Reading 534-1

TEXT OF READING 534-1 F 4

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Date: 4/16/1934 Sex: F Age: 4 ReadingID: 3729

This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at his home on Arctic Crescent, Virginia Beach, Virginia, this 16th day of April, 1934, in accordance with request made by Mrs. [255], Active Member of the Ass”n for Research & Enlightenment, Inc., immediately following emergency Ck. Physical 533-2.

[Edgar Cayce; Mildred Davis, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. L. B. Cayce.]

Time of Reading Christ Hospital, 3:40 to 3:45 P. M. Eastern Standard Time. Jersey City, N.J. (Physical Suggestion) [M.D. held newspaper clipping in her hand.]

1. EC: [He repeated name, Theodoria Alosio, about a dozen times before starting with rdg.] Yes, we find the experimentations that are being made with this body are at the present somewhat more hopeful than has been and is ordinarily found in conditions of this nature and character, in one of such stages.

2. Should there continue to be the decrease in the red blood count - don’t make so MUCH disturbance, but - we would suggest that there be first a minute injection to the body of the properties that tend to make for the drying of lymph. Atropine, see? First make this injection - one-eightieth of a grain, hypodermically. Preferably make this in the area near the spleen.

3. In at least three to ten minutes after this is given, or during the period when it is having its effect, give a transfusion that is as near as possible what the normal blood SHOULD have been. See?

4. And immediately after the transfusion begin giving Atomidine internally, three drops four times each day.

5. Also, as the foods, give beef juice and the enzymes that carry the iron - or the Venacular [?] Ventriculin?, vernacular?], that is reduced in strength.

6. And we should save these conditions.

7. Should it continue on the improve from the present applications, forget it! And this depends upon whether one of the things as intended to be done today is done or isn’t done, see?

8. Should there be the response, we find that these applications would be the most effective for those with leukemia, in such stages of development - or ages.

9. (Q) What would you advise regarding diet? (A) Beef juices principally, and the enzymes. Beef juices will make a very well balance, but keep those things that make for gradual building.

10. We are through with this reading.

Two copies to Mrs. [255] Copy to Ass’n file

Reports

Reports & Follow-up

R1. 4/16/34 Immediately following 534-1 Mildred Davis asked EC if he had any experiences during the reading. He said, “The Master was right there by you.” When MD asked what He was doing, EC said “Just looking on,” and explained that He had a beard and seemed to be looking over MD’s shoulder rather than at her.

GD criticized MD for the method in which she gave the suggestion for the two rdgs., saying that GC would have taken 534-1 first, and then the Ck. Physical 533-2, whereas MD gave a First Physical Suggestion at the beginning of 533-2 instead of a Ck. Physical. MD triumphantly stated that it turned out alright, since both [533] and [534] seemed to get a good rdg. [See GD’s note under 534-2, Par. 8-A.]

R2. 4/16/34 GD’s letter to Mrs. [255]: “We are sending the original copy to you also, as you will have to judge by the child’s conditions as to whether the reading should be presented or not.

Apparently, the enzymes are put up under different names. There is an enzyme combination called Ventriculum which carries iron, but in this reading it sounded like VENACULAR. [vernacular?] The doctor should know.

You are familiar with the Atomidine; I’m enclosing one of Dr. Bisey’s booklets on it.

The Atropine would have to be injected by a physician, of course.

I certainly hope this reading has been worth while, and that you can get it followed. It seems that this same treatment would be good for that little Roma Garrett also, who is the same age.

Love. Let us hear.” Gladys

Beef juice directions were also enclosed.]

R3. 4/18/34 Mrs. [255]‘s letter: “Just as the reading came, I was going to send you enclosed clippings, hoping thereby to prevent your giving it. But it is strange, is it not, that the reading did not say the child [534] had passed on on Sunday [4/15/34], the reading taking place on Monday afternoon? Some day please ask for the reason of this - perhaps the child - but then I will not say what I think. I had no idea the time was so short, - well, God did not wish it to be that way. I had hoped to be able to do something worth while for your work, but it was not to be.”

R4. 4/20/34 See 534-2.

R5. 10/28/52 Comment by D. H. Fogel, M.D. (heart specialist), who made a study of the following possible cases of leukemia from the Edgar Cayce records: [13], [534], [1174], [1392], [1905], [2208], [2456], [3000], [3616].

R6. 7/60 See A STUDY OF 7 CASES (16 Readings) OF LEUKEMIA IN THE EDGAR CAYCE RECORDS, prepared by Walter N. Pahnke, M.D.

Background

Background

B1. 4/4/34 Clipping from New Rochelle, N.Y. CITIZEN:

Roma Garrett Improving As Tests Are Made

She is Being Fed On Diet Heavy In Iron And Of High Vitamin Content

Grasslands Hospital had good news of Roma Garrett today. She was holding her own in a battle against practically inevitable death after a day of sinking spells yesterday.

Doctors at the county hospital hope the little Peekskill leukemia victim can live until her fifth birthday next month.

A diet heavy in iron and of high vitamin content has improved the wasted condition of the little patient since she arrived here last Friday. Further course of treatment has not been definitely decided upon.

Leukemia is a recently discovered disease of the blood in which the white blood corpuscles - fighting the never-ending battle in the blood-stream against disease - gain the upper hand also over the red corpuscles. Gradually, slowly, but so far inevitably in spite of everything science can do, the life-giving corpuscles are killed off. The Patient grows weaker and weaker, is overcome in increasing intervals by lassitude, the limbs are heavy with weariness, and finally a coma envelopes all and continues until death.

Roma, the eldest of four children of the Fred O. Garretts of North Division Street, Peekskill, is being treated at present solely through diet.

Further blood tests are being made first to determine whether the white blood corpuscles are being poured into the bloodstream from the lymphatic glands or from the long bones of the arms or legs. Depending on the sources of the disease

• if it can be discovered - the treatment will differ.

X-rays have succeeded in other cases in checking the ravages of the disease and they may be tried for Roma. So long as Roma holds her own doctors will not try X-ray treatment until they determine from blood analyses whether that course is called for.

Blood transfusions have not been considered for her type of leukemia, the doctors said. If she sinks donors will be asked for and transfusions will be given to keep the little girl alive while scientists work against time in the laboratories seeking a preventive or a curative agent.

Meanwhile; Roma remains in good spirits, unaware of the two …[?] and almost hopeless battles going on simultaneously in her blood and in the hospital laboratories. In the one the red blood corpuscles fight for time while medical science in the other seeks to pierce the mystery of the baffling disease. Since its discovery doctors have found leukemia rather common in patients formerly thought to be suffering from anemia or rheumatic fever.

B2. 4/7/34 Clipping from NEW YORK AMERICAN: JOY IN THE SHADOW OF DEATH

Parents of Leukemia Victim Still Hopeful of Recovery

While science says that death is inevitable for four-year-old Theodora Alosio, suffering from leukemia, her parents are clutching at the thin straw of newspaper publicity in the hope that somewhere somebody will read of the case and come forward with a hitherto unknown cure.

The child, resting amiably in her bed at Christ Hospital, Jersey City, may have another blood transfusion today. But Dr. Peter Manno, of the hospital, holds out no hope. For 30 years science has battled the disease and made no progress - by the use of X-ray, radium, transfusions or arsenic. Doctors are no closer to a cure than they have ever been.

Edward Alosio, father of the child, has offered the girl to science, if not to save her life, then to point a way to save the lives of other children. He and his young wife, Anna, offer to do anything helpful.

Leukemia is a blood disease in which the white corpuscles devour the red ones. [GD’s note: See Par. B1 clipping above sent EC by someone else, about the same time, on little 4 yr. old Roma Garrett dying with leukemia in the Grasslands Hospital, New Rochelle, N.Y., hoping EC can do something to help.]

B3. See Source File Key #534 for photos and captions associated with above clippings in re 534-1.

B4. 4/14/34 Mrs. [255]‘s letter: “Mrs. [509] and I just visited this [Alosio] family and feel the mother has an open mind. We hope that you will soon give the reading. Send no copy to Dr. Rubin [H. H. Rubin, M.D.?], just two to me and one to the mother. She hopes her own doctor will take the case. That would be fine. We always have Rubin in the background. Ask about the diet, please.”

Mentioned Entities

Atomidine, Beef Juice, Gladys Davis, Glands (Esoteric), New York City, Peter (Apostle), Radium, Ventriculin, Virginia Beach

Source: The Complete Edgar Cayce Readings, A.R.E. CD-ROM (2006). Reading 534-1, ReadingID 3729.