TEN MONTHS SUFFERING IN A HOSPITAL.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3400, 3 January 1890, Page 3

TEN MONTHS SUFFERING IN A HOSPITAL.

f/, There w an old paying thnt physit .. clans are a class of men whir pour p ' ; , drngu, of which (Jtoy know little, into bodies of .which thuy know lew. This is both trufi and un- \ w 0 #t the saint' time. Thero aro I . S°°i &nd poor lawyers. and K»od and poor doctors. The trouble with these medical gentlemen as a profusion Is , th.t they are clannish, and apt to bo Conceited. They don't like to be beaten *t their own trade by imtaidors who hive never studied medicine. They .v, therefore pay, by their frequent ijpt failures, the penalty of refusing iustrues '' n » unless tiieJfacher bears (lirir own ' "Hall Mark.' ; An eminent physicliu-Dr Brown--1 Beijund, of Paris-states the fact " accurately when ho says: "The rnedi- ' p'ofossion are so buund up in their self-oontidunce and conceit that they allow tho diamond truths of 6cienco I ' lo picked up by persons entiroly outside thoir ranks," We tiivo B '""'it interesting incident, which £ ' "lUifrates this important truth. i; : . -** l ® Bteamship 11 Concordia" of tho 1 i "it, .°' 1 Ba t "»iW from Glnago* > for iialtlinoio l-.i' 1837, liaviny on buard 4" a n h , r, "n'" l "Hi" named Richard Wade f fof Hu had been a fireman k| [ot fourteen years on vaiii.us Bliip3 siil- " W fr°m Amoiioi.Chm:! and India !' M ■ He had borne the hard and cihnujting 1 f labour, and had been healthy and * I » tr «"K. On tho trip wo now naino bo r-~ ; fur the first lime to loci weak and / 'll. ilis appetite tailed and lie suttured 3 from drowsiness, heartburn, a bad tusto • • j-' jo Me mouth and costivoneas and Lp J irrei/ularity of tho bowels. Soinelinus a! H when at work lie had attacks of giddiness it ■F but auppoicd it to bo caused by the ni F boat'of thu tire-room, Quite often ho W /»|sick_»nd felt like vomiting, and bad i ■ v, w'nJ9 pain in the head. Later during the passage ho grow tvorae, and when the ship-teached Ualifax he was place i !U tho Victoria Ooneral Hospital, and the T Jliip sailed away without hiiu, Tho house surgeon give him somo powders | to stop tho vomitiiisf, and the nest day tlw visiting physician rave him a mix-tur-i to take every four hours. Within vtwo days Wade was so much worse that (< docUtrfl stopped both tho powdora and the miituro. A mouth passed, tho poor li'eman getting worse and worse. Then camo another doctor, who was to be visiting physician fov the next five months. Ha gave other mediciups, J but not much riiliif. Nearly all that Hma Wade suffered gnat torture; lie Digested nothing, throwing tip all he ate. There was terriblo pain in the bowels, :b 'ruing heat in thu throat, heartburn. Jracking.headiehe, Tho patient was taking a mixture every four hours, ileri one after each meal to digest t \, 'the food, operating pills ono every night, ®nd temperature pills two each night to stop the cold sweats, If drugs could cure liim at all, Richard had an idea 1 that he took enough to do it, 13ut oil Hie other hand pleurisy set in an ) the doctors took nuui'j hhicm of mnthr in. "* MMtmhia tinhl >i/b anil tliun >,.1.1 I,ln.

* BJpil" nj/it sue, smltliuii Md him ■;} "was auie io die. five month muru , tollud by, and thera was anuther | - ch«ngo uf physicians. The f. now one gave Wnde a in xtnru which he «IJmad.him.lrcmblt lite a lei/on a tr», v. A' this # crisis Wado's Scotch bland sl:'. any more dusing, and told thu doctors that if hu must die he could dio as well 'v : without thoin as with them. By this 5 v time a cup at milk ivoulil tnrnamiron t' stomach, and lie there for da) j. Our friend (rem Glasgow to.like n wreck , "n a shoal, font going to pieres, Wo will Js' him toll the rest of his experience in tho words in which he communicated it to the prt'B s.