TEN MONTHS SUFFERING IN A HOSPITAL.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3464, 20 March 1890, Page 3

TEN MONTHS SUFFERING IN A HOSPITAL.

Thore is au old physicians aro a class of men whu pour drugs, of whichl hey know little, into bodies ■ of '• which they know lesß, This is both true mid tinrue at tho same time, 'There aro good nud poor lawyers,' 'and good and poor doctors. Tho trouble with these medical gentlemen- as a profession is that they are clannish, and apt to he conceited. They don't like to be beaten at their own trade by outsiders who hivo never studied medicine.' They therefore pay, by their frequent failures, the penalty of refusing inetruolion unless the teacher bears their owii "Hall Mark.'!!' An eminent physiclau-Dr BrownKeouard, of' Paris-states the fact accurately when ho says: " The medical profcsßion are so hound up In their self-confidence' and.-conceit' that*they allow the diamond'truths' of science be ticked . up by persons ; entheir rankß," We give aJj*?t interesting : incident, '■' which ljiwates this important truth. The steamship " Concordia" of tho Donaldson Line, sailed 1 from Glasgow for Baltimore in 1887, having on board asa fireman a Man named Richard Wade of Glasgow. Ho had been a fireman for fourteou years on various ships sailing from America, China and India/ Ho had borno'the mini and exhausting , labour, and -had' been healthy and stro'ig. On .the trip wo now name lie began for the first time to feel weak arid ill. His appetite failed and ho sutlered from drowsiness, heartburn, a bad taste in the mouth/' and costivencss and irregularity of tho bowels,' Sometimes when at work he had attacks of giddiness but supposed it to'be caused by the heat of tho tire-room. Quito often he wa» sick and felt like vomiting, and had some pain in the head, Later during the passage lie grew worse, and when the ship reached Halifax lie was placed in tho Victoria General Hospital, and the ship sailed away'jvithoufcshinv.Vfhe • house surgeon gave hfmisCmo-powders to stop the vomiting, and the nest day the vising physician s<a,vo him a mixture tiiMe everjrfoui-,fiuurs/ that in two was so much worse that tho doctors stopped both the powders and tho mixture. A month passed; tho poor fireman getting worso and worse, Then came another doctor,, who was to bo visiting physician for tho next five months. Hqgaveiother.mediciues but not much relicl.-'- Nearly 1 iill ttia tiißj Wado suffered great •.torture; he, uig«ed nothing', throwing Up all heato. TheYo was terrible pain,in ( lthe- bowels, burning heat in'the throaty heartburn, and racking headache. ~'J'ho patientVas now taking a mixture dvery four hodr's, powders one after each tneal to - digest the food, oporalingpi|la pnelevery night,andtemperatuiropills' twoc&t-hnightto stop the cold sweats. If drugs could cure him at all,, Richard had an idea that he touk ■ chmigli' to do 1 iti, But on tlie other in and t/i« dorftjtt toitl; 'nhiclif'ofiuMi iJf.'nuiUtr from hit right >«/#,' auci'thoii', told : 'liim lie was sure to die, Fire month inoro rolled by, and there v/as'another change of visiting 'physicians'. Tho new ono gave Wade a uiixturewhich he . said mulihim. Wc/iiWc \IM A \ui oil \m. At this crisis, Wudo's Scotch blood , assertedjlltselt/ Ho refused to Btand 1 any nior? dosing, and told/tho doctors that if he must die he could die as well > without them as with thorn, By this tune a cup of milk would l tum:sour l .on' his stomach, and He there for da) s. Our friend from Glasgow was like,a wreck on a shoal, fast going U> pieces, Wo will let him tell the restof' his'c'iperietice' in the words iu which lie communicated it to the press ~ ,\<\ :, • ~,;, „, He says, " Whoii I was In 'this stato" i lady whom I'Jiad never seen camtito the hospital aiid.talked.with'.nie. Jhe «lto be anarigol'of metcy.j for it her I.eliould aob uqw bo alive 10W DM Ol a *|ll»diclug wWj ;'■■ .-■" .K-lK h-r^lV

(Mother fioigol'a Curative C&M-rl with it, without ctmsiiftiue^UolTfl wtjflfr and in onhjufcw iayi'fijntlpit^uM From that time, keeping'■'on with Mother Seigel's great remedy, J got well fast,mid was soon able to leave tho liospital and coiiio homo to Glasgow. •. 1 now feel as if a ivns'in another world| and have no illness of sny'ltind." 'kTW abovo facta aro caltnly,anc| im r partially stated/ and the-reader/may. draw his own conclusion, Wodeem.it best-to mono namos, 'although Mr Wado f»avo" thorn in his original deposition. His address 1b No. 24J,.Stobcross Street, Glasgow, where; Jetton will reach him <" !■; Kwiou.