TEN MONTHS SUFFERING IN A HOSPITAL.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3438, 18 February 1890, Page 3

TEN MONTHS SUFFERING IN A HOSPITAL.

Thoi'fl is an old Biyin«tliat physicians aro a class of men who-pour drugs, of whiclilhoy know litllo, into bodies of which they know less. This is both truo and uurue at tho same time, There aro Jfe good and poor lawyers, and stood and ' poor doctors. Tho trouble with these medical gentlemen iis a profession ia that they aro clannish, and apt to be conceited. Thoy don't iiko to be beaten at their own trade by outsiders who havo never studied medicino. They thoroforo pay, by their frequent failures, tho penalty of refusing instruction unless the teacher bears their own "Hall Mark," An eminent physician—Dr BrownBoquard, of Paris-states the fact accurately when ho says: "The medical profeßßion are so hound up in their self-contidouco and conceit that they allqw tho diamond truths of scienco bo picked up by persons entirely outsido their ranks." We idve a most interesting incident, which Illustrates this important truth. The steamship " Concordia" of tho Donaldson Line, sailed from Glasgow for Baltimore in 1887, having onboard aea fireman a man named Richard Wad o of Glasgow. He had been a fireman for fourteen years on various ships sail-

iu> from America, China and India

' Ho had borno the hard and exhausting jf* labour, aud had been healthy and strong. On tho trip we now name ho |p began for tho first time to feel weak and r ill, Bis appetite'failed and ltd 6ullered from drowsiness, heartburn, a bad tasto

in the mouth, and costiveness mid irreralarity of tbo bowels. Sometimes when at work he had attacks of giddiness but supposed it to bo caused by the heat of tlio tiro-room, Quito often ho was sick and felt like vomiting and had Bomo pain in the head. Later during tho passage ho grow worse, and when the ship reached Halifax he was placed in tho Victoria General Hospital, and the ship sailed away without him. The house surgeon gave him somo powders to stop the vomiting, and tho next day the visiting physician pavo him a mixta to take every four hours, Within two days Wade was so much worao that tho doctors [stopped both the powdora and tho mixtucn. A month passed, tho poorfirouian getting worso and worso. Then came another doctor, who was to bo visiting physician for tho next fivo months. Ho gave other medicines but not much relief. Nearly all Ilia, timo Wade suffered great torture j he digested nothing, throwing up all heoto. There was tcrriblo pain in |tho bowels, burning heat in the throat, heartburn,

, and racking headacbo, Tho patient wan w. now taking a mixture every four hours, ~\ powders one after each meal to digest the food, operating pills ono every night, and temperature pills two each night to stop tho cold sweats. If drugs could jf t euro bim at all, Richard had an idea that ho took enough to do it. But on tho other hand pleurisy set in and (lie doctors look ninety ounces 0/ matter from his right side, and then, told him ho waß Eure to die. Five month moro rolled by, and thero was another change of, visiting physicians. The new ono gave Wade a mixture which he wH modi him tremble like a leaf ona tret,

At this crisis Wade's Scotch blood asserted, itselt. He refused to stand any more dosing, and told the doctors that if ho must die ho could die as well without them as with them, By this llmo a cup of milk would turn sour on his stomach, and lie thero for days. Our friend from Glasgow was like a wreck on a shoal, fast going to pieces. Wo will let him tell the rest of his experience in tho words in which he communicated it to tho press. He says; " When I was in this stato

i lady whom I had never seen cainoto the hospital and talked with me. She f proved to bo an angel of mercy, for without her I should not now bo alive She told me of a medicine called .Mother Seigel's Curative Syrup,' and "rotight me a bottlo next day, I started with it, without consulting tho doctor, and in only a few days' time I was ovt of bed calling forhmn amlcggs forbrcakfast. From that timo, keeping on with Mother Seigel's groat remedy, I got woll fast, aud was' soon able to leave the

hospital and como liouiu to Glasgow. I m now feel as if a was in another world, *~ and havenoillnessof any kind." Tho above facta sro calmly and impartially stated, and tho reader may draw his own conclusion. Wo deem it best to iiso nO names, although Mr Wado gave thorn in his original deposition. His address is No. 244, Stobcross Street, Glasgow, where lcttois "-will reach him. ' : Editok, .