This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce in Selma, Alabama (?), in 1921 (?).
P R E S E N T
Edgar Cayce; (?), Conductor; (?), Steno.
R E A D I N G
Time of Reading Unknown.
1. EC: This body in a normal state is good both physically and mentally. It has been developed especially along the physical lines. The action to the system has been a development of the muscles in the physical body, those in the shoulders and upper part of the body. There has been recently, in the past four moons, an accident to the body, which has produced an overtaxed condition to the digestive tract of the body and has especially affected the upper end of the colon, that which is known as the vermiform appendix, until it has produced an inflammation. This inflammation has set up in the appendix itself, until he has what is known as appendicitis.
2. In this action, or reaction from the condition to the rest of the body, we have this fact. It is from a recent accident and not a thing of long standing that has grown in the body through the action of nerves or the digestion.
3. Hence the best remedy to this body would be to remove the appendix by an operation. If the body is left in the condition it is now in, the inflammation as it is at present would produce to the walls of the colon itself a thinning, and the inflammation would so increase that there would be a breaking, or what is known as a rupture.
4. We would advise an operation within the next few days.