TEN MONTHS SUFFERING IN A HOSPITAL.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3478, 7 April 1890, Page 3

TEN MONTHS SUFFERING IN A HOSPITAL.

There is an old sayiiHjthat physicians are. a class of men who pour drugs, of whichthey know litlle, into bodies of which they kuow less, This is both true ami miruo(W*tbo same time. There aro good and poor lawyers, and cood and poor doctors. Tho trouble with these Baikal gentlemen as a profession is tWEMioy are clannish, and apt to be conceited.. They don't Hke to be beaten at thoir owu trade, iby ■ outsidors who have never studied medicine. They therefore pay, by thoir' frequent failures, the penalty of refusing instruction unless the teacher boars their own "Hall Mark," An eminent physician—Dr BrownSequard, of Paris-states the fact accurately when ho says: h Tho medical profession are so bound up in their self-conUdence and conceit that they allow the diamond "truths of science be picked up' by persons entirely outside their ranks." We give a most interesting incident, which Illustrates this important truth. Tho steamship " Concordia" of the. Donaldson Line,- sailed from Glasgow for Baltimore in 1887j having on board asa fireman a man named Richard Wade of Glasgow. He had been a fireman for fourteen years on vatious ships Bailing from America; China and India. Ho had borno tho hard and exhausting labour, and had been healthy and atroig. On the trip we now name he began for the first time to'foel weak and ill. His appetite failed and ho sutlered fronkjrowsiness, heartburn, a bad taste hi-Ce mouth-and• costiveness'and irre?»rity of the bowels. Sometimes whcU* "work he had attacks of giddiness but supposed it to bo caused by the heat of tho lire-room, Quite often he was sick and felt like vomiting and had some pain in the head. Later duriw; the passage ho grow worse, and when tho ship readied Halifax he was placed in the Victoria General Hospital, and the ship sailed away without him. The house surgeon gavo him aomo powders to stop tho vomiting, and the next day the visiting physician ?aVe hitn a mixture to take every fouv hours, that in two days Wado was bo much worse that the doctors stopped both the powders end the mixture, A month passed, the poor lireman getting worso and worse, Then came another doctor, who was to bo visiting physician for the next five months. He »ave other medicines but not much relief. Nearly all tha tiino Wade suffered great torture; he digested nothing, throwing up all he ate. Therewas terrible pain in|the bowels, borning heat in tho throat, heartburn; and racking headache. The patient was now taking a mixture every four hours, powders one after, each meal to digest the mi, operating pills one ovoty night, an "nporaturo pills two each night to stop the cold sweats. If drugs could cure him -at all, liicliard had an idea that ho took enough to do it. But on the other hand pleurisy set in and the iodm look ilikljj' i!i!ii«s 0/ matter from hit right side, and then told hini ho was sure to die;, five tiidnth more ipjiud by,, and thero was another chnfge qf:vißitii)»:;physic|ans, The new one gave Watte a mixture which ho rid mwkhim tremble like a lerfohq f|W. . At this crisis Wado's Scotch blood asserted itsolt, He refused to stand any more dosing, and told tho doctors that if hu must die ho could dio as well without them as. with them, By this time a cup. of milk would turn sour on hii stomach, and lie there for dajs, Our friend froin Glasgow was liko a wreck on a shoal, fast goiug to pieces, We will let him tell tho rest of his experience in the words in which he. communicated it to tbopress ■ ;■ , ijo says.' "Wlieti I rcas in this atato a lady whopilliad noyerEecncame to the hospital and talked with me. Sho proved to bo an angel of mercy, for without her I shouldnotnpw. bo. alive ino of a medicine called ■ Molaft Soigel's Curative Syrup,' and brought me a bottle next day. I started with it, without conjultinf ,tho doctor, and in ouhj a few days' lime J was out uf W cfl!liii/j/or/i«!|t md ess forkeakjmi. From that time," keeping .on with Mother fjeigelV great remedy, I go.t well fast, and was' Boon able to leave the hospital and come hprne to Glasgow I riow feel,.as if a ,was..in, an.other .world, apj bitve.no illiiess of any kind." 'The ajtove facta are calmly and Impartially stated, and tlie reader may draw his own conclusion., Wo deem It. best to usehQ.'M'ihra,. although Mr jjjjdo gave'thom in his original deposilK. Hb address is No. 241, Sfob. cross Street, Glasgow, whero Mil Tillrea?b.lito- ■ •■-., :■■■