Chapter 17 Chapter Seventeen

There are a large number of quack doctors in the United States. Although they did not create a "school", they have many followers.It is impossible to dwell on even the main ones, and to do so would require a life's work and a voluminous work.However, there are a few who are remarkable and interesting, and this and the next two chapters are devoted to them. The first great rivers and lakes doctor in the United States was Dr. Elisha Perkins (1740-1799).The doctor created a theory that the metal was able to pull the disease out of the body.In 1796 he patented a medical device consisting of two small rods three inches long.One rod is said to be an alloy of copper, zinc, and gold, and the other an alloy of iron, silver, and platinum.Use the "Perkins patented metal retractor" to pull the diseased part from top to bottom to pull the disease out of the body.

Perkins sold tractors to such dignitaries as George Washington (for use by his whole family) and Chief Justice Oliver Ellsworth for 5 guineas each.His son Benjamin Perkins (Yale Class of 1794) made a fortune selling tractors in England.In Copenhagen, 12 doctors published a rather scholarly book in support of the "Perkins doctrine".Benjamin himself wrote a book on Perkins' theory in 1796, which contains hundreds of gifts from famous people.Among these are doctors, ministers, university professors and MPs.Most people who have studied this theory believe that Perkins Sr. really believed in his tractors, but that his son One (who made his fortune and lived in seclusion in New York City) was nothing more than a fraudulent salesman.

It is worth noting that the orthodox medical profession has generally ignored the Perkins doctrine as a rule.Of course, he got very satisfactory results.Oliver Holmes makes an interesting comment on the Perkinsian theory when he tells of a woman who was quickly cured of wrist pain and shoulder pain using a wooden false retractor.The woman exclaimed, "My God! Who would have thought that those little gadgets could really pull the disease out of me!" Dr. Albert Abrams of San Francisco was one of the most whimsical quacks of all time.His early medical experience was very orthodox. After obtaining a degree from Heidelberg University in 1882, he returned to California to practice medicine. He held important positions in the medical field and wrote more than a dozen well-received textbooks. He published two books in 1909 and 1910, showing that he was dabbling in unfamiliar territory.These two books deal with the diagnostic method by rapid percussion of the spine.Shortly thereafter, Abrams discovered that percussion on the abdomen worked better.His theory was that each disease had its own "vibration rate," so that the sound produced by percussion on the clinic could speak to the patient's condition.

Dr. Abrams' first invention was a diagnostic device called a dynamizer.It's a box with a mess of wires inside.One wire goes to a power source, and the other wire touches the patient's forehead.Take a drop of blood from the patient, put it on a piece of filter paper, and put it in the box.Then the patient was stripped from the upper body and sat facing west (it was never explained why this direction was taken), and Abrams tapped the patient's abdomen.He can diagnose the patient's disease by listening to the knocking sound! This seems unreasonable at first glance, but it turns out to be very particular.Nerve fibers in the spine "vibrate" at different frequencies.The vital meter receives "vibrations" from the blood and sends them to the patient's spine, which distinguishes those different wavelengths and sends them to various parts of the abdomen, where a doctor can diagnose them with skilled percussion.

In addition to diagnosing what disease a patient has, Dr. Abrams is also able to determine the exact location and severity of the disease in the patient.He later found that he could also determine the patient's age, sex, and which of six religious denominations the patient belonged to.These six denominations are: Catholicism, Protestantism, Judaism, Second-Accessionism, Methodism, and Theosophy.Finally, he found that he could make a diagnosis not only from blood, but also from handwriting. The use of handwriting diagnostics opens up wonderful prospects.Abrams began experimenting with the signatures of the deceased.His disciples blindly believed that he discovered that Samuel Johnson, Poe, Wilde, and Pepys all suffered from syphilis, but when he derived the same diagnosis from the signature of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow At that time, they couldn't believe it.

In 1920, Dr. Abrams announced that he had completed a new invention called the "Oscillatory Therapeutic Machine."This machine uses vibration rate for healing.Abrams declared, "Special drugs must have the same vibrational rate as the disease they treat. That's why they cure." But why use drugs?You only need to irradiate the patient with the appropriate radiation waves, and the bacteria can be killed more effectively.Aish Rams also invented the "reflexophone", which allows diagnosis by telephone.He also invented several other ingenious electrical devices.He opened a school to teach students how to use these machines.He published a journal and gave lectures across the country.

Abrams left a fortune of $2 million when he died in 1923.He built his fortune by renting out the Oscillatory Therapy Machine ($250, never for sale) and charging an additional $200 for teaching how to use it.Hundreds of quacks rent the machines, bringing in about $1,500 a month for Abrams.These doctors were sworn never to look inside the tightly sealed box.Shortly before Abrams' death, however, a committee of scientists opened one of the boxes and produced a report on what it saw.Inside the box were ohmmeters, rheostats, capacitors, and other electrical parts, all connected together in a haphazard mess of wires.

One would think that no sane person would have believed such nonsense; however, quite a few very learned people have been taken in by him.The most famous of Abrams' disciples was Upton Sinclair.He wrote many articles in magazines praising the doctor.In his "Book of Life" (1921), he enthusiastically introduced Abrams' diagnostic device.He writes, "before our eyes arose the wonderful image of a new race, "a race made purer and more fit for life. … .Those of you who suffer, take my advice and learn about this new thing and help spread it," When the Journal of the American Medical Association attacked Dr. Abrams, Sinclair bristled and replied, "He has made the most revolutionary discovery ever made. I would bet my reputation that he has Discovered the mysteries of diagnosis and treatment of all major diseases. He used his sensitive fingers to percusse 15,000 people, which is proof. According to my investigation, he cured more than 95% of the patients."

A skeptical AMA sent a blood sample of a healthy male guinea pig in Miss Bell's name to a doctor in Albuquerque who was using Abrams' therapy.They received reports that Miss Bell had a "6 ohm cancer", an infection of the left frontal sinus and a strep infection of the left fallopian tube.A doctor in Michigan sent Abrams himself a blood sample from a Plymouth rooster, and the resulting diagnosis was malaria, cancer, diabetes, and two venereal diseases. The book of life, published after Abrams's death)) The revised 1926 edition is Sinclair's conclusion on this issue.It did not worry Sinclair in the slightest when the doctor's methods failed utterly when tested by the medical profession.Sinclair pointed out that when Abrams built his device, he was the only one using radio waves.But when he was challenged, the air was filled with "complex waves from innumerable radio stations." Naturally, this interference caused serious harm to his machinery, so, in Sinclair's words, "In fact, the old man died out of bewilderment and chagrin."

Responding to the accusations, Sinclair wrote, "I think there is absolutely no way that Albert Abrams was a willful liar. I have known many scientists, but no one ... believed more strongly than he The veracity of his own theories. Abrams worked day and night, never resting, and so to speak, that is how he died. His writings are a treasure trove of wonderful and illuminating ideas. Now that he is dead, almost Every week I come across a report of some new discovery...that makes me cry out: 'Another Abrams!'...People say Albert Abrams is a 'Madman'; but I predict that, if one day explores his leaps in thought, people will find that each of his leaps has a reason"

These words fully demonstrate how blindly a believer must follow the absurd theories of supernatural paranoia!It is surprising that Sinclair does not present Abrams' achievement as a cure for faith. In a 1914 serial for Hearst's Magazine, Sinclair described his experiments in the application of this medical technique, and later wrote, "...if you put your hands on a patient and make a picture in your mind You get a clear picture of the change you want to make in him, and focus your mental powers on it, and you get amazing results, even better if you have a little psychic power." However, just then The invention of radio made it easy to imagine that radio waves had some therapeutic effect, just as it was easy for followers of Perkins to imagine that his tractor had some relationship to the newly discovered electric current. Since the days of Abrams, hundreds of similar electrical devices have made their inventors huge fortunes.In Los Angeles, for example, Dr. Roone DeLoun now uses an Abrams-style machine that diagnoses diseases based on the "vibrations" of blood samples.She kept reams of blotting paper with blood samples from all of her patients.She puts the patient's blood sample into another machine, then tunes the frequency of the machine to match this patient, and she can send therapeutic rays to the patient who is staying at home!An issue of her journal, The Delaune Journal of Radiotherapy, featured a photograph of her "broadcasting room," showing dozens of control panels along the walls that could treat dozens of patients simultaneously. , regardless of where these people were at the time.When Tyrone Ball and his wife were involved in a car accident in Italy a few years ago, they were being treated with shortwave therapy from Delaune in California.Of course, Dr. Delaune eventually had to have a more physical contact with the patient.She sent them the bill. Exactly how Delaune's device worked is not well understood, but the doctor's books Science and Principles of Delaune's Radiotherapy (1938) and Delaune's Theory of Radiotherapy and Radiovisual Apparatus and Technology (1939), they are introduced.These writings also describe Delaune's two other machines: one that "radiographs" bodily organs, and another that uses radio waves to stop bleeding.Delaune's more recent book was published in 1946 as Wisdom from the Atlantic Islands. Mrs. DeLoun gained her knowledge of electronics by working in the electrical assembly department of the Southern California Edison Company.Her first invention was completed in 1929.Since then, she has been using radiotherapy and selling her machines to chiropractic, osteopathic and naturopathic doctors across the country.Mrs. Delaune herself is a licensed osteopath and a member of the American Naturopathic Association. A few years ago some dignitaries in Chicago were so moved by Mrs. Delaunay's work that they persuaded the chair of the Biology Department at the University of Chicago to conduct a detailed investigation.During the experiment, Dr. Deloun personally operated the machine, and the result was a complete failure (see "Journal of the American Medical Association" on February 18, 1950 for details).She gets blood samples from 10 patients.She was so wrong with the diagnosis of the first three that she refused to continue the experiment with the remaining seven.Here is her diagnosis of a patient with tuberculosis: "...type IV cancer of the left breast, spread to ovaries, uterus, pancreas, gallbladder, spleen, and kidneys." The patient was also diagnosed blind in the right eye and had a blood pressure of 107/71, the ovary does not produce eggs, and the pancreas, adrenal gland, pituitary gland, uterus, right ovary, parathyroid gland, spleen, heart, liver, gallbladder, kidney, lungs, stomach, spinal nerves, intestinal tract and Poor function of organs such as ears. The committee investigating Dr. Delaune judged her method of diagnosis as follows; She was 'right' when it came to a disease. But in this trial, she didn't even have that good luck." Regarding Mrs. Delaune's "radiographies," the committee said, "We found that the images on the film which attracted the attention of Mrs. Delaune and her disciples were nothing more than fogs caused by exposure to the light before the film was mounted. Before Mrs. Delaune processed these films, whether they were put in the machine or not, the images were very similar. From many old films that Mrs. Delaune showed us, we could not see anything similar to what she said. Structures, adaptations, bacteria, etc. In short, our opinion is that the so-called Delaune radiographs are purely artificial and of no clinical value." In a final experiment, Mrs. Delaune tried to use radio waves to stop the bleeding of an anesthetized laboratory animal.The council reported that the animal continued to bleed so much that "her friends couldn't bear to look at it any longer".Still, Mrs. Delaune has thousands of patients.Her machine is especially popular with chiropractors in Chicago, where some osteopaths still use it. Another popular form of radiation therapy was 'discovered' 35 years ago by an obscure doctor named Abbot Kay.He discovered a mysterious substance called "vrilium".The name comes from vril, the cosmic energy used by the super race in Bulwer-Lytton's fantasy The Race of the Future (1871).Miss Blavatsky often wrote about "Freer," which she said the Atlantic Islanders had mastered, and which was the motive force behind John Keely's perpetual motion machine. In the 1920s, a merchant named Robert Nelson sold a small copper cylinder, about 2 inches high, that supposedly contained a freelon.People pin it on their lapels or hang it around their necks, and it emits rays up to 20 feet away, keeping germs out and killing bacteria in the body, Nelson said.After Nelson's death, his son Robert Nelson Jr. set up a big business for the production of this "magic nail" and sold it at a high price of $300 each.Some of Chicago's political dignitaries, including former Mayor Kelly, have worn the cylinders."I don't want to say I know why it works, but it takes away the pain. It helps me and my wife," Kelly told reporters. It wasn't until 1950, when the government indicted Freelon Products It was revealed that the cylinder contained nothing but cheap rodenticide.The government pointed out that the cylinders did not elicit a reaction on the Geiger counters, to which Nelson said, "I believe there is a radioactivity unknown to man." Florida-based naturopathic doctor Fred Erbtet uses another exotic device.He has a "wave heat treatment machine", which can miraculously cure various incurable diseases by sending weak electric currents into the body.There are various models of this machine, and the price ranges from 1500 to 3000 US dollars.It is said that this machine can cure arthritis, but Dr. Erb Tate himself has to sit in a wheelchair because of the disease, but this has not affected the trust of patients in him."Professor" William Estep wrote the 742-page medical treatise Eternal Wisdom and Health (self-published 1932).He's the inventor of another healing machine that's been in and out of prisons in Southern states for years.This machine is called an "estemeter," but I have never been able to understand its use and purpose. Perhaps the biggest quack was Colonel Dinza Gadiali, 80, of Malaga, New Jersey. For 30 years he has been treating patients with colored light.The colonel was born in Bombay in 1873, came to the United States in 1911, and became a naturalized American in 1917.During World War I, he served as the commanding officer of the New York Police Reserve Flying Corps, which was a compulsory service, which is where he got the rank of "Colonel."The government sanctioned him a few years ago with a total fine of $20,000 and a three-year suspended sentence. In 1920 Gadiali "discovered" spectrochrome therapy therapy).The theory of this therapy is very simple.Every disease can be cured by a proper diet coupled with the right "tone" of colored light.The spectral color separation machine made by Gadiali is equipped with a strong light source, and a piece of appropriately selected colored glass is placed in front of the light source.For example, if you have diabetes, you can eat lots of starches and brown sugar and alternately shine yellow and magenta light on your body.Early gonorrhea requires green or blue-green light.Crimson enhances libido, while purple suppresses it.In addition to the special diet required for each disease, patients are not to smoke, drink alcohol, eat meat, drink tea or coffee, and sleep with their heads facing north.All this is presented in fascinating detail in Gadiali's 3-volume Encyclopedia of Spectral Color Separations and several smaller tomes, as well as his monthly journal Spectral Color Separations. In 1925, Gadi Ali was arrested in Seattle while on a lecture tour and sentenced to five years in the Atlanta Prison under the Mann Law.He later published a two-volume book, Framed Citizenship, in which he blamed this unjust "persecution" on the Pharmaceutical Trust, the Ku Klux Klan, Catholics, blacks, Henry Ford, the Justice Department, and U.K.In his book, he cites the rather lurid parts of the trial.In that segment his underage secretary accused him of rape, forcing her to perform "various unnatural acts" and later forcing her to have an abortion.Gadi Ali quoted this testimony to accuse the girl of lying.Unfortunately, the reader gets the opposite impression. Since 1924, Gadiali's Spectral Color Separation Research Institute has been based on a 50-acre site in Malaga, New Jersey.The slogan on the fence reads, "Our goal: a spectral color separation machine for every family." More than 10,000 people have obtained the membership of the research association at a price of 90 US dollars, and thus enjoy the right to rent a spectral color separation machine. Plus an "indicator" that indicates the best time of day to use the machine.In addition, new members can also study in Malaga for two weeks for $250.Photographs in Gadi Alli's book, showing him working in his lab in Malaga, are identical to those of the mad scientist in the stills from the D-movie. During the latest trial, Ghadi Ali had no trouble finding 112 witnesses to testify to their miraculous recovery from colored light treatments.There is a chromatic phototherapy that kills.One person recounted how Gadi Alli advised his diabetic father to stop taking insulin and switch to colored light therapy.His father only lived 3 weeks. Gadiali isn't the only one advocating color light therapy.The remedy has a long and troubled history, mostly associated with occult oral traditions. In 1861, there was a general in the United States, Augustus Pleasanton, who believed that sunlight through blue glass had healing properties.His book The Blue Rays of the Sun and the Effect of the Blue Sky was published in 1871, printed on blue paper.Subsequently, Dr. Seth Pancost of Philadelphia published a book entitled "Blue Light and Red Light", printed in blue letters on white paper, and each page was set with a red border.Dr. Pankoster believed that blue was effective for some diseases and red for others.In the 1870s, these ideas sparked a modest "blue glass mania" among New Englanders. A superstition "I am" (I am) started by Ballard am) also emphasizes the spiritual and physical role of color.Los Angeles-based homeopath and mystic George White has long recommended "rithmo-duo color therapy" in his many writings. therapy).He also recommends the "biodgnamochromatic diagnostic method" (biodgnamochromatic Diagnosis), this method is to shine colored light on the patient's abdomen, and then perform percussion like Dr. Abrams.Dr. Charles Littlefield's "Rainlight" therapy has been discussed earlier in this book.In the UK some people who use magic pendulums are combining radiation induction with color therapy.They use a magic pendulum to determine which color the patient's body and needs are.Bruce Coppen wrote in the January 1952 issue of The Magic Pendulum, "Color therapy is a promising science, and combining it with radiosensing would make a good cure, since any The response elicited by the therapeutic effect of a color.) The government's failure to convict Dr. William Corker of Detroit, in two blockbuster trials in 1943 and 1946, shows how difficult it is to convict quacks of Feegey.Dr. Koch is known as the best educated and most successful cancer physician in the history of the United States.Born in Detroit in 1885, he graduated from the University of Michigan in 1919, where he received his Ph.D. in chemistry in 1917. In 1918, he received his medical degree from Wayne University Detroit School of Medicine.From 1910 to 1913 he taught histology and embryology at the University of Michigan, and from 1914 to 1919 he was a professor of physiology at the Detroit School of Medicine.His two books, Cancer and its Related Diseases (first published in 1929, revised in 1933) and Natural Immunochemistry (1938), are two of the most deceitful books on pseudo-medicine in the entire history of pseudoscience. In 1919, Dr. Koch first announced that he had "discovered" a panacea known as "glyoxylide."He claimed that it was a catalyst, synthesized by complex methods, which, when injected into patients suffering from any known disease, including cancer, tuberculosis, and leprosy, cured more than 80 percent of the patients.The catalyst doesn't attack the disease directly, Koch explained.It simply makes the body so strong that healing powers are produced in the body itself. Injections are often given only once.California osteopath Wendell Hendricks claims to have treated 3,000 patients with Koch's method.He likens the injection to a car's starter button.In a pamphlet he wrote, "Cock's catalyst can be seen as a starter, once the healing process has started, the healing process itself provides fuel to the body.  …" In some cases it can be used as A second injection, or several injections in the treatment of difficult diseases such as cancer.For decades, doctors using the Cork treatment have charged $300 or more per injection.In the late 1940s, Koch charged $25 for a two-milliliter vial of acetaldehyde, which he estimated earned him $100,000 a year. There is no doubt that the Cork treatment has no value.Government chemists confirmed in 1943 that Cork's acetaldehyde was indistinguishable from distilled water.However, there are still many "doctors" (mostly osteopathic doctors and chiropractic doctors) across the country who are still using Cork's injections. In 1949, Senator William Lange of North Dakota went so far as to include in Hansard a report on the supposed success of the Cork Injection in treating sick cattle!Koch quickly copied the report and distributed it widely. In recent years, Koch has cloaked his activities in a Protestant fundamentalist cloak.He reorganized the Cork Cancer Foundation into the Detroit Christian Medical Research Association, which now supplies the catalyst.Gerald Winrod was a fundamentalist agitator from Wichita, Kansas, who was tried for Nazi agitation during World War II.He had been promoting Cork vigorously in his hate-inciting publication, The Defender. In 1950, Winrod published a book titled "The New Science of Healing Disease", which praised Koch as a great medical genius and compared his "persecution" by the American Medical Association to the treatment of Semel. Persecution of Weiss.An organization in Detroit called the Lutheran Research Association (no relation to the Lutheran Church) is also publishing a book advocating for Cork and a magazine called The 11th Hour, which Also against Communism and Jews. The government dropped the charges against Cork in 1948 after two trials that failed to convict him.In 1942, though, the FTC managed to pass a temporary injunction against advertisements for his drug.He is currently practicing medicine in Rio de Janeiro, and there are signs that South America is as lucrative a place as the North American continent. No chapter would be complete without addressing some of the arcane areas of quack medicine.However, this subject area is too broad, even if it is impossible to summarize it, there are a few characters who stand out and attract people's attention. British surgeon Kenneth Walker's most recent book, Curiosities (1951), revived interest in Georgi Ivanovich Gurdiev.Gurdiev is a Russian-born Greek.The only work he published was the parable of Beelzebub, modestly titled All-encompassing.The book is almost as unreadable as Ms Blavatsky's.In the 1920s, Gurdiev's "Society for the Harmonious Development of Human Beings" near Paris attracted several hundred intellectual followers, including the British writer Catherine Mansfield.She later died there.Another enthusiast is Margaret Anderson, editor of an American avant-garde magazine.Her recently published autobiography "Rolling Fountain" introduces the situation of the Gurdiyev movement. Gurdiev's medical views are difficult to state precisely.It seems to be a mixture of yoga school and other mystical schools, and there is no lack of original things in it.His therapy consisted of tree-felling movements and complex choreographies (he once directed an oriental ballet troupe in Moscow), accompanied by compositions of his own composition.It is likely that Mansfield hastened his own death because of such "cures".The cure is to live in a cowshed, where you can breathe the air the cows exhale. Gurdiev's most active disciple was Peter Ospensky, who founded the Gurdiev Institute in London and wrote several large books expounding on his teacher's "doctrine".Like Miss Blavatsky, Gurdiev claimed to have acquired his teachings from "enlightened men" in remote Eastern monasteries.Ospensky's teachings are mixed with a large number of esoteric revelations, have nothing to do with science, and therefore do not belong to the treatment of this book.He died in 1947, two years before Gurdiev's. As far as the author of this book is aware, only the notorious tower built by the English occultist Aleister Crowley near Cefalu, Sicily, surpassed Gurdiev in terms of absurdity and stupidity. monastery.It is said that the monastery teaches the teachings of yoga and self-discipline, but in fact it mainly gives instructions on drinking and imbibing water.When an English poet died there, an angry protest erupted in Sicily and Crowley had to emigrate to Tunisia.Somerset Maugham's novel "The Magician" is based on Crowley's story.Maugham and Arnold Bennett shared an apartment with him in Paris.Crowley is a demonic mishmash of poets, painters, occultists, mountaineers, chess players, con men, psychopaths, drug addicts, and satyrs, which is not the place for this book.To learn more about him, read John Symond's Behemoth, or some of Crowley's mystical poems, or his writings on witchcraft. Diagnosing diseases and providing alchemy has always been a way for wizards to make money.Their messages might come from God, or from the spirits of the dead, or from superhuman vision.Andrew Davis, known as "The Prophet of Poughkeepsie," practiced this type of medicine for 35 years in New England during the second half of the nineteenth century.He even wrote a 5-volume work entitled Harmony of Vientiane to describe his visions.But the most famous witchcraft diagnostician was undoubtedly Edgar Cayce of Hopkinsville, Kentucky.When he died in 1945, he left behind a complete shorthand record of 30,000 medical "diagnoses" made over 43 years. "There Was a River" (1943), written by American Catholic writer Thomas Saglu, is the best reference on Cayce.The book is similar in many ways to Kenneth Roberts's work extolling Henry Gross' Wand.Saglu is a close friend of Casey, and fully believes in the latter's psychic abilities.Like Roberts, he recounts his friend's abilities in a novel-like fashion.The book does not provide an objective description of Cayce's medical skills, but it does provide a vivid picture of the character and his experiences. When she was a child, Casey liked to dream and was introverted.He plays with imaginary buddies, can see visions of his late grandfather, and once talks to a winged angel.He is deeply religious (Catholic).He reads through the Bible once a year.Although he only has a 9th grade education, he has read a lot and once worked in a bookstore.Sagru emphasizes that Cayce was a simple and uneducated person, and could not have possessed the knowledge he uttered during the spirit possession, but it is far more reasonable to assume that he acquired it through reading and socializing with friends. A lot of knowledge, but consciously forget this knowledge. There is no doubt that Casey's spirit possession is real.His method was to lie on his back facing south (later changed to head north) and put himself in a state of self-hypnosis.Usually the patient was present, but not always, since Kathy had written thousands of patients.The diagnosis begins with the words: "Yes, we have bodies." Then he proceeds to a haphazard diagnosis of etiology, using terms largely borrowed from osteopathy and homeopathy. Most of Casey's early spirit possessions relied on the help of osteopathic doctors.The doctor asked him questions while he was asleep, and then helped him explain the diagnosis to the patient.It is well documented that Cayce's early association with osteopathic and homeopathic physicians had a significant influence on his diagnosis.Again and again he found this or that spinal lesion to be the cause of some disease, and suggested chiropractic treatment.Below is a passage from Kathy's diagnosis for his wife, who was suffering from tuberculosis at the time. The physical condition is very different from the previous examination, ... from the head, along the back from the Pain from the 2nd, 5th and 6th vertebrae and from the 1st and 2nd lumbar vertebrae, ... here are Several stagnant nodes with floating lesions in the muscle and nerve fibers supporting the lung bases and diaphragm or lateral lesions, ... are connected to the sympathetic nerves of the abdominal plexus, which in turn communicate with the ventral The cavities are connected. ... It's the common language of osteopathic doctors, but hardly anyone else understands it.Saglu noted the case of a priest who wrote to Cayce asking for advice on a similar epilepsy.Cayce suggested osteopathic treatment, "Pay special attention to the subluxation of the middle and lower parts of the 9th vertebra or the 9th, 10th and 11th vertebrae. The reconstruction of these parts should be combined with the lumbar center and the upper middle part of the spine and the middle part of the neck. The treatment is coordinated with each other, and it only needs to do 6 restorations at most to recover." In addition to chiropractic, Cayce advocated a wide variety of remedies copied from homeopathy and naturopathic remedies, with occasional subconscious inventions of his own, including special foods, supplements, Herbal remedies, electrotherapy, and various "remedies" such as "smoke oil" (for leg pain), "peach poultice" (for infantile spasms), "bug liquid" (for puffiness), "castor oil wrap" (for the aforementioned used by priests), almonds (to prevent cancer), massage with peanut oil (to prevent arthritis), bamboo ash (to cure tuberculosis and other diseases), apple brandy from a charred barrel (to inhale for a tuberculosis wife) .Saglu admitted, "From these treatments, it seems impossible to deduce a system or theory of healing." This is naturally a stupid and oblique evasion. Later, Cayce and his colleagues actually manufactured and sold some of the medicines he discovered while in the spirit.Such things included "Ipsab" (for pyorrhea), "Tim" (for hemorrhoids), hay fever inhalants, and various radiotherapy and electrotherapy devices.One of his diagnoses suggested that the patient tie the copper anode of the battery to the middle of the 3rd nerve plexus on the back, while the nickel anode (suspected to be the cathode—translator) was tied first to the left ankle and then to the right ankle .From a medical point of view, of course, none of these remedies is worth anything. 最后，凯西对神秘主义文献发生了兴趣，通过在魂灵附体状态下回答各种玄奥的问题，逐渐形成为一种复杂的神秘哲学。根据萨格鲁的概述来看，这种哲学似乎是基督教、星占学、金字塔学、通灵学以及种种神秘学的大杂烩。他说人的意识位于脑的垂体中。离开太阳系的灵魂的下一个停留处是大角星，如此此类等等。这都是从神秘主义文献中抬来的零碎，偶尔夹杂一些凯西下意识中想出来的新花样。 凯西成为一个坚定的神秘主义者，他毫不困难地使自己的新观点和基督教协调起来。基督就是一位“得道者”，他没有把他的所知全都宣讲出来。除了作医学诊断之外，凯西开始“算命”，也就是为人讲述他前世的化身。按骨学方面的病因让位于“羯磨”（前世积累的善恶）所种下的病因。为了研究这些启示而成立起一个学会，并出版一份名为《新未来》的季刊。后来，设在弗吉尼亚州弗吉尼亚海滩的“研究与启蒙协会”接收了凯西所作的记录，现在正在出版这方面的资料。这类文献的典型是凯西于1945年出版的一本题为《辉光》的小册子，书前有萨格鲁写的序言。凯西在书中说他生来有一种能力，能看见每个人头部和肩部周围的有色辉光，他能根据辉光的色彩判断人的个性和健康状况，并预言利用色彩治病终究会成为医学的一个领域（神秘主义文献中有许多书籍和文章介绍参看所谓的“人体辉光”和对辉光照相以至测量辉光的技术。可惜，只有神秘学家才能成功地运用这些技术）。许多研究凯西的团体正在几个大城市举行会议，如果对他的兴趣继续增长，他在现代神秘学中可能会与布拉瓦茨基女士比肩而立了。 凯西的样子倒是诚实的。他似乎对自己的独特天赋常常感到惊讶和迷惑不解，担心它可能是罪恶的根源，但他至死深信他的秉赋来自上帝。 尽管有成千上万的人相信他们是被凯西在魂灵附体时说出的治疗方法而治愈的，但在许多病例中甚至最初的诊断就大错特错。这倒是不难解释。萨格鲁天真地写道，如果病人对这种做法抱有“怀疑”，诊断就不会准确。由于几乎每一个人都会有某种怀疑，而如果诊断显然错误，他就会马上说出这种怀疑（诊断正确就不必说了），因此很难看出怎样才能找到证据来动摇凯西的信徒对他的信仰。 然而，萨格鲁的确记录了下面的事实：当凯西为杜克大学的约瑟夫·莱因博士的女儿所作诊断与实际情况不符时，莱因博士也对他不以为然。按道理说，如果有谁对凯西的超人能力抱有好感的话，那个人应该是莱因博士，但毫无疑问，萨格鲁觉得这位教授抱有“怀疑”，干扰了他的诊断。