Reading 4970-1

TEXT OF READING 4970-1 M ADULT

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Date: 8/0/1909 Sex: M ReadingID: 13080

This Psychic Reading given by Edgar Cayce in Hopkinsville, Ky., August, 1909.

[Edgar Cayce; (?), Conductor; (?), Steno.]

Time of Reading Unknown. Reading is not on file with Edgar Cayce Foundation or elsewhere according to available records. [See 4970-1 Reports, especially Par. R2 and R5.]

Reports

Reports & Follow-up

R1. 8/21/09 Cousin [4845]‘s ltr. L. B. Cayce:

L. B. Cayce, Esq. Hopkinsville, Ky.

Dear Sir:

Diagnosis of [4970] very thankfully received and referred to him. He says conditions are EXACTLY as related therein. Have also referred it to his physician who promises to take the matter up with you again. I feel that there is some enlightenment now in the matter and that there ought to be good results from treatment suggested. Think diagnosis is indeed remarkable. For me, please convey to your son the heartiest good will from Mr. [4970] and family. The Doctor promises to give the matter attention.

Very truly, [4845]

R2. 10/9/10 THE NEW YORK TIMES article entitled ILLITERATE MAN BECOMES DOCTOR WHEN HYPNOTIZED, quoted Mr. [4970]‘s second reading as follows:

Recently Mr Cayce was given for a second interpretation the case of a man living in Indiana, and when asked by his father to tell whether he had read the case before and to describe the present condition, he said:

“Yes, I have had him before. Some little difference in his case this time. Resting easy now; heart action not so bad; rest produced by an anesthetic. We find this body suffering from smothering spells, short breath, depression of the heart, and very weak at times. Pains in the head, especially through the base of the head, the first and second cervical, and front part of the head and eyes; circulation is very poor.

“In the first and second cervical we have a lesion there which is from the reflex action from the pain we have below, and gives off pains to the head at times and especially to the face and facial muscles. This all comes through a sympathetic nervous system.

“Now, at the seventh and eighth to the tenth dorsal vertebrae, reaching the solar plexus, we find a bad lesion, especially where it comes in contact with the nerves governing the heart and hepatic circulation just below the left lung. The trouble first began here. We see a congestion caused from a cold in the left lung contracted from the exterior, producing a choking up of the lung and treated locally and externally on the side.

“This filling up caused not enough air in the lungs and produced the lesion we have just above the solar plexus or nerve center which controls the whole digestive organs of the body, and the congestion we have here in the lumbar region has produced locomotor ataxia and a withering away of the limbs; especially is this most noticeable in the right limb, and producing a very bad state in the pelvic region.

“We find the same thing through the circulatory system of the blood. The blood is very weak; the red corpuscles are more numerous than they should be, with not enough of the white tissue to build up the body. Where we have a loss of white blood tissue we have the same in the gray matter in the nerve force.

“Not all the nerve force of the body has been destroyed. We have weak and then strong spells because the circulation is weak, especially the capillary, with a heart action strong at times, producing palpitation of the heart and smothering spells, dizziness of the head, and the same of the solar plexus system, causing the emitting from the stomach of the things taken into it.

“We have no organic heart trouble and very little of the lungs, but some enlargement of the liver. In the left lobe of the liver we find a granular substance from medicines taken in through the stomach and bowels. The liver is not doing its work in throwing off the bile and waste matter of the body. That produces the enlargement of the liver.

“We have altogether a very weak and bedridden man, but he can be cured. To correct this trouble, first reduce the inflammation, then by giving plenty of pure water, with alkaline treatment, the acid will be reduced. A tincture of iron for toning up the digestive organs and blood, and static electrical treatment along the spine not very strong along the upper cervical, for this is near the brain, but very strong through the dorsal and lumbar regions. Give digitalis and strychnine to tone up the nerves and heart. With plenty of rest and fresh air we will have the man improved.”

R3. 5/31/27 His cousin, Mr. [4845] requested his own appointment, saying: “Following your reading made some twenty years ago for a relative, [4970], of …, Ind., I am thoroughly convinced of the correctness of the diagnosis so far as I can know by observing a post mortem examination. Mr. [4970]‘s condition at time of your reading was past relief. I have told of your wonderful reading in that case very many times.”

R4. 6/3/34 Mr. [4970]‘s cousin’s sister-in-law, Mrs. [639], wrote: “My husband’s brother, Mr. [4845], is the one who learned of you through a traveling man, calling at his store, possibly thirty years ago, when he wrote you at Hopkinsville, Ky., for a reading of his cousin, Mr. [4970].”

R5. 10/16/72 Dr. Wm. A. McGarey’s letter to GD in re proper indexing of 4970-1:

A.R.E. CLINIC, Ltd. (Letterhead) 4018 North 40th Street, Phoenix, Arizona 85018

William A. McGarey, M.D. Director Gladys T. McGarey, M.D. Arthur F. Wright, M.D. Ray O. Bjork, M.D.

Dear Gladys:

I’ve gone through the reading which was printed in the New York Times, and I’ve listed a few things which I think may be put in your index at the front. It’s very difficult to take a real diagnosis from the story of the reading as it’s given. The closest I can come to it is a degenerative nervous system disease, and that’s about it. He calls it in one place locomotor ataxia, but that’s the word that’s given for syphilis in its final stages, and I don’t know whether he meant that or not. He didn’t describe anything of that nature, so I question that. And he didn’t give any therapy that has been suggested in the readings for syphilis either. So the locomotor ataxia is not a good name for tertiary syphilis but is used sometimes, and people might think that that would be it. But it is not.

Liver enlargement and leukopenia - leukopenia, of course, means lack of white blood cells. Simply polycythemia means too many red cells. He saw too many of those, and they weren’t doing the job anyway, and that’s apparently the way a body works.

So, the following list, then, is what I found to be my minor contribution to your efforts.

Lesion: 1st & 2nd cervical, 7th & 8th to 10th dorsal, solar plexus Locomotor Ataxia Degenerative Nervous System Disease Liver: Enlargement Leukopenia Polycythemia, Simple

The hydrocephalus case you mention in your “P.S.” was reported on at the 1970 medical symposium here in Phoenix. It has not been written up anywhere.

Gladys and I both send you our love and regards.

Sincerely, [signed] Bill William A. McGarey, M.D. W/c Encl.

Background

Background

B1. 8/12 (?)/09 His cousin, Mr. [4845] obtained 4970-1 for him. No copy of this reading is on file. However, see 4970-1, Par. R1 for his cousin’s letter in reply.

Mentioned Entities

Arizona, Gladys Davis, Hopkinsville, A.R.E. (Association for Research and Enlightenment), Alkaline Diet, Book of Job, New York City

Source: The Complete Edgar Cayce Readings, A.R.E. CD-ROM (2006). Reading 4970-1, ReadingID 13080.