God Arises
The Life We Seek
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husband and it had been decided that she
could not be taken back into their home.
Doubtless, arrangements could be made for
her to go into an old people’s home.
A few hours later, when I was called to the
old lady’s side as the intern on her case, she
was showing general physical deterioration.
Inside of twenty-four hours she died—not of
her broken hip but of a broken heart, although
in desperation we had utilized all emergency
medical measures that might conceivably
restore her to health.
Her broken hipbone had healed without a
snag, but her broken heart had not. Despite all
the favorable influences in vitamins, minerals
and immobilization of the fracture that we
had brought to bear upon her condition, she
did not recover. To be sure, the bone ends had
united and she had a strong hip, but she had
not recovered. Why? The most important
element needed in her recovery was not the
vitamin, not the minerals, nor the splinting of
