Reading 3875-1

TEXT OF READING 3875-1 M 3

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Date: 8/30/1923 Sex: M Age: 3 ReadingID: 11503

This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce, in Selma, Alabama, this 30th day of August, 1923, via his aunt.

[Edgar Cayce; L. B. Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Maud Doughty and one other lady, Stenos. Miss Willie Graham, the aunt of [3875].]

Time of Reading 3:30 P. M.

1. EC: Now we find that throughout the system there are those conditions that are abnormal. These may be corrected. They have to do with the nerve system, and the effect that is produced in the functioning organs. Now these are the conditions as we find them in this body, [3875] Jr., we are speaking of.

2. First, in the blood supply in the body there are times when apparently there is too much blood in its action towards the brain, or central forces, as is shown in the carotid artery, for it gives the plethoric effect to the brain proper at times, yet the condition is of the nerve action rather than the blood or functional conditions of the heart itself, see? And by the muscular forces being contracted, or by co-ordination between the centers or between the sympathetic or cerebro-spinal system becoming properly co-ordinated, we would overcome this condition.

3. In the nerve system we find centers as is shown from the circulation as produced through the effect of the perineurial gland and its junction with that of the pneumogastric center with the secondary cardiac, this being relaxed by this produces overtaxed forces to the body. The sympathetic system over-active, that is in the nerve forces we are speaking of.

4. In the cerebro-spinal blood supply that comes from the centers, through the perineurial and secondary cardiac, gives the condition to the stomach through the pneumogastric center in the heart action and lung forces, as is expressed at times in this system. The functioning organs themselves we find as in these conditions. The brain force, except as is shown through the over activity of blood force, very good.

5. Throat, larnyx, thorax, the condition of the throat from excess of secretion through overflow of circulation. Lungs very good for the condition in the centers at seventh dorsal. The heart forces as we have given. That of digestive tract the over activity of the pneumogastric centers is affected sympathetically by the conditions as produced at the [words missing] when the action of the perineurial gland with [words missing] forces become entangled in the blood flow valve.

6. In the liver the action very good, but forced at times to function.

7. To give relief to the body we would produce that vibration in the body that would give the correct incentive for the equalization of circulation and to give the nerve centers the correct vibration to strengthen the centers sufficiently.

8. To overcome these conditions, use that of the Abrams cycloclast [?] [oscilloclast?]* with 37 ohms to the body, the plates being placed at the umbilicus center and the opposite placed on the wrist and at the seventh dorsal.

9. There should be at least forty hours of vibration given this body. Not all at once, but every third day give the vibration.

10. Do that.

[GD’s note: My friend, the aunt of [3875], told me later that the parents did not follow the treatment. All I know is that she spoke of the child as afflicted since birth; he was not a baby at the time the reading was given - but was somewhere under twelve; at least that is my recollection.]

• [See 10/79 Beacon article under 440-16, Par. R4 mentioning Dr. Albert Abrams’ machine, the oscilloclast.]

Reports

Reports & Follow-up

R1. 1/13/70 San Francisco Chronicle Article:

MILLIE’S COLUMN

THE EMINENT MEDIC - TURNED - QUACK

By Millie Robbins

IT WAS just 46 years ago today that Dr. Albert Abrams died in San Francisco, where he had been born 61 years before. Obituaries in the local press were lengthy as were those in other major cities including New York, where the Times ran a story that measured well over a full column of fine print.

Perhaps no more puzzling and controversial character ever was spawned in this city.

Dr. Abrams was pronounced a quack and denounced by his colleagues. However, unlike other who have been branded medical charlatans, he had been well educated, began his career auspiciously, was once highly respected.

In 1882 he received his M.D. degree from the University of Heidelberg, where he was considered a brilliant student, and later studied in London, Paris, Berlin and Vienna. Returning to San Francisco, he became a professor of pathology and director of the clinic at the Cooper Medical College, subsequently part of Stanford University Medical School.

For several years he was a consulting physician at French and Mt. Zion Hospitals. He has been president of the San Francisco Medico-Chircurgical (archaic for “surgical”) Society, vice president of the State Medical Society, and a fellow of the Royal Microscopical Society of London. His name appeared in “Who’s Who.”

Money presumably was no factor in the astounding change that was to come. Dr. Abrams prospered financially and furthermore inherited sizable fortunes upon the deaths of each of his two wealthy wives. But something happened…

In 1912 the medical profession was thrown into an uproar when he announced that by manipulation of certain nerve centers in the body he could relieve ailment hitherto held only curable by the knife.

He developed an electronic reaction theory of diagnosis and once demonstrated how from his office here he could determine the specific areas of illness of a woman patient in Los Angeles. This publicized performance rated a “success,” was done by projecting “radio-activity” over a telephone wire from her to an electrode placed on the spine of a healthy man in this city.

In 1913 he caused another furor by contending that through the play of different colored lights on a prospective mother it would be possible to control the sex of her unborn child.

Another of this claims related to the detectability of romantic feelings.

“The human organism is just a great machine which constantly throws off vibrations,” he told a reporter.

“Love, hate and all other emotions have characteristic vibrations. It will be a simple matter to determine whether one person loves another by isolating the love vibrations and seeing in which direction they go.”

Meanwhile, orthodox physicians seethed and shuddered. Then after a strong attack in the American Medical Association’s Journal, he resigned from that group.

Dr. Abrams regarded himself as another in the long list of scientific pioneers damned in their day only to be later glorified.

We’ll conclude his saga tomorrow. [See Par. R2 below.]

R2. 1/14/70 San Francisco Chronicle article:

LEGACY OF A QUACK

By Millie Robbins

Dr. Albert Abrams, originator of a so-called electronic system of diagnosis and cure whom you met here yesterday, left one of the longest wills ever filed in San Francisco.

A number of relatives and a couple of philanthropic institutions were named as legatees, but a goodly portion of his fortune was earmarked for a medical college and hospital (“where the poor would be treated without charge”), which at the time of his death on January 13, 1924, already was under construction.

This was a ten-story building at Sutter and Hyde Streets. It was to be known as the Blanche (Bachman Schwabacker) and Jeanne (Rath) Abrams College of Electronic Medicine in memory of his two deceased wives. Both had left him considerable money.

But the project soon had to be abandoned, and the building subsequently was transformed into a hotel.

Although his estate was estimated by those acquainted with the doctor’s affairs to have been in the neighborhood of 2.5 million, this proved to be far from correct. It amounted to around 771,000 including, presumable, his handsome home in Sea Cliff, complete with fine pipe organ.

For one thing, when the assets were collected and appraised, it was found that many patents, copyrights, formulas and the like were of dubious value. The inventory numbered such items as a patent for a pants presser and stock in a scheme to harness power from ocean waves.

The rental from medical devices that had brought in a substantial income during his lifetime, decreased almost to nothing after his death. Disciples had paid him large fees for courses of instruction in either his clinic on Sacramento Street or in one of a dozen other schools that had been founded around the Nation.

Each pupil had to lease an “oscilloclast”, paying 200 or more down and 5 a month rent. (The cost of manufacturing these was believed to have been about $30.) Neither that instrument nor any of the other pieces of paraphernalia (one purporting to induce an electric jag!) could be bought outright. Moreover, the oscilloclast lessee had to sign an agreement never to open the sealed box.

Incidentally, while so many of the doctor’s inventions appear to have been completely absurd, a few approached the legitimate mark. He claimed, for instance, to be able not only to diagnose diseases but nationality by testing the vibrations of blood. In fact, in 1922 Judge Thomas Graham admitted as evidence in an alimony suit an electronic blood analysis ostensibly showing that the defendant was the father of the plaintiff’s child.

In 1923 he demonstrated a new “truth detector” for renowned Chief August Vollmer of the Berkeley Police Department. It was so attuned, he said, that it reacted to life and death, could distinguish falsehood from fact, locate missing persons and determine whether a signature was genuine or a forgery.

When Sir Arthur Conan Doyle visited here around the same time, he gave Dr. Abrams a photograph to test. It showed a living man supposedly surrounded by spirits. The contraption gave a reaction indicating that the central figure was a living being and all of the others were negative.

For diverse reasons his estate was involved in litigation for five years, and by the time a settlement was reached it had dwindled to around $100,000.

Exponents of Dr. Abrams’ electronic system still were carrying on to some extent here as recently as 1953 when the U.S. District court secured a permanent injunction to half the distribution of the medical devices.

Background

Background

B1. This was GD’s first reading she took down as EC’s steno.

Mentioned Entities

Vibration, California, England, France, Glands (Esoteric), Alabama, Germany, Gladys Davis, New York City, Photography (Atlantean), Selma Alabama

Source: The Complete Edgar Cayce Readings, A.R.E. CD-ROM (2006). Reading 3875-1, ReadingID 11503.