I would like to relate an incident where the law of harmony destroyed the laws of matter in the case of a broken bone.
A few months ago a young woman, one who is very faithful in studying Science and Health and trusting to Christian Science to meet every need, sent me a message for absent treatment at childbirth, she living some distance in the country. The birth was easy, the mother looking after her home duties and caring for her babies after the third day. Her first baby was also born under Science treatment two years previous. When her babe was a week old she came to see me, and told me that the day before her baby's birth she had fallen, striking her wrist, which pained her very much till the treatment for childbirth, when all pain ceased, but she had not been able to use her hand since, and her husband thought her wrist broken, and brought her in to see a doctor, but she wanted the Science. I noticed the wrist looked very crooked, and remembering that Science and Health says, p. 400, "Until the advancing age admits the efficacy and supremacy of Mind, it is better to leave surgery and the adjustment of broken bones and dislocations to the fingers of a surgeon, while you confine yourself chiefly to mental reconstruction, and the preventing of inflammation." I told her she had better consult a surgeon as her husband wished, and that she could have the help of Science. I gave her a treatment. A week later she came for another treatment. She said surgeon told her that her wrist was broken, and she would have to carry it in splints six weeks. She said, "I could not do that and take care of my babies," and she preferred trusting to Truth, as she was afraid of the doctor. Her wrist was much better and she could move her fingers. Three weeks later I again saw her. She said her wrist was whole and straight, that she was doing all her work, including her washing.— Rockford, III.
