It has been the desire of our family for three years past to express our gratitude for the beautiful and perfect healing of my brother. While he was working on a barbed wire machine in one of our large factories, his leg was caught by a twisted wire and drawn into the machine to his thigh before he was able to shut off the power. His presence of mind in doing that astonished the other workmen and they said it was all that saved him. As it was, the leg was broken; causing an oblique, compound fracture of the leg and completely shattering the ankle bone. He was taken to the hospital and our mother was notified. She immediately telephoned to a Christian Science practitioner.
The surgeon said that nothing whatever could be done but let nature take her course, because of the very bad outward conditions from the effect of the wire. The company's surgeon, and another called in for consultation, told us my brother would be very fortunate if he was able to leave the hospital at the end of six months, that the injury was just as bad as it possibly could be and they could promise absolutely nothing as to the outcome. We were told that the bones could never be set except to be plated together and that the ankle bone was beyond help of any sort; however, an X-ray taken about four months after the accident showed that the slivers had joined the bone in their rightful places. The setting of the leg bones was perfect, also the ankle bone and joint were in perfect condition.
My brother suffered no pain except for about two hours the first night. He was dismissed from the hospital at the end of the fifth week, and at the end of three months from the date of the accident he was walking without any support. The first week in the hospital he awakened one night with a vivid sense as of two people pulling his leg, one at the foot and one at the top, then it felt as though the bones slipped gradually into place. He told me the next day that he was sure the healing took place right then. After his healing they told us at the hospital that no one there expected ever to see him walk again.
