Reading 3808-1

TEXT OF READING 3808-1 F 47

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Date: 3/25/1944 Sex: F Age: 47 ReadingID: 11382

This Psychic Reading given by Edgar Cayce at the office of the Association, Arctic Crescent, Virginia Beach, Va., this 25th day of March, 1944, in accordance with request made by the self - Miss [3808], new Associate Member of the Ass”n for Research & Enlightenment, Inc., recommended by the book, THERE IS A RIVER.

[Edgar Cayce; Gertrude Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. (Notes read to and transcribed by Jeanette Fitch.)]

Time of Reading Cherokee St., 3:30 to 3:40 P. M. Eastern War Time. Philadelphia, Pa.

1. GC: You will go over this body carefully, examine it thoroughly, and tell me the conditions you find at the present time; giving the cause of the existing conditions, also suggestions for help and relief of this body; answering the questions, as I ask them:

2. EC: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania - Cherokee Street - yes - white house with the tree.

3. Yes, we have the body here, [3808].

4. As we find there are disturbing conditions that may become very aggravating unless measures are taken to eliminate or meet the disturbances in the present.

5. There are those chemical changes where certain hormones are minus in the body. These in the activity of the glandular forces continue to allow broken cells to accumulate or become nebulous and accumulate tissue or matter about same, forming segregations that may become very detrimental to the body - especially as indicated in the present in the mammary glands. Unless attention is given to the system by adding such hormones as to create a proper balance, these may form also in other portions of the body where there are those inactivities of glands; as through the abdomen as well as wherever soft tissue may become so aggravated by these disturbances.

6. We would go to Dr. Babcock at Temple Hospital and have or receive injections of the hormones that will counter act this condition. These would be given hypodermically and not more than two of such injections would be necessary - these at least three or four weeks apart.

7. Then the diet should be kept constructive as related to the condition; the lack of other than fruits and vegetables (juices) and not too much of any meats at all. Vegetables mainly, and only fish and fowl as meat - and these prepared Kosher.

8. Throughout the periods while there is the use of the injections we would massage very gently, at least once each day, the mammary glands; not about the breasts but under the arms, using cocoa butter.

9. Do these and we should rid the body of these disturbances.

10. Ready for questions.

11. (Q) What should be done to help spot inside left cheek to become normal healthy again, and to prevent other cysts from forming? (A) All of these will gradually disappear as the proper balance is created in the system.

12. (Q) Is there any part of my body especially susceptible to disease and of which I should be particularly careful in the future? (A) Any of those about the glands indicated, and especially the breasts.

13. (Q) Is something recommended to avoid or to alleviate the severeness of the Spring and Fall variety of Hay Fever which I have had for years? (A) The very same changes in the activity of the glands should also alleviate these disturbances.

14. (Q) When I am married (soon) because of my age and general physical condition would it be harmful to my health to have a child? (A) Not until these disturbances are ridded from the body. It would be harmful unless these glands have become changed so that there is an equal balance of the hormones.

15. (Q) Is it probable that I would have a normal, healthy child? (A) Very probable if conditions have been altered.

16. (Q) Would you encourage me to have a child? (A) Read what has just been given. Dependent upon whether there has been the purifying of the system or an equal balance between the male and female hormones in the body. The male hormones have been lacking and it will be necessary for the injection of same to rid the body of these tendencies for cysts. Without these being eliminated and the body purified (and it should take at least a year to two years) to have a child would be quite dangerous.

17. We are through with this reading.

Two copies to Self (one for Dr. Babcock) Air Mail Copy to Ass’n file ” under case number for indexing

Reports

Reports & Follow-up

R1. 4/18/44 Letter: The physical reading you gave for me on March 25th has helped me tremendously. By a strange coincidence on March 15th I suddenly developed a thickening of some glands in my right breast and a cyst formed. I hoped to delay doing anything about it until after your reading. However my regular doctor urged me to have a blood test which I had on March 29th. In the meantime on March 27th I sent you a telegram telling you that I urgently needed the reading of the 25th. You very kindly sent it to me by Air Mail and I received it just as I was leaving on the 29th for the blood test. You advised me to see Dr. Babcock of Temple Hospital while I was hoping to avoid having this cyst removed by surgery and knew Dr. Babcock to be one of the outstanding surgeons in Phila. still I had such confidence in your advice that I immediately made an appointment to see Dr. Babcock. (About eight years ago I had a similar cyst removed by surgery from my left breast). Dr. Babcock removed the cyst by tapping - that is he used a syringe and removed the fluid. He assured me it would never recur in this particular gland. He told me that he averages about three such cases a week. There was no real discomfort with this ‘operation’ - it was all so simply done and by a method I had never heard of - that the whole thing to me was nothing less than a miracle. Also I was much pleased to learn that Dr. Babcock knew of you through a gentleman who lives in … Dr. Babcock had operated on this man found exactly the condition you had described, and that man today is enjoying normal good health. So, Dr. Babcock has much interest in and respect for your advice. On April 5th I received the first hormone injection and expect to have the second and last one - as you advised - the last of next week. Also I followed your instructions for massaging under the arms with Cocoa Butter. I have done it at night and found that the next morning the glands seem less swollen. The diet you suggested has given me the greatest trouble because the other three members of my family are on diets too. I have not eaten any meat of any kind since April 3rd, rarely have fish and have chicken about four or five times a week. I eat a good variety of vegetables and fruit. It is not clear to me what you meant in your reference to ‘juices’ whether fruit and vegetable juices and if I should or should not have such juices. You have said that the chicken should be prepared Kosher. I have not prepared it this way yet as the rest of my family object to it, but am working on the subject. …My blood test shows my blood to be low in iron for which I am taking iron injections twice a week. I suppose this condition will be aggravated since I have stopped eating meat. I have a good appetite, eat heartily but still feel hungry too often. …I understand from your reading that cysts may occur in other parts of my body if there is a chemical unbalance of the hormones. I ask Dr. Babcock if I could have some sort of test or check up to determine the amount of hormone unbalance for future use as well as for the present. He said he did not know of any such reliable test. Can you advise me on this question?”

R2. 7/15/45 Letter: “I was married last summer… I would like a check reading as soon as it can be arranged. Acting on his advice my physical condition is apparently greatly improved. If this is really true, then it might be safe for me to consider having a child. As I am almost 49 years old naturally I do not want to delay more than necessary.”

R3. 5/18/51 Report by her M.D.: “Lumps in right breast discovered 3/15/44, without pain or tenderness or change in size during the 2 weeks after their appearance. A small lump in the left breast disappeared about the time the one in right breast appeared.

“Diagnosis - obstructed duct cyst - which was aspirated with removal of thin fluid and the disappearance of the lump.

“Patient was given 2 injections of estrogenic hormone. On 9/2/46 the patient reported there had been no recurrence of the lumps and that she felt entirely cured.

“Duration of treatment - 3/23/44 - 4/5/44 and 5/1/44.”

R4. 8/10/61 GD’s memo: Mrs. [3808] has remained an active Sponsoring Member of A.R.E. through all these years, though we at A.R.E. Headquarters have never to this day met her personally.

R5. 6/18/66 Article from MEDICINE section of Science News:

Breast Cancer Believed Prevented by Hormones

From the menopause on, women should be treated with female hormones, a New York Medical College professor believes.

The cyclic administration of estrogen and progesterone may well offer a method of reducing the occurrence of breast and genital cancer as well as a means of keeping the mature woman young psychologically and physically, Dr. Henry P. Leis, clinical professor of surgery, reported.

Doctors have long disagreed over the controversial question of giving hormones to menopausal patients, chiefly because of possible cancer-causing effects.

After 10 to 14 years of treatment with female hormones of 158 women ranging from 38 to 54 years at the start, Dr. Leis said none developed cancer of the breast or genital organs and all were spared the climacteric symptoms and harmful metabolic effects of the menopause.

Of 36 women who had had surgical menopause, 29 had had both ovaries and uterus removed. Seventeen of the 158 patients had a family history of breast cancer.

Dr. Leis reported his findings in International Surgery, May 1966.

Background

Background

B1. 3/4/44 Letter: “Cancer is a disease running through my mother’s family. Mother has an advanced case of it now, her mother and her grand-father died with it. What can I do to avoid it? What can I do to get rid of the small lump in my left breast? Is there any part of my body which is especially susceptible to disease and of which I should be particularly careful in the future? I have had hay fever for years. As the spring variety was checked, the fall variety developed. If you have recommended any medical attention (If necessary) doctors in … who can help me and who would be sympathetic to your suggestions and instructions?”

B2. 3/15/44 Letter: “Since writing you a couple weeks ago, I am again having trouble with a lumpiness in my breast, this time in the right one. Some years ago I had a cyst removed from the left breast and of course am apprehensive and dread any more operations. It seems that the secretion of the glands

• milk glands the doctor has said - backs up and causes this thickening or real lump. Since I have had two cysts removed from inside my cheek and two other moles or warts removed from my skin because they suddenly seemed to become active, it does seem I have a tendency to ‘lump-up’ easily. I am told that one of the new theories about cancer is that the person with the disease has a lack of certain hormones. While I do not think I have cancer and most certainly do not want to acquire a phobia on the subject, still I have had enough trouble with cysts to believe I have a tendency or would be especially susceptible to this disease. Any suggestions you can give me to strengthen my resistance to cysts and prevent their forming in any part of my body - and to get rid of the one which seems to be now forming in my right breast, will be most eagerly received. I just dread the thought of any more operations - big or small and am really greatly worried about this condition.”

Mentioned Entities

Glands (Esoteric), A.R.E. (Association for Research and Enlightenment), Gertrude Cayce, Gladys Davis, Massage Therapy, Miracles of Jesus, New York City, Thomas Sugrue, Virginia Beach

Source: The Complete Edgar Cayce Readings, A.R.E. CD-ROM (2006). Reading 3808-1, ReadingID 11382.