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A forty-three-year-old woman wrote Cayce in desperation after three hospitals and many doctors had been unable to diagnose her “baffling disease.” One doctor had said that the symptoms came nearer to resembling disseminated lupus erythematosus than anything else and the only treatment was rest and keeping out of the sun. She had been doing that for months, she said, and the disfiguring skin eruption was still all over her face and neck.

Cayce correctly described all the symptoms she was experiencing along with the rash—nausea, headache, weakness, poor elimination, and disturbances with the sensory organs.

The trouble, Cayce said, came from a breakdown of the normal channels of elimination, and poisons that should be eliminated through the respiratory system or kidneys were coming out though the skin.

Treatment included application of shortwave electrical appliances to empty the gallbladder and stimulate central forces in the kidneys, and twice-a-week gentle, relaxing massage. She should take internally once a day three to five drops of elixir of lactated pepsin in half a teaspoon of milk of bismuth in one-half to three-quarters of a glass of water.

Later the woman wrote Cayce, “When Dr. Reilly gave me my first therapy, he was sure (he told me later) that I was going to have a nervous breakdown. Now I’m so much better that he doesn’t fear that any more.”

There was a large element of emotional and mental strain in her illness. Her husband had been in prison and she had made great sacrifices to get him home. Then, when he returned, he was mentally ill.

“The worry, the strain, the constant watching resulted, I am sure, in my becoming ill with what the doctors considered an unknown disease. Not one doctor of all those that treated me had ever asked me if I were worried or had any problems,” she wrote.

Today, medical practitioners would immediately look for psychosomatic causes in a skin disease, but not that many years ago. But Cayce was treating the whole person, not symptoms, and already preaching the doctrine that “healing begins in the mind.”