TEN MONTHS SUFFERING IN A HOSPITAL.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3437, 17 February 1890, Page 3

TEN MONTHS SUFFERING IN A HOSPITAL.

There Is an.old tayingthat physicians are a class of turn who pour drugs, of whichlley knuw htilo. into bodies of uhioh they know lets, This is bjih true and unrue at th<i saui" time. There are good and poor kwyi-rs, and food and poor doctors. The Ir'ouble with thene nudifidl gentlemen as a. profetalon }• ih t they are clam.Uh, and apt i> ho cunceied. Ihey don't like to'bebeaton at their own traoV.oy outsiders who h«8. never studied midicine. 1 hiy therefore pay, by' .tluir ,frequant failures, the penalty of refuting hutruotion unicsg the teacher braritLeir own' "Bill Mark."'■. •'■

An eminent physiilin-Dr BrownSequiid, of Paris-states the fact Miutitoly when he esys: " The medical profession are en liuund up in their self-ceiitideiice and conceit that the; allow the diamond' truths of science be picked" up ty : persona hitirely outsido their ianki,"' We ejve a most interesting juciuent, wbuh thiiiniporlant truth, I The «i«n.ihi|> "Coia'idia" of the fioni Olapgo* for Baltimore .'in 1887, having mi hoard •m firimun am.in named Richard Wade of Glnß.ow.' lie had been a lirt-man t fourteen years on various Bblpa sailfrom Ainerics, Chun and ludli He had.borne the hnid and exhausting labour, and bad been hi a thy and atrooi;. On the trip wo now name he btgnri for the first tine to feel weik and 111. Uls appetite failed and he sullered from drowsiness, heartburn, a bad taste In tlie month and coutivenoKß and irie\raJarity of "the bowels. Someliims when at work he had attacks of giddiness but supposd it to be caused by the beat of the h'ro-roum, Quite often he wtiasick and felt like vomiting, and, bad some pain In the head, Later during i the passage ho grew worse, and when : the thiu loaqhed tjalifax he was plaeei .in tho Victoria Ooneral Hosuitil, aud the ship sailed away without him. Tho house surgeon gavohim some powd ra toitopthevomitiu!.', and the next day the visiting physician yavo him a mixture to take every four hours, \\ itbin ; two day's Wade was so much worse that ! the dcMjUira BUipptd both the powders : and the mixture.' A mouth passed, the ; getting wotso aud woise. Tsi came anoiher doctor, who waß i to be. visiting phytjeian for the next I five months. Ho yave other medicinPß ' but not ranch relief, Nearly all tha ; time Wadn suffered great torture; he :' digested nothing, throwing up a 1 he ate. j There was t'erriblo pair in i'tho' : bowels, ; b-jruihgheatintlw throat, heartburn J ; and raoking hsadache. The patient was ■ now.takini; a mixture every four hours; pondira one after each meal to digest Jte f'.oJ, operatjni! pills one every mght, .ijm temperature rills two each night to stop the cold Bweats, If drugs could cute hira at all, Richard had an idea that he took enough.to do it.: Rut oh the other baud, pleurisy set. in and. Ik ioclws took, ninety mm«j of. matter fromhh right tide, and then told hint he was sure to die. I'ive month more rolled by, apjlNhero was i another change of visiting physicians. The new one gave Wo a a xture wMch he said madi him -tremo's fiie a '/«'.-/ bim hit, '■ . ''. -" ; - : '.".'. •-

M thfs crisis Wadu's Scotch blood asserted itselt, He refused, to'stand aoymprp dosing, and told the doctors that if he must die he could die as well vrithoiit ihem.aa.'with■them. By this <iJKftoiip liniilk would turn sour on bisvomach, and Hothere for dajs. ,liur friend fa'iu Glasgow waslilte a vwk «iiasljoal,fwtgoingfr'| ieres, M'ewi'i let him te'l tlio test cf his expwoiio? in the voids in which lie conmronbted ■BtiilbeptiM... ;. . He eaybyJ'.Whcn.l was in this state ■> i lady whom Mind never .teo'ti wnwtn' tbi! hi>S[>ital and talked with me. Bho proved to bo an angel of-meicy, for without her I should nut now bo r.li.u bho told.me ofa. medfciin callod Mother Bell's ■ Curative* Syrup,' and IWfOt BW a bottle B©jt dav, tfoM o',: .:; i :{;}-,y:'\4

with it, without 'conduit uy.tiij idnctcrs, And m wi!i/ a /eto dayt' lime f w« out of bd tailing for h int and ejjs for bmikfutt Fiom that time, keeping on' willi Mother floigri'i greit remedy, I gut well fast, and was Boon able, to leave Jtlie hospital and como home to Gla*gOiv,. ; I now feel ae if a was in another world; »nd have noillnbanf any kind."; ; ; , Tho,above ficts are calmly and impartially stated, and the read* mny draw his own conclusion. • \Va. d«!BDi it bust to use no names,.. tiHhoug'v.-Mi; Wade gave them in hin'miginaldepntj:, tion. .flis-address ifi No.-24t,.Stoh-erou .Street,; .Glasgow, , wherp „l>|iteu. will reach him.' , ''■,' ... , ~.,'. •