TEN MONTHS’ SUFFERING IN A HOSPITAL.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2073, 17 July 1890, Page 3

TEN MONTHS’ SUFFERING IN A HOSPITAL.

There is an old saying that physicians are a class of men who pout drugs, of which they know little, into bodies of which they know lees. This is both true and untrue at the same time. There ate good and poor lawyers, and good and poor doctors. The trouble with theae medical gentlemen as a profession it, that they are clannish, and apt to be conceited. They don’t like to be beaten at their own trade by outaiders who have never studied medicine. They therefore pay, by the ir frequent failures, the penalty of refusing instruction unless the teacher bears their own “ Hall Mark.”

An eminent physician—Dr. Brown-Sequard of Paris—state* the fact accurately when he says : “ The medical profession are so bound up in their self •confidence and conceit that they allow the diamond truths of science to be picked np by persons entirely outside their ranks.” We give a most interesting incident, which illustrates this important trnth. The steamship ” Ooncorida,” of the Donald* son Line, sailed from Glasgow for Baltimore in 1887, having on board as a fireman a man named Biohard Wade, of Glasgow. He had been a fireman for foorteen years on various ships sailing to America, China, and India. He had borne the bard 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, Hja appetite failed, and he suffered from drowsiness, heartburn a bad taste in the month, and oostiveness and irregularity of the bowels. Sometimes when at work be had attacks of giddiness, but ' supposed it to be caused 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 hp was placed in the Victoria General Hospital, and the ship sailed 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 wa| go much worse that the doctorg stppnpd fopth the powders and the poor flrefppn getting worgg and WQWe,

Then pamp another dpptqr, *KI la visiting physician fgj the BCit.B*" - - He gave other msdieias--- months. TSTpft*!* all thafc *’ .out not much relief. Wade suffered great '■*re ; he digested nothing, throwing up all he ate. There was terrible pain io the bowels, burning heat in the throat, heartburn, and waking headache. The patient was no * taking a mixture every four hours, powders one after each meal to digest the food, operating pills one every night, and temperature pills two each night to stop the cold sweats. If dings could ourehim at all, Biohard had au idea that he took enough to do it. But ou the other hand pleurisy set in and the doctors took ninety ounces of matter from his right side; and then told him be was sure to die. Five months mure rolled by, and there was another change of visiting physicians The spw one gave Wade a mixture which be said made him tremble like a leaf ou a tree. At this stage Wade’s Scotch blood asserted itself. He refused to etand any more dosing, and told the doctors if ho must die he could die as well without them as with them, By i this time a cup of milk would torn sour on his stomach, and Me there for days. Onr 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 press. He says: M When I was in this state a lady whom I had never seen came to the hospital and talked with me. She proved to be an angel of mercy, for without her I should not now he 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 calling for bam and 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 bospital and cpme home to Glasgow,

I now feel as if I was in another world, and hare no illness of anj kind.”

The above facts are calmly and impartially stated, and the reader may draw his own conclusion. Wo deem it best to use no names, although Mr Wade gave them in hi* original deposition. Hi* address is Ho, 244, Stoboroi* Street. Glasgow, where letter* will reach him. Editor.