TEN MONTHS SUFFERING IN A HOSPITAL.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3477, 5 April 1890, Page 3

TEN MONTHS SUFFERING IN A HOSPITAL.

There is an old sayingthat physicians are a class of men who pour drugs, of whichlhoy know littlo, into bodies of which thoy know less, This is both true and unruo at the same time, Time are good and poor lawyers, and good and poor doctors, The trouble with these medical gentlemen as profession is that they are clannish, and apt to bo conceited. They don't like to be beaten at their owii trade by ontsidora who have never studiod medicine They therefore pay, by their frequent failures, tho penalty of refusing instruction uniess the teacher bears their own "Hall Mark." An ominent physician—Dr BrownSequard, of Paris-states the fact acouratoly when he says: "Tho medical profession are so hound up in their self-contidenco and conceit that they

allow the diamond truths of science *bo picked up by porsons entirely outside thoir'ranks." We (give a most interesting incident, which illustrates this important truth. The steamship " Concordia" ot tho "Tttnaldson Line, sailed from' Glasgow fs Baltimore in 1887, having oil board asa fireman a man named Eichard Wade of Glasgow. Ho had beon a fireman for fourteen years on various ships sailing from America, China and India. He had borne the hard and exhausting

labour, and had been healthy and «ong. On tho trip wo now name he Jan fur the first time to feel weak and His appetite failed and ho sutlered trom drowsiuesj, heartburn, a bad tasto in the mouth and costlveness and irresrularity of the bowels. Sometimes when at work be had attacks of giddiness but supposed it to bo caused by the heat of the tire-room, Quito often ho was sick and felt like vomiting,- and had some pain in tho head. Later during the passage ho grew worse, and whon the ship reached Halifax ho was placed in tho Victoria General Hospital, and the ship sailed away without him. The house surgeon gave him some powders to stop the vomiting, and theuoxt day the visiting physician royo liima mixturo to tako every four hours, that in two days Wade was so much worse that tho doctors Stopped both the powder* and tho mixturo. A month passed, tho poorb'reman getting worso and worse, ■WTjien came another doctor,' who was JRbo visiting physician for the next five mouths. He gave other medicines but not much relief. Nearly all tha time Wade suffered great torture j he ; digested nothing, throwing up all he ate. Thoro was terrible pain inltlie bowels,, burning heat in the throat, heartburn, and racking headache, The patient was now taking a mixture every four hours, powders one after each meal to digest 1 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, Eichard had an idea

1 that ho took enough to do it. But oil tlio other hand pleurisy set in and ihi ' doctors took ninety oiiiiccj 0/matter froiiWu's rii)ht Me, and thon told him hn% eure to. die, Fiye w«ntlj »ote

rolled,by,;-and;thorerwas another oliaiige of visiting', physicians, ; ;Tbo now one gave Wadea mixture which ho said made Aim tailzie Uh a le-i/ ona ,(r«. At this crisis Wade's Scotch blood asserted itsolt. Ho refused to stand any moro dosing, and told tho ductors that if ho must die he could die as well without thorn as with them, By this tmio a cup of milk would turn sour on his stomach, and lie thore for dajs. Our friend from Glasgow to like a wrpek on a shoal, fast going to pieces. Wo will Jet him toll tho rest of his experience in tho words in which he communicated it to the press , - Ho sayß; "Whon I was in fchia stato a lady whom I had novorseen csnio to tho hospital' and talked with mo, She proved to bo an angel of moroy, for without her I should not now bo alive Sho told mo of a niodiciiiocallad Mothor Soigol's Curativo Syrup,' nud brought me a bottle next day. : I started with it, without consulting tho doctor, and in onty a fm imji 1 time I was out 0/ W ailing forham (indcajj forbndfasl. From that time, keeping on with Mother Seigel's groat remedy, I got woll fast, and was soon able to loave the hospital and come homo to Glasgow. I now feel as if a was in another world, and have no illnesßof any kind." ~ Tho above facta are calmly and impartially stated, and the reador may draw his own conclusion. Wo deem it best to usouo names, although Mr Wade gavo them in his original deposition. His address is No. 244, Stubcross Street, Glasgow, where lcttois will reach him ■ , Kditok.