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Temuka Leader, Issue 2048, 20 May 1890, Page 1

TEN MONTHS' SUFFERING IN A HOSPITAL. There is an old sayiag that phyßioiana are a class of men who pour drugs, of which they knew little, into bodies of which they know less.; : Thia is both true and untrue at the samo time. There are good and poor lawyers, and good and poor doctors. The trouble with thoae medical gentlemen as a profession ia that thoy are clannish, and apt to be conceited. They don't like to be beaten at their own trade by outoiders who have never studied medicine. They therefore pay, by their frequent failures, the penalty of refusing instruction unless the teacher "bears their own "Hall Mark." An eminent physician—Dr. Brovm-Ssquar d of Paris—states the fact aoourately when he says : " The medical profession are so bound up in their aelf-oonfidenoe and conceit that fchey_ allow the diamond truths of science to be pioked up by porsons entirely outside their ranks." We give a most interesting incident, whioh illustrates this important truth. The steamship " Concorida," of the DonaldSon Line, sailed from Glasgow for Baltr'more in 1887, having on board as a fireman a man named Riohard 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 ship we now name he began for the first time to feel weak and ill. His appetite fuiled, end he suffered from drowsiness, heartburn a bad taste in the mouth, and oostiveness and irregularity of the bowels. Sometimes when at work he had attaoks of giddiness, but supposed it to be osused by the heat of the fire-room. Quite often he was sick and felt like vomiting, and had some pain in the head. Later during the passage he grew worse, and when the ship reached Halifax ho was placed in the Viotoria General Hospital, and the ship sailed away without him. The house surgeon gaye him some powders to etop the vomiting, and the next day the visiting physician gave him a mixture to take every four hours. Within two days Wade waa so much worse that the doctors stopped both the powders and mixture. A month passed the poor fireman getting worse and worse. Then came another dootor, who was to be visiting physician for the next five months. He gave other medicines, but not muoh 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 the throat, heartburn and raoking headaoho. The patient was now' taking a mixture every four hours, powders one after eaoh meal to digastthe food, operat* ing pills one every night, and temperature pills two esoh night to stop tho cold sweats. Iffdruga could cure him at ail, Eiohard had an idea that he took enough to do ifc. But on the other hand pleurisy set in and the dootors took ninety ounoos of matter f>om his right aide; and then told him he was sure to die. Five months more rolled by, and there wag another change of visiting physicians. The new one gave Wade a mixture whioh he said made him tremble like a leaf on a tree, S||At this stage Wade's Scotch blood asserted itself. He refused to stand any moro dosing and told the doctors if he must die he could' dio as well without them as with them. By this time a oup of milk would turn sour on his stomach, and lie there for days. Our friend from Glasgow waa like a wreck on & shoal, fast going to pieoea. We will let him . tell the rest of his experience in the words in which he communicated it to the press. He says : " When I was in this state a kdy whom I had never seen oame 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 mediciae called ' Mother Seigel's Onratiye Syrup," and brought me & bottle nest day ; I started with it, without consulting the doctors, and. •"•a only a few days' time I was out of bed oalling for ham aud eggs for breakfast, that time, 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 as if I was in another- world and have no illness of any kind." ' The above facts are oalmly isnd impartially stated, and the reader may draw hia own conolusion. We detm it beat to uae no name? although Mr Wade gave them in his original deposition. His address is No. ?44, Stobcrojs Street, Glasgow, where letters will reach him. ■ Bdiiob,