TEN MONTES’ SUFFERING IN A HOSPITAL.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2036, 22 April 1890, Page 4

TEN MONTES’ SUFFERING IN A HOSPITAL.

There is an old saying, that physicians are a class of men who pour drugs, of whioh they know li! tie, into bodies of whioh they know lees. This is both true aud untrue at the same time. There are good and.poor lawyers, and eoqd and poor doctors. The trouble with these medical gentlemen as a profession is that they are clannish, and apt to be conceited. They don't like to be beaten at their own trade by outsiders who have never studiod medicine. They therefore pay, by their frequent failure?, tbe penalty of refusing instruction unless theteaoher bears their own " Hall Mark." An eminent physician—Dr. Bro,wn-Seqnard of Paris—states the fact accurately when he eaya : " The medical profession are bo bound ; up in their self-confidence and conceit that they allow the diamond trutho of science to be picked up by persons entirely out§ide their ranks." We give a most interesting incident,; whioh illustrated this important truth The steamship " Concoridts," of the Donaldson Line, failed from Glasgow for Baltimore; in 1887, having on board as a, fireman a m&n named Biohsrd Wade, of Glasgow. He had been a fireman for fourteen years on various ships eailiiig to Amerioa, Obina, and India.! He had borne the hard and exhausting labour,! and had been healthy and strong. On the trip we now name ho began for the first litre to feel weak and ill. His appetite friLd, and ha suffered from drowsiness, heartburn, a bad taste, in the mouth, and oostivenesa and j irregularity of the bowels. Sometimes when! &fc work he had afcfaoks of giddiness, but; Bupposed it to be ouised by tho heat of the! fire-room. Quite often he was siok and felt' like vomiting, and had some pain in the head.! Later during the passage he grew worse, and: when the ship reached Halifax he was placed. in the Viotori* General Hospital, and the. ship Bailed away without him. The house! . surgeon gave him soma powders to stop the! vomiting, and the next day the visiting,. j physician gave him a mixture to take every! four hour*. Within two days Wade was eo much worse that the doctors stopped both the powdera and mixture. A month passed the poor fireman gotting worse and worse. Then oiine another dootor, who was to be visiting physician for tho next five months. He gave other, medicine?, but not muoh relief. Nearly all that time Wade suffered great torture; he digested nothing, throwing up all he ate, There was terrible pain io the bowels, burning heat in the throat, heartburn, and racking headache. The patient was now' taking a mixture every four hours, powders one after each meal to digeßt the food, operating pills one every night, and temperature pills two eaoh night to stop tha cold sweats. If drugs could oure him at all, Biohard had an idea he took enough to do it. But on the other hard pleurisy set in and the dootore took ninety ounces of matter from his right side; and then told him he was sure to die. Five months more rolled by, and there was another change of visiting physicians. The new one gave Wade a mixture whioh he eaid made him tremble like a leaf on a tree. At this stage Wade's Sootch blood asserted itself. Ho refused to stand any more dosing and told the doctors if he.must die. he could' die as well without them as with them. By this time a oup of milk would turn oour on his stomach, and lie there for days. Oar friend from Glasgow was like a wreok on a shoal, fast going to pieces. We will let him tell tho rest of his experience in the words in which he communicated it to the press. He says : " When I was in this state a lady whom I had nevor seen came to the hospital and talked with me. She proved to be an angel of meroy, for without her I should not now be alive. She told me of a medicine called ' Mother Seigel'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 oalling for ham aud eggs for breakfast. From that time, keeping on with Mother Seigel'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 of any kind." The above facts are calmly and impartially stated, and the reader may draw his own conclusion. We deem il best to use no names, although Mr Wade gave them in his original deposition. His address is No. 244, Sfcobcross Street, Glasgow, where letters will reach him. Editor. Allender, reported as lost on the ranges near Nenthorn, has turned up all right. At a meeting of the creditors of D, F. Evans, an Auckland auctioneer, it was reported his estate would only pay .3|d in the £. 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