Believing that cases of surgery are of particular interest to students of Christian Science, I take great pleasure in telling of the wonderful demonstration which was recently made by members of my own family.
My youngest son, a lad of sixteen, was at the home of his chum when his friend recklessly flourished a shotgun, not thinking it was loaded; aimed it at my son, drew the trigger, and the result was that about eighty of the birdshot entered his face just under the eye.
The friends where the accident happened were not Scientists so at once called a surgeon. He came, pronounced the case serious, washed and bound up the boy's face, and brought him home in a carriage. The surgeon at once informed me of the alarming nature of the accident, saying that the complications would be very serious owing to the injury to the bone, as the gun had been fired at such close range the shot had penetrated the bone and could not be removed. Blood poisoning, lockjaw, loss of eye, and disfigurement for life, he said, was what I might expect.
