TEN MONTHS SUPFERING IN A HOSPITAL.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2060, 17 June 1890, Page 4

TEN MONTHS SUPFERING IN A HOSPITAL.

There ia an old paying;that.physiciaps ate a claia of men who pour drugs','of whioh they I know little, into bodies of whioh 1 they know lees. This is both true and untr'ue : at jthe same time.' There are good and poor lawyprs, and good apd poor dootors. The, trouble with these iriedioal gentlemen,as a prpfenion it* that they are * arid apt to' be conceited. They don't their own; trade by outsiders who! have never studied medicine. They therefore, pay, iby their frequent failures, the penalty of recusing instruction unless the teacher bears tbeir own V Hall Mark." An eminent physician—Dr. Browh-Sequard of Paris—states the, fact accurately , when \ he sayß : "The medioal-profession are bo bound up in their self .confidence and' conoeit fch&t they allow the'diamond 1 truths, of science to bo picked tup by persons entirely outside their ranks." We ; giv,fl a most interesting incident, whioh illustrates thisJmpQrtant truth.. The Bteam«hip : "'Oonc6ridai" of the Donaldson Erie; eailed-froni 1 Glasgow for "Baltimore in 1887, having on board aa v a! fireman a roan named, Riqhard Wade,, of Glasgow. -'He |iad been a fireman for fourteen years on 1 ships sailing to Amerjoa,, Ghina, .and .India. | EJe had borne the hard and exhausting labour, and had beerf healthy arid strong. ' On' the ship we now name he began for; the first tjme to feel weak and, ill. His ; appetite failed ond lie suffered from drowsiness,, heartburn, a bad taste in the mouth, arid bpstivehess and irregularity of the bowels. Sometirife's 'when

at work he had attacks; of giddiness, but supposed it to ,be o»ußed by the heat of the fire-room. Quite often he was sick and ielt like vomiting, arid had'apmepain in the hefcd. L»ter during the passage he grew worse, and when the ship reached Halifax he was placed in the Victoria General Hospital,, and the ship, sailed away without: him. The house surgeon gave him.some powders to atop 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 an'd'woMe. Then came another dootor,.whoiwas toibe visiting physioian for the.,next,[fiveyjnonlhs. He gave other medicines, but not'muph relief. Nearly all that time Wade suffered'gr?afc torture ; he' digested 'nothing,' 'throwing up all he ate. There was terrible' pain ib'the bowels, burpip^heat.iOiJihe:thrqat;,:heartbufn, and racking headache. The patient was npw taking a mixture every four', hour's, powders one after each meal to digest the focd,dperat-. ing pills one every night, and' temperature pills two eaoh nightto stiqp tha.oold !s'wea|t*. If drugs could pure him at all,; Eiohard , had an idea that he took enough' to 'do it. 'But on the' other' hand pleirriay set .in 'arid' the dootors took ninety ourices-of matter'from his right side; and then told him her was sure to die. . Five months more.rolled; by, was another change of visitiEg I phygioiaps : The new one gave Wade a'mixture "which h.e sard made him tremble like "a'lekf ona'tree, _ rAb this stage Wade's;S3otch blood aaserted itself. He refused to stand any mpreidqiin'g, and told the.docto.rs if he, must die he could die ai well without t'bern^ as with! thecal "By this time a oup of milk 1 would turn' sour on his stomach,; and) lielhere for days. Okr friend from .Glasgow was like a on fa .shoal, fast, going, to .pieces. -/We will.let him tall the rest of his "experience in 'the, in which he communicated it tothe press, i He says : " When'l was in this'state a lscjy whom I had never seen dame ,to the and talked with.me. She. proved ito>,be an angel of, merp'y, for', without her I should npt now'be alive/ She'" told •meof a mediciee called '* Mother Ssigel?* Curative- Syrup,' arjd brought me a bottle next day. I started it, .without qoneulting thedoctors,,-and in only,a few days''lino I waioutof bed oalling • for ham and eggs' for brW'fcfiis*! From 'tils't. time,-: keeping on with ! Mother'Seigel'a grejt remedy, I got well fast, and was soon able te leave the hospital and come home to QJasgow.' Inow feel as, if I, was in anpther l.world, and' i have'no illness of any: kind."

The above facts are calmly.and impartially etated, and the readpr-inay own oon« olusion. t We derm it best to use -no namei, although Mr Wadegave them in h'u" original deposition. His addreiH isNol ?4'4, Stobcroie Street, Glasgow,'where lettera-will reaolv him. •Editor.