TEN MONTHS’ SUFFERING IN A HOSPITAL.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2007, 13 February 1890, Page 3

TEN MONTHS’ SUFFERING IN A HOSPITAL.

There L an old eayipg that phytioiaus are a class of rn.n! ??ho pour drugs, of which they k> o -r !i !: le, huo bodies of srhioh (hey tro* Ics- - . This i-» both true and un'ino st, the fs'iw t'rne. The* - ? are p.o id and 'poor lawye-B, and a --od a.d poor doctors. Toe trouble ■rAh li-e.-e msdicel gontlsmcn as s prof-rsDn in that they arc olaoni \h, and apt; to be c c itod. They don’t like to bo bca-en at, lb i,r o»r« trade by outside™ who ha- - e never •uudied tced'ciae. Tory 'horefora pay, bv their fnquenfc fiiluro?, the penalty of refilling ins*, motion unless tho tesoher beans their own “ Hall Mark.”

An eminent. V-'slc.ua—Dr. Brow .>Seq card of Paris—alatea the fact accurately when bo says ; “ Tho medical profession are bo bound up in fchoir sdf-oonfidenoa and conceit that they allow tho diamond truths of science to be picked up by perrons entirely outside theic ranks,” We give a most interesting incident, which illustrates this important truth. Tho steamship “ Ooncorida,” of the Donald • son Line, sailed from Glasgow for Baltim-rs in 1887, having on board as a fireman a man named Richard Wade, of Glasgow, He had been a fireman for fourteen years on various ships sailing to America, China, and India, He had borne the hard and exhausting labour, and had been healthy and strong. On the trip we now name he began for the fitab time to feel weak and ill. His appetite failed, and ho suffered from drowsiness, heartburn, a bad taste in tho mouth, and oostivoneßa and irregularity of the bowels. Sometimes when at work he had attacks of giddiness, but supposed it to bo caused by the heat of the Qte room. Quite often he was siok and fait like vomiting, and had oome pain in the bend. Later during the passage he grew worse, and when the ship reached Halifax he was placed in the Victoria General Hospital, and the ship Bailed away without him. The house surgeon gave him some powders to stop the vomiting, and the next day the visiting physician gave him a mixture to take every four hours. Within two days Wade was so much worse that the doctors stopped both the powders and mixture. A month passe d the poor fireman getting worse and worse. Then came another doctor, who was to be visiting physician for tho next five months. He gave other medicines, but nob much relief. Nearly all that time Wade suffered great torture ; he digested nothing, throwing up all he ate. There was terrible pain in the bowels, burning heat in tho throat, heartburn, and racking headache. The patient was now taking a mixture every four hours, powders one after each meal to digest the food, operating pills one every night, and temperature pill# two each night to stop the cold sweats. If drugs could cure him at all, Richard had an idea that he took enough to do it. But on the other band pleurisy *et in and the doctors took ninety ounces of matter from his right fide; and then told him he was sure to die. Five month# more rolled by, and there was another change of visiting physicians. The new one gave Wade a mixture which he oaid made him tremble like a leaf on a tree.

At this stage Wade’a Scotch blood asserted itself. Ha refused to stand any more dosing, &nd told the doctors if he must die he could die a# well without them as with them, By this time a cup of milk would turn sour on his stomach, and lie there for days. Our friend from Glasgow was like a wreck on a shoal, fast going to pieces. We will let him tell the rest of his experience in the words in which he communicated it to the nress.

Ho osyo : “ Whoa I was in this state a lady whom I had never seen came to the hospital and talked with me. She proved to bo an angel of mercy, for without her I should not now bo alive, She told me of a medicine called ‘ Mother Ssigel’s Curative Syrup,’ and brought me a bottle next day; I started with it, without consulting the doctors, and in only a few days’ time I was out of bed calling for ham and eggs for breakfast. iTrora that time, keeping on with Mother Beigel’s great remedy, I got well fast, and was soon able te leave the hospital and come home to Glasgow, I now feel as if I was in another world, and have no illness o£ any kind.”

Tho above facts are calmly and impartially stated, and the reader may draw his own conclusion. We deem it best to use no names, although Mr Wade gave them in hia original deposition. His address is No, 244, Stobcross Street, Glasgow, where letters will reach him. Editor,