TEN MONTHS SUFFERING IN A HOSPITAL.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3417, 24 January 1890, Page 3

TEN MONTHS SUFFERING IN A HOSPITAL.

A TBSfo is an old saying that physiaro a class of men who .pour drugs, of which thay know littlo, into bodies of which they know less, 'This is both truo and unrue at tho same timo, ■ There, aro good and poor lawyers, and eood and poor doctors. Tho trouble with these medical gentlemen ,ib a profession is th;it they are clannish, and apt to bo conceited, Thoy don't like to bo.boaton at. their own trade by ontsidora who have never studied medicino. They therefore pay, by their frequent failures, tho penalty of refusing instruction unioss tho teacher bears their own "Hall Mark." An eminont l physician—Dr BrownSequard, of Paris-states tho fact accurately when he says: "The medical profession are so hound up in their self-contidonco and conceit that they allow tho diamond truths of science bo picked up bv persons entHpJy, outside thoir ranks." We [jive n."*inoßt interesting incident, which Illustrates this important truth. The steamihip " Concordia" of tho Donaldson Lino, sailed fioro Glasgow for Baltimore in 1887, having on board asatiremin a man named Richard Wado orjflasijow. Ho had been a fireman for fourteen years on vaiums ships anilhi fii'm America, China and India He had homo tho hard and exhausting labour, and had been healthy and stro'% On tho trip wo now name ho began for tho first time to feel woak and ill. His appetite foiled and ho sutlorcd from drowsiness, heartburn, a bad taste in tho mouth and costiveness and.irregularity of tho bowels. Sometimes when at work ho had attacks of giddiness but supposed it to bo caused b|| the hoit of tho fire-room. Quito ow/ii ho was sick and felt liko vomitinqJE had tm pain in tho hoad. Laiwuurinij tiiu passage.ho grew worse, fani/when the ship roached Halifax ho/wss placei in the Victoria Gonoral iWitaUnd the ship sailed away without Hra. The house surgeon gavo himfsom/ powders to stop tho vomiting, amd th/ncxt day tho visiting physician; ?avo Mm a mixture to tako evory Mir hou/s, Within two days Wado wasiso muoli worse that tho doctors stopped! both (ho powders and the mixture, f A month passed, tho pooriiroman getting woraoand worse.

MrAndroy Carnegie, who has on semfviccasvons given large sums of money in aid 1 ' of tho establishment of public libraries in different parts of the country; has given towards the formation o)f a free library at Peterhead tho last £IOOO which lie intends to devote to this purpose.