TEN MONTHS SUFFERING IN A HOSPITAL.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3436, 15 February 1890, Page 3

TEN MONTHS SUFFERING IN A HOSPITAL.

There it an old nyingthat physielani are a class of men who pour drugs, of which! hey' know littlo, Into bodies of which they know less. This is both true and unruo at tho same time, There are good and poor lawyers, and good and poor doctors. The trouble with these

medical gentlemen as a profession is <JJL<t they are clannish, and apt to be iJwncelted. They don't like to bo beaten at their own trade by outsiders who have never studied medicine. They tjpefore pay, by their frequent fsjrores, tbe.penalty of refusing instruction, umoss the teacher bears their own "Hall Mark." Ah eminent physician—Dr BrownSeqund, of Paris-states tho fact accurately when he says: "The medical profession are to hound up in their Belf-conlidenco and conceit that they allow the diamond truths of science be picked up ly persons entirely outsido their ranks." We give

a most iuttire3tiug incident, which llluuiivitea this important truth. The steamihip " Coi.e -rdia" of tho Donaldson Line, Bailed fiom Glasgow for Baltimora in 18S7, having on board asa fireman anunnainedltichard Wade of He bad been a fireman for fourteen years'un vauuus ships sailin; from America, China and India He had borno the hmd and exhausting labour, and had been htalthy and strong.' On the trip we now naiiio he began for tho first time to feel weak and ill. His appetite failed and he suttered from drowsiness heartburn, a bad taste in the mouth and costiveness and irregularity of the bowels. Sometimes when at work lie had attacks of giddiness but supposed it to bo caused by the Iwatof the fire-rnum, Quite often he wlack and felt like vomiting and had some pain in tho head. Later during passage ho grew worse, and when ship reached Halifax ho was placed m tfio Victoria General Hospital, atid the ship sailed away without him. The house surgeon gavo him some powdi-rs to stop tho vomitiii!!, and the next day the visiting physician pave hira a mixture to take every four hours, Within two days Wado was bo much worso that tho doctors stopped both the powders and the mixture. A mouth passed, tho poorfi'eman getting worso and worse. Then came another doctor, who was to bo visiting physician for tho noxt fivo months. Ho gavo other raediciups but not much relief. Nearly all tha time Wade suffered great torture; he digested nothing, throwing up all ho ate. There wa« terrible pain in|the bowels, burning heat in .the throat, heartburn, and racking headache. The patient was now taking a mixture overy 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 drugs could cure him at all, liichard had an idea that he took enough to do it. But oh foj>J&M hand pleurisy set in and the ■Aw iooh ninety < unces of mutttr fromhii right jfrft, andthon told him ho was sure to die. Five month more rolled by, and thero was anothor change of railing physicians, The new one gave Wade a nvxture which he s»id madi him irtmblt like a leaf o m

At this crisis Wadu's Sootch blood asserted itself. He refused to stand egg more dosing, and told the doctors Iffit'if ho must die he could die as well without them as with them. By this lime a cup of milk would turn sour on his stomach, and lie there for dajs, Out friend from Glasgow was like a wwk on a shoal, fast going t-> f ieces, We wi'l let hjm tell tho rest, cf his experience In the words in which he communicated ittolbjijiress,

Heeayt; "Whonl was In this slato a lady whom I had nover Been camu to the hospital and talked with me. She proved to be an angel of mercy, for without her I should nut now bo alive. She told me of a medicine called 'Mother Soigol's Curative Syrup,' and brought moabottlenextday. 1 started with it, without consultio? tho doctors, and itionly a few days' lm I wis out of Mwiiujforham mdtggt forkmtfusl FronT that time, keeping on with Mother Seigel's great remedy, I got well fast, and was soon ablo to leave the hospital and come homo to Glasgow,. I now feel as if a was in anothor world, and have no illnesa of any kind." The above' facts aro calmly and impartially stated, and the reader may draw his own conclusion. We deem it best to use no namea, although Mr Wade gavo them iu bis original deposition. His address is No, 244, Stobcross Street, Glasgow, where letters villrewh Mm. . Vmm,