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  	                         A CASE OF MENTAL SURGERY 

24         I have felt for some time I should give my experience
	in mental surgery. In May, 1902, going home for
  	lunch, on a bicycle, and while riding down a hill at a
27     rapid gait, I was thrown from the wheel, and falling
	on my left side with my arm under my head, the bone
  	was broken about half-way between the shoulder and
30    elbow. While the pain was intense, I lay still in the dust,
 1     declaring the truth and denying that there could
	be a break or accident in the realm of divine Love,
 3     until a gentleman came to assist me, saying, he
  	thought I had been stunned. I was only two and a
        half blocks from home, so I mounted my wheel again
 6    and managed to reach it.  On arriving there I lay
  	down and asked my little boy to bring me our text-
	book. He immediately brought Science and Health,
 9     which I read for about ten minutes, when all pain left. 
  	    I said nothing to my family of the accident, but at-
	tended to some duties and was about half an hour late
12     in returning to the office, this being my only loss of time
  	from work. My friends claimed that the arm had not
	been broken, as it would have been impossible for me to
15     continue my work without having it set, and carrying it
  	in a sling until the bone knit together. Their insistence
	almost persuaded me that I might have been mistaken,
18     until one of my friends invited me to... visit a physician's
  	office where they were experimenting with an X-ray ma-
	chine. The physician was asked to examine my left
21     arm to see if it differed from the ordinary. On look-
  	ing through it, he said, "Yes, it has been broken, but
	whoever set it made a perfect job of it, and you will
24     never have any further trouble from that break." My
  	friend then asked the doctor to show how he could
	tell where the break had been. The doctor pointed
27    out the place as being slightly thicker at that part,
  	like a piece of steel that had been welded. This
	was the first of several cases of mental surgery that
30    have come under my notice, and it made a deep
  	impression on me. 
 1	    For the benefit of others who may have something
  	similar to meet, I will say that I have overcome almost
 3	constant attacks of sick headaches, extending back
  	to my earliest recollection. — L. C. S., Salt Lake City,
  	Utah. 
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