Spalding and Magan's Unpublished Manuscript Testimonies - Ellen G. White

the office for A quick trip to st. Helena, mother
came outdoors, and we spent ten minutes in
walking about in the bright sunshine, and talking
about the progress of the message in all the world.
Sabbath morning, mother appeared to be as
well as usual. About noon as she was entering her
study from the hallway, she tripped and fell. Her
nurse, may walling, who was in the hall about
twenty feet away, hastened to her assistance, and
endeavored to help her onto her feet. When mother
cried out with pain, may lifted her into a rocking
chair, pulled the chair through the hall to Mother’s
bedroom, and got her to bed. Then may telephoned
Dr. Klingerman at the sanitarium, and at once
applied fomentations to the hip, where the pain
seemed to be the greatest.
When the doctor came, he said that is was
either a bad sprain or a fracture, and advised an X-
ray examination at the sanitarium. This
examination showed an “Intracapsular fracture of
the left femur at the junction of the head and neck.”
Mother bore very patiently all the painful
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