Article December 1, 1898 Issue

CASE OF BONE HEALING

BY SARAH A. DURFEE.

In the summer of 1888 I received a telephone message to come quickly to the residence of one who had been a patient, and who lived over a mile from us. It was not on the streetcar line, so I had to walk. Not knowing the illusion for which I was called, I declared the absolute statements of Christian Science all the way.

On my arrival I found the call was on account of a compound fracture between the elbow and wrist of a very restless, active boy, between two and three years of age. When it occurred two of our most skilful surgeons and medical practitioners were passing, and were called in. They put his arm in splints and bandages, and said he would have a high fever that night, and made the usual decrees of continued inharmony to the mother. When I reached the house the child was quietly asleep, and passed the night without fever, either then or afterwards.

He fretted much that he could not use his hand for the splints, but the doctors ordered them kept on for five or six weeks at the least, but he fretted so that the mother came to me at the end of two weeks and asked what she should do. I told her to take off the splints and bandages, that it was only a law materia medica had made, and that his arm was well. However, without saying anything to me, she took the child to their old family physician, and stating the case (without the Christian Science part), asked what to do. He said, "By no means must you remove the splints or bandages for three or four weeks yet." She went home and the boy worried her so that in two or three days she took them off, and the boy was happy. Feeling very much elated, but saying nothing to me, she took him to the old family physician, who examined his arm and laughing said: "My dear woman, it was never broken or it could not have been healed in so short a time."

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