My Life as a Seer; The lost memoirs by Edgar Cayce

Author:Edgar Cayce
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781466882362
Publisher: St. Martin's Press

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THE CAYCE HOSPITAL, 1929–1931

It was very satisfying to see people coming into the hospital and really getting results, where so many had almost lost hope. Our first man came down from Philadelphia and was here only ten days. He went home feeling entirely a different man. I wish we could do as much good for everyone as we seemingly did for him.

We had an average of ten patients after a few months, and about sixty patients were treated in the first ten months or so, with invariably pleasing results. One patient left the hospital feeling quite well and carrying a bouquet of violets gathered from the flowerbed on the grounds. The hospital itself was really a beautiful place, more like a large home than a real hospital, as Mr. Blumenthal said. It was so delightful that many people, including our own Board of Trustees and officers, were besieging the place on weekends for rest, recreation, and pleasure. This was beginning to complicate affairs, owing to patients in the hospital, so we purchased more property on the other side of the boulevard from the hospital, on which we planned to construct a clubhouse for members of the Board and members of the Association, who desire to be near this beautiful work, and see it in process of application, or to study it, and at the same time enjoy the benefits and beauties of a lovely environment. Since Virginia Beach is noted for the health qualities of iodine and radium present in the sand, sand packs taken at Virginia Beach proved very vitalizing to the system. Morton also wanted to develop a nine-hole golf course, with the clubhouse and swimming pool right on the Beach.

Not all these dreams were realized, but improvements in the facilities were steadily made. A tennis court, shuffleboard and croquet ground were finished during the summer for the visitors’ recreation; bathhouses and a diet kitchen were added. The front porch was glassed in, adding a great deal to the comfort and pleasure of the patients. A new Burdick Light Bath Cabinet was installed, proving a benefit to all who required such treatments. A home for nurses and Association employees was erected. And we were told that there was the possibility that the War Department would grant the use of their land along the coast in front of the hospital. This would make it possible for the Association to improve and beautify the spot and greatly enhance the patients’ opportunities for recreation.

Approximately three thousand visitors came to the hospital in the first year. A large number later applied for more data and also for membership. Among the visitors during the summer months was Chester A. Robinson, a professor in the Bentley School of Accounting and Finance in Boston. Mr. Robinson was greatly interested in the work and had a life reading for himself before returning to Boston to resume his duties. The Reverend Robert B. H. Bell, an author and lecturer of Denver, Colorado, visited the hospital and presented

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