TEN MONTHS’ SUFFERING IN A HOSPITAL.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2046, 15 May 1890, Page 3

TEN MONTHS’ SUFFERING IN A HOSPITAL.

There is an old saying that physicians are a cIBT3 of men who pour drugs, 0 £ whioh they t iow hUle, into badies of whioh they know lesr. This h both true and untrue at the same time. There pre good and poor lawye - 3 and good and poor doctors. The trouble w.th the3e medioal gentlemen e? a profession is that they are clannbh, and apt to be conceited. Tney don't like to be beaten at their own 1.-ade by outsiders who have never studied medicine. They the.-efore pay, by their frequent failures, the penalty of refming instruction unless the teaoher'bears their own " Hall Mark." An eminent physician—Dj. Brown-Sequard of Parts—states the fact accurately when he says : " The medioal profession are so boimd up in their self-confidence and conoeit that they allow the diamond truths of soience to be pioked up by persons entirely outside their r8 , n ."! , "„ We 8 iyB » most interesting incident, whioh illustrates this important truth The steamship " Concorida," of the DonaldP^li^VJ 1 " 0 from &la »g°* for Baltimore in 1887, hav.ng on board as a fireman a man named Eiohara Wade, of Glasgow. He had bDen a fireman for fourteen years on varioua ships sailing to Amerioa, 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 first time to feel weak and ill. Hia appetite failed, and he suffered from drowsiness, heartburn a bad taste in the mouth, and oostivenesa and srregularity of the bowels. Sometimes when «t work he had attaoka of giddiness, but iuppoc3d it to be caused by the heat of the fire-room. Quite often ho was sick and felt like vomiting, and had some pain in the head. Later during the pasaage he grew worse, and when the ship reached Halifax he was placed m the Viotorn General Hospital, and the ship sailed away without him. The house surgeon gave him some powders ti 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 dootors stopped both the powders and mixture. A month passed the poor fireman getting worse and worse. Then oame another dotlor, who was to be visiting physician for the next five months. He gave other medicines, hut not much relief' Nearly all that time Wade Buffered great torture 5 he digested nothing, throwing 'up all he ate. There was terrible pain in the bowels, burning heat in the throat, heartburn and raoking heedache. The patient was now taking a mixture every four hours, powdera one alter each meal todigestthe food operating pills one every night, and temperatir-'e pills two each night to stop the oold jwea'" If drugs could oure him at all, Biohard h*i an idea that he took enough to do it. But on the other hand pleurisy set in and the dootors took ninety ounces of matter f om hia right side; and then told him he was sure (o [ die. Five months more rolled by, and there was another change of visiting physioians The new one gave Wade a mixture whioh he said made bim tremble like a leaf on a tree. At this stage Wade's §ootch blood asserted itself. He refused to stand any more do in? and i jld the dootors if he must die he could die as well without them as with them,, By this time a cup of milk would turn aour on his stomaoh, and lie there for days. Our friend from Glasgow was like a wreok on a shoal, fast going vo pieoes, We will let him tell the rtst of his expoiienca in the words in wlch he commui. ica—d it to the press, He says; " When J was in th.'g stato a lady whom I had never seen oame io the hospital and talked with me. She provad to bo an angel of meroy, for without her I should not r.owb Qa ij vo> She told me of a medicine oallod * Mother Seigel'a Curative Syrup,' and brought me a bottle next day. J stated with , it, without consulting the' doctors, and '*n only a few days' hmo I was out of bed oalling for ham and eggs for breakfaafc.' From that * tyme, keeping on with Mother Seigel'a great

remedy, I got well fast, and was soon able te leave the hospital and come home to Glasgow. I now feel ai if I was in another world, and have no illness of any kind," The above facta are oalmly and impartially ■tated, and the reader may draw hii own conclusion. We deem il best to use no names, alfchongh Mr Wade gave them in his original deposition. His addreis is No. 244, Stobcrois Street, Glasgow, where letters will reach him. Editor.