TEN MONTHS SUFFRIING IN A HOSPITAL.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3485, 15 April 1890, Page 3

TEN MONTHS SUFFRIING IN A HOSPITAL.

There is an old sayingthat physicians are a class of men who pour drugs, of whichthey know little, into bodies of which they know less, This is both .true and unrue at the same time. There are good and poor lawyers, and food end poor dootors. The trouble with theße medical gentlemen as a profession is tint they are clannish, and apt to be conceited, Tliey don't like to be beaten at their own trade by outsiders who have never studied medicine. They therefore' pay, by their' frequent failures, the penalty of refusing instruction unless the teacher bears their own "Hall Mark." Aa eminent physician—Dr BrownBequard, or Paris-states the fact accurately when ho says: "Thomcdiare so hound up In their Jpconlidence and conceit that they 9uW the diamond troths of scienco be picked up by persons entirely outeido their ranks," Wesivo a most interesting Incident, which illustrates this important, truth, the steamship "Concordia" of the f Donaldson Line, sailed from Glasgow . lor Baltimore in 1887, having on board fiea fireman a man named Richard Wade of Glasgow.. He had been 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 Biro");, On the trip wo now namo he began fur (tie first time to feel weak and ill. His 'appetite failed and he sutlored from drowsinoss, heartburn, a bad taato in the mouth, and costivoncas and irregularity of tho bowels, Sometimes when at work he had attacks of giddiness but supposed it to bo caused by the heat of the tire-room. Quito often he wiiß sick and felt like vomiting and had Borne pain in the head, Later durinij the passage ho grew worse,, and when tho ship reached Halifax ho was placoi in tho Victoria General Hospital, and the ship sailed away without him. The houee surgeon gavohim some powders Jtitopthevomitiiii!, and the nest day ■ uSlfisitinß: physician pave him a mixturn to take every four hours, that in two days Wade was so much worse that the doctors stopped both the powdort and the mixture. A month passed, the poorfi'eman getting worse find worse, Then came another doctor, who was to be visiting physician for the ncs,t fivo months, He gave other ipdjcincs but not much relief. Nearly all tho timeWado suffered great torture j he digested, nothing, throwing up all he ate', r -? There was terrible pain in |the bowelß/" %.. horning beat in the throat, heartburn, and racking headache. The patiotit was now taktni; a mixture every four hours, powders one after eaoh meal to'digest tho food, operating pills one overy tight,

stop the-cold Bwoati, If drugs could euro him at all, Richard had an idea that ho took enough to do it. But on the other, hand pleurisy set in and me iklon koii ninety ounces o/twitter from his right tide, and then told. him. ho was sure to die. Fivo month nioro rollod by, and there' was another chango of visiting' physicians, Tho now ono gave Wade a mixture which he siid mad-Jiim iremble like o hnf oikc Inc.i At this crisis Wadus Scotch blood assertod itaolr. Ho refined to stand anymore dosing, and told the doctors that if he must die ho could dio as well without them as with them. By this limoaoupofmilk would turn sour on his stoimioh, and Ho there for dajs. Our friond from Glasgow was like a wreck on a shoal, fast going to pieces. Wo will let him tell tho test of his experience in tho words in which he communicated It to tho Dress

Ho says, "ffhonjt was In this state a lady whom I had nover seen came to tho hospital and talked with me. iSho provod to be an angol of mercy,' for without her I should nut now bo alive She told me of a medicine callad Mother Suigol's Curative Syrup,' and bronght mo a bottlo nest day. I started with it, without consulting tho doctor, and fn only a few dayt' time I kmj out of bid caUiriyforlmn mxdtggs forbru&fati. From that timo, keeping •on with Muthor Suigol's groat remedy, J got well fast, and was soon able to'leave the hospital and come homo to Glasgow. I now fool as if a was in souther world, and have no illnosn<tf any kind," The abovo f.icts nro calmly and im« partially statod, and tho reader may draw hiß own conolusiun, We deem it best to. nso no namo3, although Mr Wade gave thorn in hbf original dopngition, His address is No, 241, Ktobcross Street, Glasgow; where letteis will reach him Koitnn,