm than good, and never produced sleep. I think this report covers her condition, so I will close hoping to hear from you occasionally. Wishing you and yours a very happy and prosperous coming year, I am Very truly yours, [1745] R3. 1/10/36 EC's letter to [1745]: Dear Mr. [1745]: Thanks for yours of the 1st, and for giving the report as you have - think I can have a fellow feeling for you, Mr. [1745], for as I told you before just such a condition as your wife has is the same my wife had some years ago and was the first thing to convince me there might be something in the suggestions given in these readings, it is hard for anyone that has never met another to even imagine any one giving information of value for someone they have never seen and too that one not knowing what is being said at the time, but suppose Mrs. [1100] has explained all that to you. That the Dr. feels Mrs. [1045]'s gen [general] condition is better is at least hopeful, for the trouble as I have experienced it is a very insidious condition one hard to deal with, and when the patient is the most hopeful she may be at her worst, but assure you my interest is just to be of help if possible and if you were to have a reading every week or so it would not be too much and please don't think I am trying to run up a bill on you or anyone else just want to try and help if possible, so if you would have the Dr. write me and let him submit the questions from week to week we might get the cooperation in that way that might do a lot of good, we have had some very serious conditions of this nature during the last 35 years that I have been doing this work and many, many of them have testified they have gotten help. So suppose you suggest this to the Dr. I don't want to presume on my part nor presume as to telling the Dr. what he should do, but just want to help if possible. And you write also whenever you have the opportunity for you seeing her from day to day may be able to see something the Dr. does not. Hoping then for the best and trusting that I may be privileged to be the channel for a great deal of good for your wife. With kindest regards to you and yours, Sincerely, Edgar Cayce R4. 1/17/36 See 1045-4.



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INDEX OF READING 1045-4 F 38 Ash: Animated: Tuberculosis Par. 3 Doctors: McBride, Julius: D.O. Reports Electrotherapy: Ultra-Violet Light: Green Glass: Tuberculosis Par. 3 Feet: Warm: Tuberculosis Par. 6 Prescriptions: Calcidin: Tuberculosis Par. 5 Temperature: Fever: Tuberculosis Par. 7 TUBERCULOSIS BACKGROUND OF READING 1045-4 F 38 1/17/36 Husband's wire: "Higher temperature painful breathing request emergency reading." TEXT OF READING 1045-4 F 38 This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at his home on Arctic Crescent, Virginia Beach, Va., this 17th day of January, 1936. 1. EC: Yes, we have the body, [1045] - as yet. 2. Conditions are rather serious. 3. As we find, it would be well to give the Animated Ash each day, with the Violet Ray immediately following same - for a minute, minute and a half; not longer. 4. Do not overtax the body. 5. We would prepare a solution by dissolving five (5) grains of Calcidin in three (3) ounces of distilled water. Keep same warm and covered. Every hour or hour and a half give half to a teaspoonful, until there is the full iodine reaction. 6. We would keep the feet warmer. Massage them some, that the circulation may be kept. 7. And, as we find, these offer in the present the greater chances for the reduction of the fever, the easing of the tenseness in the lung - and prevention of breaking of tissue. This may not hold; but these offer the greater opportunities - now. 8. We are through for the present. DAY LETTER - as follows: ANIMATED ASH DAILY, FOLLOWED IMMEDIATELY WITH VIOLET RAY NOT LONGER THAN MINUTE AND HALF. DISSOLVE FIVE GRAINS CALCIDIN IN THREE OUNCEDS DISTILLED WATER AND KEEP WARM AND COVERED.



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GIVE HALF TO TEASPOONFUL EVERY HOUR OR HOUR AND HALF UNTIL FULL IODINE REACTION. KEEP FEET WARMER. MASSAGE THEM TO KEEP CIRCULATION. REPORTS OF READING 1045-4 F 38 R1. 1/19/36 Husband's letter to EC: Sunday Night Dear Mr. Cayce: We received your wire, and started with the Calcidin Saturday morning - By night she had some relief - This AM she had 100.2 degree temperature - But tonight her temp. is rising again and her breathing is becoming painful again - and today she had difficulty in voiding urine - I don't know whether or not it was due to the Calcidin solution. We are unable to learn from druggist just what or when full iodine reaction occurs, and don't know whether to give more than the 3 ounces of the solution or not - one druggist assured me there was no danger in taking too much as the solution was not poisonous or harmful. We are very anxious to have you keep in touch with us each week and to direct the treatment through your readings - and each Sunday we will send you a report on her condition - or rather you can select any day of the week to give this reading and not wait for our report. She is a very very sick person at this time, but tomorrow morning I'll have another 5 grains of Calcidin dissolved in 3 oz. distilled water and continue on with this treatment until I hear from you. Enclosed please find letter from Dr. McBride as to Mrs. [1045]'s condition as he see's it. With kind regards and best wishes, I am Very truly yours, [1745] R2. 1/19/36 Dr. McBride's letter to EC: Sunday Dear Mr. Cayce: Thanks for your commendations upon our work with Mrs. [1045]. We have tried to follow the suggestions as faithfully as possible. As to Mrs. [1045]'s condition. 1. Her general appearance is very much better. 2. She does not have the terrible paroxysms of coughing which used to rack her body at night and in the morning. 3. We have stopped the hemorrhoidal bleeding which was depleting her vitality to a marked degree. 4. The abdominal pain of which she used to complain so bitterly has been much improved though she still maintains that there is some soreness in the Hepatic flexure of the colon. 5. She does not complain as much as much of soreness in her larynx - and her voice is not so husky. HOWEVER her temperature still remains high - almost every day over 100.5 degrees and most days about 101 degrees & some times reaching 103 degrees F.



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She does not rest - nor sleep and one hesitates to recommend opiates, and she is still extremely weak. The problems that face us now in her case seem to be mainly two. Rest and nourishment. If we can obtain rest for her and adequate nourishment, I can see no reason why she should not proceed to complete recovery. The only difficulty in obtaining nourishment for her is that she cannot tolerate anything but an extremely bland and low residue diet. Yours respectfully, Julius McBride D.O. R3. 1/22/36 See 1045-5.



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INDEX OF READING 1045-5 F 38 Appliances: Radio-Active: Insomnia Par. 7-A Ash: Animated: Tuberculosis Par. 2 Diet: Beef Juice: Tuberculosis Par. 4 : Tuberculosis Par. 4 : Yogurt Par. 5 Doctors: McBride, Julius: D.O. Reports Electrotherapy: Ultra-Violet Light: Green Glass Par. 2 Prescriptions: Calcidin Par. 2 TUBERCULOSIS TEXT OF READING 1045-5 F 38 This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at his home on Arctic Crescent, Virginia Beach, Va., this 22nd day of January, 1936. 1. EC: Yes, we have the body here; this we have had before. 2. As we find, some conditions show an improvement. We would not let up on the use of the Ash and the Lights, or upon the use of the Calcidin - taken still in the manner that has been indicated. 3. We would be mindful that there are the proper eliminations kept as near as possible. 4. For the assimilations, we find that beef juices sipped every few minutes (not drunk, but sipped), with whole wheat wafers, would be helpful; as also would the Arrowroot Biscuit, or Popcorn Wafers, or the varied forms of Junket. 5. And we would procure, as soon as possible, the Yogurt as prepared in the tablet form from Kellogg Sanitarium. This would prevent, in its activity through the system, the colon and through the intestinal tract, the formation of bacilli by the non-activity of the lactic forces through the eliminating channels. 6. Keep up the rest of those things indicated. Do that. 7. (Q) How may the body have more rest? (A) We would use the Radio-Active Appliance. Keep the anodes clear. Keep the attachments very secure, plenty of ice; but give this for an hour or two hours at a time, each day, preferably at the periods when the body DESIRES to rest. Attach same on opposite extremities, to be sure. And a gentle massage at the time for rest, even with the Appliance attached, will aid the body in being rested from lying so long, or from the few positions in which it is able to move itself. 8. We are through for the present.



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REPORTS OF READING 1045-5 F 38 R1. 1/24/36 EC's letter to Mr. [1745]: Dear Mr. [1745]: -

I appreciate your letter of the 19th, as well as your being able to get Dr. McBride to write; and I trust that we may indeed be of real help to Mrs. [1045].

As I told you before, we've had a number of cases that were evidently just as serious as Mrs. [1045]'s case; and where we have been able to obtain the wholehearted cooperation of the physician in charge, most wonderful results have come.

Of course, we never know; we cannot promise anything. We can only hope and pray that the applications suggested will prove to be just that needed to enable the divine within to awaken the constructive forces to activity within the body. For, after all, we know that the REAL healing - the only healing - must come from within. The outward applications are merely aids, or means used to bring the awakening - in all the vital cell forces, such as to renew and rebuild the body.

Please let us hear every week, as you suggest, and we will be glad to check up on the condition each time we hear from you.

With kindest personal regards and best wishes to you and yours, and asking to be remembered to Mrs. [1045], I am Sincerely,. EC: GD [EC also wrote a similar letter to Dr. McBride.] R2. 1/25/36 Mrs. [1100]'s letter: "The copy of the last check reading came today and I am so happy that some improvement has been shown in my sister-in-law's condition and I know you are, also.... Please have Gladys at the next writing to them, include the ingredients for massage to prevent bed-sores, or have the question asked at the next check reading..." R3. 1/26/36 Dr. McBride's letter to EC: ..., Texas Dear Mr. Cayce:

Thanks for your reading which came a day or so ago. Mrs. [1045] continues to improve every way except in strength. Her temperature has not risen to the same degree that it has been doing, and moreover the calcidin has been a decided success.

If we can get Mrs. [1045] to rest - and be able to assimilate nourishment she will undoubtedly continue to make progress.

However, the condition is still very serious in my judgement. Even such a thing as a strip of crisp bacon throws her into a paroxysm of abdominal pain which lasts for days. Of course we have warned her against this sort of food in the future.

One does not understand the use of the Radioactive machine, but doubtless instructions will accompany it. We will use it as conscientiously as possible. The problems which confront us is in dealing with Mrs. [1045] remain. 1. Her temperature. 2. Her inability to rest. 3. Her inability to eat. Yours respectfully, Julius McBride, D.O. 401 1/2 W. 19th St. ..., Texas



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R4. 1/26/36 Husband's letter to EC: Dear Mr. Cayce:

There is nothing that I can add to Dr. McBride's letter with the exception of the varying of her temperature - at present, 5: 30 p.m., she has 103 degrees, this probably will come down soon, and then rise again. She is in a very depressing mood this afternoon, too weak or sick to take interest in anything.

Tomorrow, as soon as I can get P.O. Money Order, I am going to send for the Radio Active Appliance, which I hope to receive before the end of this coming week.

I hope at next reading some decided improvements can be seen, and that she will soon be on the road to recovery.

With best wishes, I am [1745] Her treatment now consists Carbon Ash, ultra-violet rays - very few

Osteopathic manipulations - Oil of sweet Almonds applied to larynx, vapor from Apple Brandy - vapor from Oil of Pine needles - 1/2 teaspoonful of calcidin sol. every 1 1/2 hours (she complains this giving her headaches, so will let up on this until tomorrow a.m.)

If any change desired in this treatment - please advise in the next reading. Thanks, [1745]

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INDEX OF READING 1045-6 F 38 Ash: Animated: Tuberculosis Par. 7 Diet: Beef Juice: Tuberculosis Par. 9 : Food Preservatives Par. 11 : Tuberculosis Par. 9--11 Doctors: McBride, Julius: D.O. Reports Electrotherapy: Ultra-Violet Light: Green Glass Par. 7 Inhalants: Apple Brandy Fumes: Tuberculosis Par. 4 : Keg, Charred: Par. 4 Names: Organizations Mentioned: Libby's Par. 11 Osteopathy: Tuberculosis Par. 5, 6 Physiology & Anatomy: Inhalants Par. 4 Physiotherapy: Packs: Grape: Tuberculosis Par. 3 Prescriptions: Calcidin: Tuberculosis Par. 5 : Grape Juice: Par. 3 TUBERCULOSIS BACKGROUND OF READING 1045-6 F 38 B1. See 1045-5 on 1/22/36. TEXT OF READING 1045-6 F 38 This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at his home on Arctic Crescent, Virginia Beach, Va., this 5th day of February, 1936. 1. EC: Yes. While we find conditions still disturbing, there are those tendencies for an improvement in many respects. 2. While there have been changes suggested, and these in part (not in whole) have been made, we would not forget much of those things that have been indicated in the first - for changes to be wrought in the general physical activities for the body; as in these: 3. We find that the crushed grapes would still be well. Also we find that the juice of same would be most helpful to the body as a drink; but this should be taken in sips and not in gulps nor swallows.



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4. We would be more consistent with the use of the inhalations from the pure apple brandy in a charred container, inhaling the gas off of same. This will stimulate not only the appetite but will make for a helpfulness in the lungs and in the throat and in the general coordination between the circulatory forces of the lungs and liver and kidneys; also making for a greater strength for the body itself. Even a whiff two, three, four times a day will be found most helpful. 5. Keep the activities of the iodine and calcium (in the Calcidin); for these strengthen, of course, and add the abilities to the body for the better blood supply. However, this can be OVERDONE, to be sure; UNLESS there is kept - through the manipulative forces - an activity that will add, as it were, the necessary movements or activities of the body. 6. In giving the manipulative or osteopathic treatments and adjustments, then, let these in a greater part take the place of the physical or bodily exercises; that are, of course, so much needed when possible. 7. The use of the Ash with the ultra-violet will continue to make for a strengthening condition, by the releasing of oxygen in the system through the very active forces of these. 8. Keep ALL of these, in these directions. 9. More of the beef juice would be well. Do not put ANY fat, for this becomes hard upon the stomach. There has been allowed a little of this, through the tendons being left in same. Preferably use round steak or rump steak. This should be diced and put in a jar with NO water, NO FATS; almost sealed, and put on in either a double boiler or in a boiler (in the glass jar, you see), with a cloth or something to prevent the cracking of same. And ONLY use the JUICES that come from boiling this from two, three to four hours! The juice may be seasoned with a little salt to make it more palatable, but give in sips often - rather than in quantities. It will be very strengthening. It may be taken with the whole wheat crackers or toasted brown bread, or whole wheat bread. 10. Occasionally the WHOLE WHEAT cereal cooked for at least three to four hours, will be strengthening; but give only a tiny bit. This carries those vitamins necessary for combating the distressed conditions produced by strains upon the system. 11. Tomato juice in moderation may be taken; just little sips, will be most helpful. Preferably not just the canned juice, but the juice taken from the canned tomatoes - and not those canned with any preservative. Libby's is a good brand. 12. Do these. We are through with this reading. (GD's note: See extract [which was enclosed] from reading 988-9, Par. 4-A advising what to do for bed soreness.) REPORTS OF READING 1045-6 F 38 R1. 2/16/36 Dr. McBrides's letter to EC: Dear Mr. Cayce: Thanks for your nice letter last week regarding Mrs. [1045]. As according to your reading we had failed to give her osteopathic treatment we resumed these. However, the next day she had a sharp rise in temperature. This is of course an



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unfavorable sign, whereupon we decided to leave off the ultra violet for a day or two to see whether it was too much of a metabolic stimulant for her to take. Since then her temperature has fallen to 100.4 - 100.6 and this is so much of an improvement that we are all much heartened by it. She rests better, complains of less pain & is generally better. However, since you have allowed me some leeway in handling the case I have found it necessary to forbid her to eat much roughage, as it invariably causes an exacerbation of her colitis. The Calcidin continues to help, and we have further continued our effort to help her larynx. The last thing we have tried instillations of Chaulmoogna oil - according to Jackson & Cootes. Apparently it has helped. Again we want to thank you for your excellent suggestions - and hope that we can follow them as closely as possible. Yours sincerely, Julius McBride D.O. R2. 2/16/36 Husband's letter to EC: Dear Mr. Cayce: You can see from Dr. McBride's enclosed letter just what we are doing and Mrs. [1045]'s response to treatment. However I would like to state she complains of her stomach condition. Now you recommend in your readings fruit juices and whole wheat bread and whole wheat cereal. Now she can take none of these without excessive loose bowels severe pains and high temperature. Now that is the reason these three things were left out of her diet. However, if you think this condition is a means to a favorable end, she will try to partake of these things and trust that the ill effects will gradually become lessened until her stomach is in a normal condition - (Advise) - We have not as yet received the Radio-Active Appliance - but are expecting it daily. Hope it reaches here soon. I have not been able to procure "yogart" tablets locally nor learn where Kellogg Sanitarium is located. I am going to write tonight and address letter to Battle Creek, Mich., trusting it is located in connection with the breakfast food plant. With best wishes for you and yours, I am Very truly yours [1745] R3. 2/21/36 See 1045-7.



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Appliances: Radio-Active: Tuberculosis Par. 7 Diet: Beef Juice: Tuberculosis Par. 6 : Tuberculosis Par. 4--6 : Yogurt Par. 6 Doctors: McBride, Julius: D.O. Par. R2, R3 Inhalants: Apple Brandy Fumes: Tuberculosis Par. 8 : Keg, Charred Par. 8 TUBERCULOSIS BACKGROUND OF READING 1045-7 F 38 B1. See 1045-6 on 2/5/36. TEXT OF READING 1045-7 F 38 This Psychic Reading given by Edgar Cayce, Virginia Beach, Va., this 21st day of February, 1936. 2. As we find, there are improvements in the general physical forces of the body. 3. We would not crowd, neither would we change a great deal the applications that have been suggested. 4. It will be necessary, as we find, to alter the diets from time to time. 5. Then, instead of so much of the fruit juices - that tend to react so easily upon the system - we would use rather the ground liver, or goose liver, or a mixture of pigs' liver with calves' liver (not beef liver but calf liver). 6. Any of these would be helpful, but NOT in large quantities. The beef juice, as indicated, would be well. Also the Yogurt, which may be had from the Kellogg laboratories. 7. The vibrations from the Radio-Active Appliance will be found to quiet and ease the body. 8. The inhalations from the fumes of the brandy in the charred container will STRENGTHEN and give more vitality. Keep the body quiet, and we should build much for this body. We are through with this reading. REPORTS OF READING 1045-7 F 38 R1. 3/2/36 Husband's card: Dear Mr. Cayce: Mrs. [1045] very ill for past 10 days. Received yogurt tablets. At a loss to know how to give them, as only directions for making butter milk came - (advise). Throat, chest and stomach very sore. Radio Active Appliance has little effect. Have to use Amytol to get little rest. Very truly yours, [1745]



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R2. 3/5/36 EC wired Dr. McBride: "Advise any special questions for [1045] this aft." R3. 3/5/36 Dr. McBride wired EC: HOUSTON TEX 126P EDGAR CAYCE VIRGINIABEACH VIR LUNG CONDITION CAUSING FAINTING SPELLS PATIENT MUCH WEAKER DR MCBRIDE 258P R4. 3/5/36 See 1045-8.



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INDEX OF READING 1045-8 F 38 Air: Oxygen: Tuberculosis Par. 3, 4, 6 Ash: Animated: Tuberculosis Par. 4, 6 Diet: Beef Juice: Tuberculosis Par. 8 : Tuberculosis Par. 8 : Yogurt Par. 10-A Doctors: McBride, Julius: D.O. Reports Electrotherapy: Ultra-Violet Light: Green Glass Par. 4 Inhalants: Apple Brandy Fumes Par. 5 : Keg, Charred Par. 5 Osteopathy: Tuberculosis Par. 7 Physiology & Anatomy: Diet: Yogurt Par. 10-A Prescriptions: Grape Juice Par. 8 TUBERCULOSIS BACKGROUND OF READING 1045-8 F 38 B1. See 1045-7 on 2/21/36 and subsequent Reports. TEXT OF READING 1045-8 F 38 This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at his home on Arctic Crescent, Virginia Beach, Va., this 5th day of March, 1936. 2. As we find, the body physically is very weak from the inability of the blood supply to attain the vitality from the circulatory force sufficient to sustain the activities of the body; through the alteration in the manner through which the air or oxygen passes through the lungs. 3. It would be well that the oxygen tank be used in the present, as we find. 4. And as there is given a little strength through same, use more of the Ash with the violet ray - ultra-violet. 5. Use the inhalations from the charred container, rather than otherwise. This inhalation, of the apple brandy from a charred container rather than from the wet or from the heating of same, will make more improvement. 6. We would use a quarter grain of the Ash once each day. Use the tank oxygen first.



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7. Keep up the GENTLE manipulations to prevent any portions becoming segregated or stoppages being brought in the circulation. These given once or twice a day, osteopathically, will be helpful. Work from the limbs TOWARD the body, rather than FROM the body. In the body itself, stimulate gently the secondary cardiac plexus area as well as the vagus center; which will aid in alleviating that fullness. 8. For strengthening internal food values we would give the juice of crushed fresh grapes; any character of grapes so long as they are not those fermented or those that have been canned. This, as we find, with little sips of the beef juice as indicated, will be the necessary nourishment in the present. 9. Ready for questions. 10. (Q) How should the Yogurt be prepared for this body? (A) Yogurt is prepared by making a curd that passes through the system to absorb and aid in the eliminations. Use in milk, then, as a curd - and take very small sips for the body. Yogurt is a preparation from honeycomb, you see, that acts to take caseins from milk that are injurious to the system and helpful to the intestinal tract. This is needed more later than in the immediate, you see; for these emergencies must be met - in this lack of oxygen supply for the body. 11. We are through for the present. DAY LETTER: FIRST USE OXYGEN TANK THEN QUARTER GRAIN ASH DAILY, ULTRA-VIOLET. MANIPULATIONS ONCE-TWICE DAILY FROM LIMBS TOWARD RATHER THAN AWAY FROM BODY, STIMULATING GENTLY SECONDARY CARDIAC AND VAGUS CENTERS. GIVE SIPS JUICE FROM FRESH CRUSHED GRAPES NOT FERMENTED OR CANNED. ALSO BEEF JUICE. INHALE BRANDY FROM CHARRED CONTAINER. REPORTS OF READING 1045-8 F 38 R1. 3/10/36 Mrs. [1100]'s card: "Conditions appear about the same. Better one day and worse the next. Cannot seem to impress on them the necessity for following the diet as [1045] is so set and determined. Expect to return to Detroit next week..." R2. 3/12/36 Mrs. [1100]'s letter: "After receiving the copy of the reading taken on your return to Virginia Beach, decided to come on to ..., as I felt sure conditions were quite serious and too, I hadn't seen my mother in over a year... Well, my sister-in-law is very serious indeed and it wouldn't surprise me for the end to come any minute and I was very much surprised to learn that Dr. McBride is not following suggestions at all. I haven't met him yet, as I just got here Tuesday but he told my brother that you told him to use his own judgement but to me it seems that his judgement is not worth very much as he has told them to give her anything at all to eat and she eats things that I would have trouble digesting. He also would not use the oxygen tank suggested, telling my brother that she would not live 30 minutes if he used it, so of course, my brother doesn't know what is best or what to do. Now I hate to 'jump on' the doctor for fear he will give up the case and then they will have no one on whom to depend... I am sorry indeed about the turn of affairs down here and will keep trying to impress on my brother the necessity for carrying out the suggestions to the letter..."



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R3. 3/16/36 EC's letter to [1100]: Dear Mrs. [1100];-

Thanks for yours of 12th. Am mighty sorry to hear Mrs. [1045] is so bad off. Knew from the last reading she was in no good shape. Sure do hope you will be able to help in persuading them to give the information a try in earnest and sincerely trust it is not too late. Know how feeble and unresponsive she must feel. Have seen several cases of that kind, and have seen them come back when there seemingly wasn't any hope whatever. Am sure as you say the food can and does make a lot of difference for her. But will it not be possible Mrs. [1100] for you to take the last reading and get them to adhere to it just as it was suggested, the Charred keg for the brandy and all. The Sips of the Calcidin will surely help a lot in making her easier. I can only hope and pray for the best, and May HE guide you to have the strength and persuasive power to carry on as is best for her and the rest.

And please know this. If you feel that I might be of a help at any time please wire me. You know I will be only too glad to try.

Am sure all there were glad to see you, and hope you have a very lovely visit even tho it is under very trying circumstances.

There is no use raising cain with the Dr. Perhaps he will learn better, but if at all agreeable just take hold and have them at least give the information a try. Can't harm am sure. The Dr. has said several time there was no hope from his point of view, but that he had seen such information help. Just wonder why he wouldn't help give it a chance. The Lord help him.

My how I wish we had a place. Such things worry me but can do so little to help. Please don't hesitate to wire me and please let me know how she get along.

Thanks Mrs. [1100], can't ever tell you how much I appreciated your taking the time to be near during the test there in Detroit. It meant a lot more than can ever tell you. Well have been feeling some better, still having a spell now and then, but got myself a reading, and find it works when you do what it says, so hope to get along alright now. The rest have been pretty well. H. L. and Miss Gladys very busy as the Bulletins have gotten behind in their appearance, but the weather is fine and every one should feel better.

I don't know of any thing that could have been much nicer than for you to have carried out your feeling after the decision. Thanks more than ever can tell you and [470]. Both were just wonderful. God Bless you both.

Do hope Mrs. [1045] gets on better, please let me know how she is. Please tell her if she wants to get better, to hold on. Know God can heal, and his forces here when applied correctly as his word will help.

All send love and best wishes Sincerely Edgar Cayce

R4. 3/19/36 Husband's wire: 7FH G 46 NL TEXAS EDGAR CAYCE ASSN F R AND E INC VIRGINIA BEACH VIR MRS [1100] CLEARED UP MISUNDERSTANDINGS ANXIOUS TO FOLLOW SUGGESTION TAKE READING REVIEWING CASE TO FACILITATE TREATMENT STATING SPECIFICALLY JUST WHAT TO DO THROAT EDEMATOUS SPECIALIST SUGGEST ALCOHOL INJECTION SUPERIOR LARYNGEAL NERVE ADVISE STOP USE OF SODIUM AMYTOL TO PRODUCE SLEEP ADVISE STOP SPECIFY DIET IN DETAILS



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INDEX OF READING 1045-9 F 38 Appliances: Radio-Active: Insomnia Par. 7, 10-A Diet: Beef Juice: Tuberculosis Par. 2 : Yogurt Par. 8 Doctors: McBride, Julius: D.O. Reports Inhalants: Apple Brandy Fumes Par. 4 : Keg, Charred Par. 4 Osteopathy: Tuberculosis Par. 6 Physiotherapy: Rubdowns: Alcohol, Grain Par. 3 Prescriptions: Calcidin Par. 5 Sedation: Not Recommended Par. 10-A TUBERCULOSIS TEXT OF READING 1045-9 F 38 This Psychic Reading given by Edgar Cayce at his home on Arctic Crescent, Virginia Beach, Va., this 20th day of March, 1936. 1. EC: Yes, we have the body, [1045]. And, as we find, while conditions are still very serious, if there is the close adherence to those suggestions that have been made, there should be response yet in the physical forces of the body. 2. While the strength and the vitality and the resistances are low, if the diet is followed that will be the more easily assimilated, we find that building influences will be created - as we have indicated. NONE of the foods should be in great quantities, but the liquid and semi-liquid diet - the beef juice formed in the manner indicated; and these sipped a little now and then, three, four, five times a day, is much preferable to giving quantities at a stipulated time. 3. The alcohol rubs that we have indicated should be given; not the ordinary RUB alcohol nor the wood, but the pure GRAIN alcohol. The absorption by the body of this is much preferable to injections or to taking same internally in the system; and especially if same is massaged where the emunctories and the lymph come closer to the surface it will be the more easily absorbed and tend to PREVENT temperature - while the injections would tend to raise temperature in the combative influence as would be given.



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4. Use the inhalants as indicated from the gases from the charred keg of pure apple brandy; these will make for a clearing of the head and the inflammation in the throat, and - as we find - improvements in the general condition. 5. The calcium and iodine through the use of the Calcidin would be well to continue; this dissolved and SIPPED. This taken frequently, every few hours or every HOUR if a small quantity is taken, is much preferable to a spoonful; and is true in the diet as well as in stimulations. 6. The massage and corrections are still helpful for the body. 7. The use of the Appliance as indicated will bring REST, IF the applications are kept in the manner as indicated. CLEAN when attached to the body, and keep in contact with the wrist, the ankle. Have it charged or COOLED when or before it is attached; that is, prepare same for fifteen to twenty minutes before it is to be attached to the body, and put on body for an hour or hour and a half two to three times a day. 8. The Yogurt in its preparation may make for the greater absorbing influences through the intestinal system, and with the general inactivity keep the coordinations of activities between the circulatory forces of the liver, the spleen, the pancreas, the lungs, the kidneys, more in order. For from such disturbances the BREAKING DOWN of the katabolism becomes the DESTRUCTIVE force in ANY condition of this nature. 9. Read for questions. 10. (Q) Please advise regarding the use of Sodium Amytol as advised by doctor? (A) This may be resorted to in emergencies, but if the Appliance is used PROPERLY this is MUCH more effective and we would not have the reactions that are as detrimental as the giving of such properties into the system. 11. We are through with this reading. REPORTS OF READING 1045-9 F 38 R1. 3/26/36 Husband's letter to EC: ..., Texas Dear Mr. Cayce: We received your reading Sunday night and got started on it Monday morning. I certainly am happy that my sister (Mrs. [1100]) came and straightened things out - for she saw, as things were going, Mrs. [1045] was steadily getting worse. However since starting and acting on the Information contained in your reading I BELIEVE she has reached the turning point and is going to improve. She appears to feel better. Her temperature does not go as high as formerly; the throat, although very sore and swollen inside, does not seem to restrict her breathing as much. We are very anxious for you to take the lead and direct the treatment in this case - Dr. McBride says that he is not going to use his judgement any more: that he is going to cooperate in doing only as he is told. As we asked for a review of the case for a new beginning in the last letter, he was at a loss how to interpret the term "corrections". He finally decided that they were to include the Ultra Violet Ray.



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We are very anxious that we follow the diet suggestions. So I am going to ask that you write me a menu to follow, especially as to SEMI liquids. Mrs. [1100] thinks that Mrs. Cayce will be glad to get this up for me. (Mrs. [1100] left here for Detroit yesterday, and is probably near home by this time). Any personal information or suggestions that you can offer (other than the readings) will be greatly appreciated. The Calcidin solution causes Mrs. [1045] to become dizzy. There's no danger of taking too much? With the best of wishes for you and yours, I am Very truly yours, [1745] R2. 3/30/36 Mrs. [1100]'s letter: "First, I want to thank you for that very kind letter written to [...] which I read to my sister-in-law (all except the part about the doctor saying he considered hers a hopeless case) and my brother took it to Dr. McBride. I believe, it has been the doctor's fault that the suggestions have not been carried out but of course, we cannot blame one when they do not understand or know how necessary it is to follow the suggestions to the letter. "Really my sister-in-law was eating food with a temperature ranging from 101 to 103 and over that a well person could not digest and of course I was 'flabergasted' whatever that means. I watched very closely and am sure it was the food which was causing the high temperatures and setbacks. For 2 or 3 days before I left, the diet had been practically correct as far as I knew and she appeared much better and stronger. The charred keg wasn't rigged up correctly but I didn't know exactly how it should be but since I got home, [470] outlined it in detail and I sent the sketch to them by special air mail, so now I believe they are straightened out and I believe they realize the necessity of adhering to the diet. They have a lovely little old lady caring for her who is very efficient and very desirous of following the readings to the best of her ability..." [GD's note: Of course above letter was not rec'd until after reading 1045-10 was given on 3/31/36.]



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Appliances: Radio-Active: Insomnia Par. 21-A Diet: Beef Juice: Tuberculosis Par. 15 : Citrus & Cereal Par. 14 : Tuberculosis Par. 11--18 Doctors: McBride, Julius: D.O. Par. 22-A Inhalants: Apple Brandy Fumes: Tuberculosis Par. 9 : Keg, Charred: Par. 9 Osteopathy: Tuberculosis Par. 4--6, 22-A Physiotherapy: Massage: Alcohol, Grain: Tuberculosis Par. 10, 23-A Prescriptions: Calcidin: Tuberculosis Par. 7, 8 TUBERCULOSIS TEXT OF READING 1045-10 F 38 This Psychic Reading given by Edgar Cayce, this 31st day of March, 1936.

1. EC: Yes, (body a little brighter this morning, after some very bad experiences), we have the body, [1045]; this we have had before. 2. While conditions still are very disturbing at times, as has been indicated there are good periods and then apparently there is a choking up in some portion of the system, and then another period of a little bit more of an optimistic feeling. 3. But as we find, if there is consistency used with those suggestions that have been indicated, there should be yet a great improvement in the physical forces of this body. 4. First, in these applications for the manipulative forces: 5. As is surely understood by the physician in charge, there is an incoordination (under such disturbances) in the lungs, the liver, the kidneys, and the breaking up or breaking down of these coordinations is the destructive factor in allowing the cellular force to become so charged as to produce breaks in even the lung area. 6. Hence those areas where the gentle manipulations are to be given are where there are the impulses for nerve reaction to the circulatory system to those organs from the cerebrospinal system. That is, when an application is to be made, if there is the appearance from the general reaction of the activities of the liver or of the kidneys or of the lungs that one or the other or all are not coordinating, then the manipulative force is to stimulate those centers that will PRODUCE a greater coordinating reaction to the system in these directions! At



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times the treatment will be to relax same; at others it would be to make for a coordination by tautening, as it were, the muscular forces about the ganglia as to produce THAT impulse. See? 7. Then, in the application of the Calcidin for the throat and the pressure upon the lungs: To be sure, this may be overdone; that is, there may be made to be too great an iodine reaction in the system. 8. Hence, while this should be kept ready, it should be altered in its application so that it is only used when NECESSARY, see? 9. However, the inhalations from the brandy in charred container should be kept - for these will give strength and stimulation. 10. Also the massage with the GRAIN alcohol will give strength to the body, and should be kept regularly. 11. In the matter of the diet: As indicated, it is most necessary that precautionary measures be taken in these directions. And if there is found that sweets, starches, meats or what not in ANY form produce a tightening in either the eliminating system (that is, the activity of the liver in its coordination with the circulatory forces for the lungs) or in other portions of the body, these should be - or must be - reduced or changed. 12. As indicated, we find that for several weeks at least, or until there is a great deal more strength or a great deal more ability to build up resistances, the liquid or semi-liquid foods would be the more preferable for the body. These had best be taken five, six, seven times a day than any large QUANTITY taken at any ONE time; so that the BUILDING is kept active throughout the system. These, as we find, would be the most helpful. 13. There may be at times (if capable of being assimilated by the system) the citrus fruit juices or stewed fruits. ANY of these in any of their forms, but very small quantities at times. 14. We would have at other times (not the periods when citrus fruits are taken, or scarcely even on the same day!) cracked wheat or ROLLED wheat, whole wheat - this cooked for at least THREE OR FOUR HOURS! Add to this not raw milk (as we do not find this would be the better) but rather use the dried milk prepared, or the Eagle Brand Milk. This would be more preferably taken only a spoonful at a time. The vitamin forces, the strength, the iron, the vitality in same are such that these may be assimilated by the system. 15. There should be at least an ounce of the beef juice taken during each day; this would be most helpful, but should be prepared as indicated, not with the fat but just the juice from the lean beef. 16. Arrowroot (prepared properly), junket, those preparations with the Yogurt that make for a type of milk that is most helpful through the absorptions in the system itself. 17. All of these. Vegetable juices; and if these are not made from fresh vegetables, use Gerber's - as the juices that are prepared for infants, and these in their combinations would be used with whole wheat bread that is browned. Combine just a little. Don't give a whole two tablespoonsful, or even one tablespoonful! If a teaspoonful at a time is taken, we find this is much better than a tablespoonful of ANY of these at ONE helping, see?



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18. Malted milk, egg and milk, egg and milk and brandy, or egg and milk and spirits frumenti (so it is pure). All of these, a little at a time. 19. It requires patience, it requires persistence, it requires time; but it's WORTH it for the body and more so for those that would administer to it! 20. Ready for questions. 21. (Q) Should all present treatments be continued? (A) As indicated, all should be kept in much this way and manner. Of course, the Appliance will make for better rest; but keep the anodes cleaner! Do not allow the ice to come over the top of the Appliance, or water. 22. (Q) As related to Dr. McBride's treatments - (A) (Interrupting) As has been indicated, these have been made specific; and if he sees he sees, if he doesn't, it's just too bad - for him! 23. (Q) Any further advice? (A) Do these, as we have given, for the next two to three weeks at least. We should find STRENGTH! When the alcohol rubs are given, these should be across the hips - of course - down the limbs and along the spine. Not rub alcohol but GRAIN alcohol. These will make for RESTING of the body and prevent soreness, or prevent this tiredness - and keep down temperature also. We are through with this reading.

REPORTS OF READING 1045-10 F 38 R1. 4/2/36 EC's letter to [1745]: Dear Mr. [1745]: - I very much appreciate yours of the 26th, and certainly hope all the conditions are in shape so that Mrs. [1045] will get the full benefit of the suggestions made. Please don't hesitate to let us hear from you if there is any part you do not understand. Have you been able to get the charred keg and brandy? I believe you will find this to be the most helpful, just inhaling the fumes. It is so much better than the evaporated fumes, for you then have only the effect of the ash - and don't get the effect of the alcohol. Hoping to have been of service, and that you will let us hear often, I am Sincerely, [EC: GD]

R2. 4/12/36 Husband's letter to EC: ..., Texas Dear Mr. Cayce: I thank you very much for your letter; and I appreciate very much your personal interest in my wife's condition. After the first trend toward improvement her condition SEEMS to remain the the same. Temperature @ 7 AM about 97 degrees - slowly rises during the day and goes to (103 - 104) by night, remains within one degree of that until about midnight and then begins to cool and by 7 AM is back to (97 - 98) degrees. We are trying to follow the Information in your readings very closely and would appreciate some personal suggestions occasionally that you think might help - a personal letter in plain language always helps. With best wishes for you and yours, I am Very truly yours, [1745]

R3. 4/23/36 A.M. Husband wired: "Mrs. [1045] getting weaker coughing considerably."



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INDEX OF READING 1045-11 F 38 Ash: Animated: Hemorrhage Par. 3, 5, 10 Diet: Tuberculosis Par. 13-A Electrotherapy: Ultra-Violet Light: Green Glass: Hemorrhage Par. 3, 5, 10 Hemorrhage: Tuberculosis Par. 2, 3, 14-A Inhalants: Apple Brandy Fumes: Tuberculosis Par. 4, 10 : Keg, Charred: Par. 4, 10 Osteopathy: Tuberculosis Par. 6, 7, 10 Physiotherapy: Massage: Alcohol, Grain: Tuberculosis Par. 12-A TUBERCULOSIS TEXT OF READING 1045-11 F 38 This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce, this 23rd day of April, 1936. 2. In some respects conditions appear to be not so good. As we find, unless there are greater precautions taken in the diet and in the manner of the exercise, there will again occur a hemorrhage; FROM those conditions that have set about in the lung area or the affected portions. 3. But when this does occur, or if there will be taken more of the Animated Ash WITH the Ultra-violet ray, these will heal; for it will loosen sufficient of the oxygen. 4. And continue more often, not too long at a time, the use of the inhalations; that they may HEAL those areas in the lung that make for such distresses from the breaking of tissue, in the throat and in the lung. 5. The throat, of course, is more irritated in the present. Hence we find that the Ash here - an eighth of a grain morning and evening, followed by the ultra-violet for a minute - would make for a helpful condition. 6. The massage should be general and, as indicated, keep the liver and the kidneys active; for with the drosses, or the natural excess of the quantity of toxic forces that are to be thrown out, do not let these become more and more involved. 7. Stimulate, then, in the massage, at the 9th dorsal and the 4th lumbar, gently - but in a rotary nature, and in those specific centers. The lower portion of the 9th dorsal, the whole of the 4th lumbar or the lumbar axis. This will rest the body, it will also prevent the PRESSURE FROM the tendency for the dilation from the coughing of the stomach to press upon the diaphragm.



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8. These will be the helpful conditions in the present. 9. Do that. 10. Twice a day (this may be wired) the Ash, one-eighth of a grain; the light, ultra-violet, one minute, following the giving of the Ash - three to five minutes afterward. Stimulate the 9th dorsal, the 4th lumbar, GENTLY, with the massage. Use the inhalations of the brandy for the searing or for the cleansing of those conditions in throat and lung. 11. Ready for questions. 12. (Q) What should be done for the extreme weakness? (A) Massaging with pure grain alcohol will give strength as well as keep down temperature. This should be massaged over the abdomen, even to the lower portion of the lung area itself, and across the spine - from the lumbar area to about the 4th dorsal area. 13. (Q) Regarding the diet, is there any food that should be eliminated from the present diet? (A) Keep that as has been indicated; but be very mindful we do not include sweets. THIS has been included, which has been harmful. 14. (Q) Anything else to do for the coughing? (A) Just that as indicated. This may produce - by this coughing - and by this irritation - a hemorrhage. But this should not cause too great an anxiety, so long as it can be controlled. We are through with this reading. [4/23/36 GD's note]: Wired as follows: EIGHTH GRAIN ASH MORNING, EVENING. FOLLOW FIVE MINUTES LATER WITH ULTRA-VIOLET ONE MINUTE. STIMULATE MASSAGE NINTH DORSAL FOURTH LUMBAR GENTLY ROTARY MOTION. BRANDY INHALATIONS. GRAIN ALCOHOL RUBS OVER ABDOMEN, LOWER LUNG AREA AND SPINE FROM LUMBAR TO FOURTH DORSAL FOR WEAKNESS AND TEMPERATURE. WATCH DIET. NO SWEETS. FULL INFORMATION AIR MAIL. REPORTS OF READING 1045-11 F 38 R1. 4/27/36 [1100]'s letter: "Do not know whether my brother has wired you or not but my sister-in-law passed on last evening. I received the check reading Sat. and that was the first I knew about the hemorrhage and I also realized that things did not look so well even tho we are expecting it, death always comes as a surprise. I am sure had she adhered strictly to the diet, at least she would have had a better chance to live." R2. 5/6/36 EC wrote Mr. [1745] and Mrs. [1100] ltrs. of condolence. R3. Subsequently Mr. [1745] had personal rdgs. for himself and his son [1671].



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List of Tuberculosis Readings Not Included in these Files 1-1 29-1 58-1 59-1 64-3 68-1 93-1 165-7 165-12 176-1 201-1 202-1 209-1 223-1 231-1 243-30 243-31 258-1 259-10 275-1 289-6, 8 294-166 297-1 318-9 337-4 340-12 357-9 357-11 357-12 360-3 369-5 427-4, 5 427-6 428-8 471-1

493-1 501-4 515-1, 2 528-3, 4 528-5, 6 528-7, 8 528-9, 10 528-11 528-13 528-15 552-1 562-5 667-13 667-15 715-4, 7, 8, 9, 10 757-1 815-1 843-1 850-1 850-6 850-7 900-262 910-1 929-1 943-17 951-5 958-1 958-2 1003-3 1012-1 1027-1 1059-1 1172-1 1204-2

1234-2 1239-1 1282-1 1324-1 1350-1 1472-16 1519-6 1519-7 1542-1 1557-1 1560-1 1657-1 1658-1 1667-1 1730-2 1759-1 1818-1 1854-1 1866-1 1866-2 1866-3 1866-4 1899-1 1899-2 1956-3 2040-2 2177-1 2199-1 2270-1 2299-10 2303-1 2320-1 2321-1 2321-2 2321-3

2335-1 2367-1 2378-3 2378-4 2448-1 2514-1 2514-5 2752-3 2766-1 2806-1 2959-1 2978-1 3058-1 3085-1 3085-2 3154-1 3176-1 3194-1 3200-1 3220-1 3222-1 3260-1 3354-1 3482-1 3494-1 3495-1 3499-1 3535-1 3625-1 3634-2 3671-1 3687-1 3713-1 3761-1 3971-1

4018-1 4024-1 4042-1 4114-1 4236-1 4253-1 4271-1 4573-1 4573-2 4645-1 4669-1 4701-1 4701-2 4722-1 4759-1 4769-3 4871-1 4943-1 4987-3 5174-1 5389-1 5476-1 5615-1 5618-1 5655-1 5677-1 5693-1 5703-1 5707-1 5712-1 5714-1, 2 5740-1



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Colloidal Silver and Tuberculosis http://www.thesilveredge.com/silver-nanoparticles-are-a-potent-anti-tuberculosis-drug.shtml#.VUOiDPlViko

Tuberculosis, also called "TB" (short for tubercle bacillus), is a common and often deadly infectious disease caused by mycobacteria.

According to Wikipedia, "Tuberculosis typically attacks the lungs, but can also affect other parts of the body. It is spread through the air when people who have an active TB infection cough, sneeze, or otherwise transmit respiratory fluids through the air."

TB is the second-most common cause of death from infectious disease worldwide, with HIV/AIDS being first. According to researchers, there are up to 13.7 million active cases of TB worldwide at any given time, resulting in 1.3 to 1.5 million deaths annually.

TB infections are extremely difficult to cure. Standard treatment for TB consists of the daily use of at least four different antibiotics for up to18 to 24 months.

Worse yet, cases of multiple-drug-resistant TB are now running rampant in some countries. And the mortality rates are skyrocketing.

Is colloidal silver effective against TB? Here's what we know so far… Hi, Steve Barwick here, for The Silver Edge…

In this clinical study, entitled "Nature-inspired Novel Drug Design Paradigm Using Nanosilver: Efficacy on Multi-drug-resistant Clinical Isolates of Tuberculosis," researchers found that when testing a "novel form" of metallic nanosilver against antibiotic-resistant tuberculosis (TB), the pathogens were killed rapidly and successfully.

The researchers state that by capping (i.e, coating) metallic silver nanoparticles with bovine serum albumin and then testing it in the laboratory against sputum samples collected from pulmonary TB patients with multi-drug-resistant TB, they were able to demonstrate that this "novel nanosilver compound" constitutes a "potent anti-TB drug."

The "Novel Drug" Ruse While the study results are extremely encouraging, the idea that you need to "cap" (i.e., coat) metallic silver nanoparticles with a chemical substance in order to make them "less toxic" to the human body is ludicrous and counterproductive, as I'll explain below. In reality, the researchers coated the metallic silver nanoparticles with bovine serum albumin because they were attempting to come up with a "novel invention" so they could obtain FDA "drug" status for it, patent it, and monopolize its sale globally.

They as much as admitted so in the conclusion to their study, where they state, "Encouragingly, the results indicate that this novel design could be further extended for developing improved medicinal agents for combating multi-drug-resistant TB." (See Current Microbiology, 2011, 62:715-726.)

There is really no other "benefit" to coating the metallic silver nanoparticles with bovine serum albumin.

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You see, when metallic silver nanoparticles are coated with any substance, whether it's bovine serum albumin, or milk protein, or PVP, or any other, the effectiveness of the silver against pathogens is dramatically limited.

That's because coating the silver nanoparticles greatly diminishes their ability to release silver ions inside the human body.

And silver ions are what actually kill the pathogens,not the metallic silver nanoparticle being ingested (see "Experts: It's the Silver Ion that Gives Colloidal Silver It's Antimicrobial Power.")

So for the coated metallic silver nanoparticles to release enough silver ions to be effective against pathogens, a person would have to ingest two or three times more nanosilver than they would if the silver nanoparticles had not been coated.

And that means the liver and the kidneys will have to deal with two or three times more silver "load" on the body than they otherwise would have. This is most definitely not prudent or wise.

A far safer and more effective way to go would have been to leave the silver nanoparticles uncoated, but use one-third to one-half the dose.

That far lower load of nanosilver on the body would give the researchers all of the safety and low toxicity they claim to have been looking for in the first place. And it would allow more than enough silver ions to be released from the uncoated silver nanoparticles to do the job against the pathogens.

The bottom line is this: The whole idea that capping the silver particles makes them "less toxic" to humans is ridiculous, because you're in essence forcing the infected individual to ingest two or three times more silver than necessary to kill the pathogens.

But using far smaller dosages of uncoated silver nanoparticles would allow the release of free silver ions (which kills the pathogens), while putting a mere one-third to one-half the silver load on the liver and kidneys. Turning a Natural Substance Into a "Drug"

What's really happening here is that the medical researchers and the big drug companies want desperately to enter the market for silver-based infection-fighting substances.

After all, they know that silver is far more effective against infectious microorganism than their failing prescription antibiotic drugs.

The big drug companies also know they can't patent a completely natural substance like silver, so they have to come up with some way to create a "novel" silver-based product, or at the very least a "novel" delivery system.

I emphasize the word "novel" because that's the single-most important criteria that must be passed for a product to receive a patent and to be sold as a drug.

In other words, for a medical product to be patented and sold as a drug, it must be unique and new, i.e., something that doesn't occur naturally and hasn't been manufactured the same way before.

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As long as it's a "novel" (i.e., unique and new) substance or there's a novel methodology behind its creation, use, or delivery, Big Pharma can then patent it, turn it into a "drug," and monopolize its sales worldwide making billions of dollars in the process. Great News

In spite of my concerns about the use of coated silver nanoparticles in the above-described is study, the conclusions drawn by the study authors are nevertheless exciting and eye-opening, because it means silver has been clinically proven to destroy TB.

This once again confirms the incredible infection-fighting power of silver against infectious microbes – even drug-resistant microbes like the TB pathogen.

Think about it: Even silver nanoparticles coated with bovine serum albumin (which dramatically reduces their effectiveness) worked well against the drug-resistant TB pathogen in this study.

Can you imagine how well it might have worked if the silver nanoparticles were uncoated, or if pure ionic silver (i.e., colloidal silver) had been used instead of some "novel" new invention?

So why not just tell people that small doses of safe, natural colloidal silver – consisting largely of pure silver ions which are the active, infection-fighting form of silver – could just as effectively be used to kill the TB pathogen?

Well, there's no money in that for the researchers, is there? While silver ions are the active, infection-fighting specie of silver, they're

not patentable because anyone can produce them with a simple, home colloidal silver generator such as the new Micro-Particle Colloidal Silver Generator from The Silver Edge.

Look…millions of people worldwide have been ingesting tiny silver nanoparticles and pure silver ions in moderation for decades now, without undue harm or risk.

So the whole idea that tiny silver nanoparticles need to be coated in bovine serum albumin in order to "reduce toxicity" is nothing less than a spurious notion designed, in my opinion, to cover up the fact that the researchers were trying to create a "novel" drug for Big Pharma.

(What's more, some people are actually allergic to bovine serum albumin (aka BSA). Indeed, BSA is one of the allergens in the so-called cow's milk allergy. So coating silver nanoparticles in BSA effectively eliminates at least one small portion of the population from enjoying the infection-fighting benefits of silver.)

Isn't it interesting that Big Pharma and their lackeys in the FDA create unwarranted fear over the use of safe, natural, colloidal silver, while simultaneously creating the illusion that their "novel" silver compound coated with bovine serum albumin is going to be "safe" and good for you?

As usual when dealing with the big drug companies and their researchers, rank deception and hypocrisy are the order of the day.

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Can Colloidal Silver Cure TB? While the study discussed above demonstrates that silver can indeed be

used to kill the TB pathogen, it does not prove that silver is a "cure" for TB in the human body. More studies need to be done. But the current study is cause for much hope.

There are also some citations in very old medical literature (circa 1900) for the use of colloidal silver as a remedy for tuberculosis.

But you have to keep in mind that most of the formulations of colloidal silver used back then were often chemical in nature, which is to say, they were not electrically generated colloidal silver, but instead silver compounds made through a chemical process.

According to American Biotech Labs, a company which has paid for private studies to be conducted on colloidal silver in different areas of the world, colloidal silver has been used in Ghana, West Africa, to successfully treat such diseases as tuberculosis, malaria, gonorrhea, and more.

You might also find it worthwhile to do a Google search for US Patent #7,135,195. This patent claims that colloidal silver is very effective against the tuberculosis pathogen.

The patent claim, of course, only applies to the specific brand of colloidal silver discussed in the patent. And treating any serious disease, including TB, should be done only under the supervision of a licensed medical practitioner.

But the patent is one more link in the chain of evidence suggesting that colloidal silver could be highly effective against the tuberculosis pathogen in the human body, just as it is against so many other pathogens.

According to the "Purpose" and "Conclusions" sections of the patent dealing with their study on colloidal silver and the tuberculosis bacteria (section 9, "Evidence of Efficacy of 10 ppm Silver Against Tuberculosis Bacteria"), colloidal silver at only 10 ppm has been demonstrated to effectively kill the TB bacteria:

Purposes "The purpose of this example is to demonstrate the efficacy of a silver

composition of the present invention against the bacteria that cause tuberculosis. This example describes the procedures for evaluation of the present

invention for tuberculocidal efficacy. The methodology is based on the Tuberculocidal Activity Test Method as

accepted by the EPA on Dec. 11, 1985. [Refer to United States Environmental Protection Agency, 1986. Office of Pesticides and Toxic Substances. Data Call-In Notice for Tubercuolocidal Effectiveness Data for All Antimicrobial Pesticides with Tuberculocidal Claims. (Received Jun. 13, 1986). Conclusions

The use of silver compositions of the present invention is effective against tuberculosis bacteria.

A method comprising the step of administering silver compositions of the present invention is effective against tuberculosis organisms."



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So it's fascinating that only 10 ppm colloidal silver was shown to be effective against the tuberculosis pathogen in the study cited in the above-mentioned patent.

However, it's important to note that this claim is based on a test-tube study used in the patenting of a colloidal silver-based product. It was not a human study. So we still await further clinical studies before drawing any hard-and-fast conclusions.

But as biologist James South, MA, once wrote in the International Anti-Aging Bulletin:

"From 1900 to the beginning of the modern antibiotic era – circa 1940 with the introduction of sulfa drugs – Silver was one of the mainstays of medical practice in Europe and America.

Various forms of Silver were used to treat literally hundreds of ailments: lung infections such as pneumonia, tuberculosis and pleurisy; sexual diseases such as gonorrhea and syphillis; plus…

…skin conditions such as cuts, wounds, leg ulcers, pustular eczema, impetigo and boils; acute meningitis and epidemic cerebro-spinal meningitis; infectious diseases such as Mediterranean fever, erysipelas…

…cystitis, typhus, typhoid fever, and tonsilitis; eye disorders such as dacryocystitis, corneal ulcers, conjunctivitis and blepharitis; and various forms of septicemia, including puerperal fever, peritonitis and post-abortion septicemia."

And as Dr. Kent Holtorf, M.D., of the Holtorf Medical Group has stated: "Silver formulations have also been used in hundreds of various infections

and other conditions including pneumonia, tuberculosis, eczema, meningitis, erysipelas, Mediterranean fever, corneal ulcers, conjunctivitis and septicemia."

In 1910, Dr Henry Crooks a pioneer in colloidal chemistry wrote that: "...certain metals such as silver, when in a colloidal state, have a highly

germicidal action but are quite harmless to human beings… ...Bronchial tuberculosis…Staphylococcus pyogenes, various Streptococci

and other pathogenic organisms are all killed in three to four minutes: in fact no microbe is known that is not killed by this colloid in laboratory

experiments in six minutes, [and] the concentration of the [silver] does not exceed twenty-five parts per million…"

And as Alfred B. Searle wrote in 1921, his book,Use of Colloids in Health & Disease:

"...it is now definitely known that the germicidal properties of certain colloidal metals are based chiefly on the fact that the metals are in the colloidal state…

...a vigorous growth of b. tuberculosis was killed by colloidal silver in four minutes (a solution of 1 part silver to 2,000 parts fluid)."

Finally, the well-known and highly respected Dr. Gordon Pedersen wrote, in his 2014 book "A New Fighting Chance":

"Tuberculosis is a common and often deadly infectious disease caused by mycobacteria.

…silver has destroyed tuberculosis in laboratory studies.



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By drinking two teaspoons twice daily and inhaling from a nebulizer 30 minutes each day, you may affect the tuberculosis in both the lungs and the bloodstream.

Tuberculosis is not easy to beat. This dosage may need to be followed for weeks or months. You should see benefits after the first dose and each repeated use."

So perhaps if clinical researchers were more interested in curing disease than in making money for their pharmaceutical company masters, we'd know by now whether or not colloidal silver – without any of the bells-and-whistles to make it a "novel drug" – would indeed work against Tuberculosis, now that the dread disease is becoming endemic once again worldwide.

Real-Life Accounts? Are there any real-life accounts of colloidal silver being used to cure a

case of tuberculosis? Unfortunately, I haven't been able to find any. That's likely because most

cases of TB are in Third World countries where colloidal silver is not available. But I have seen a few anecdotal accounts that clearly point in that direction.

For example, here's an anecdotal account I found on the CureZone.com website, about a woman who'd tested positive for latent TB for 32 years, but who no longer tested positive after only two months of daily use of colloidal silver:

"A close family member had been 'infected' with tuberculosis 32 years ago.

When doctors did the TB test, she would always test positive. Just recently she has a physical done because she just got hired by a medical institution.

They tested her for TB and found she was not infected and quite normal. Just two months of colloidal silver took care of 32 years of a stubborn

bacteria that would not go away." Of course, that testimonial account still doesn't prove colloidal silver would

cure an active TB infection. After all, you can test "positive" for years after an initial TB infection, even if you're no longer battling the actual infection. The immune system simply keeps the pathogen in a more-or-less dormant state.

But the testimonial above does indeed indicate that colloidal silver can rid the body of the pathogen,even after it's been established there for decades.

You can learn more about the astonishing effectiveness of colloidal silver against today's growing scourge of drug-resistant pathogens at atthis link. In the Meantime

In the meantime, take a look at these real-life colloidal silver success stories, and discover how thousands of people worldwide are curing their own infections with safe, natural colloidal silver. Yours for the safe, sane and responsible use of colloidal silver, Steve Barwick, author

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