TEN MONTHS SUFFERING IN A HOSPITAL.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3486, 16 April 1890, Page 3

TEN MONTHS SUFFERING IN A HOSPITAL.

There is au old saying tliat iihyr mans aro a class of men who pon J drugs, of which Ilia j know little into bodies of which they Ino less, This is both trun and ut rue at the same time. There ai good and poor lawyers, and eood an poor doctors. The trouble with the< medical gentleman as a profession tint they are clannish, and apt to t conceited, They don't like to bßbeate at their own trade by outsiders wh have never studied medicine. The therefore pay, by their frequnr the penalty of refusing iiistrm tion nniosa the teacher bears their ow Halt Mark." An eminent physician—Dr Brown Sequard, of. Paris-states the fac accurately when ho says; "The medi i/ ~', 31011 mBO ' luut| d up in the! selrconlwonco and oonceit that the' allow the diamond' truths of ecienci be piokfld up by personß en tirely outside their ranks." Weidvi a moat intoroafiug incident, whicf Illustrates this important truth, Tho steamship "Concordia" of the Jwnaldson Line, sailed from Glasgoj in 1887, having on board hreman amannamedEichard Wade of Glaß.'Ow, Ho had boon a fireman t jor fourteen years on vartous abips sail. TVS' .' r, j n ! America. China and India He had borne tho hard and exhausting labour, and. had been healthy and atroi)>. On tho trip we now name he began for the first time to feel weak and ill. His ajipetito failed and ho suHered froift drowsiness, heartburn, a bad taste in the mouth and costivenesa and irregularity <jf tho bowels, Sometimes when at work he had attacks of giddiness but supposed ft to bo caused by the heat of tho fire-toom,. Quito often he wis sick and felt like vomiting and had boiuo pain in tho head. Later during the pawage ho grow woreo, and whon the Bhip reached Halifax he was placed in tho Victoria Qonoral Hospital, and the Bbip tailed away without him, The house surgeon gavo him somo powders to stop the-vomiting, and the nest day the visiting physician cave him a mixtuM to tako every four hours, that in two days Wade was so much worse that tha doctors stopped both the powders and the mixture, A month passed, tho poor li'eiiiaii getting worse and worse. Then coins another doctor, who was to be visiting physician for the noxt 6vo months. He I,'ave other medicines bnt not mnoh relief. Nearly all tha -time Wade suffered great torture j he Jflgested nothing, throwing up all ho ate. wfrro was terrible pain in |the bowels, burning heat in tho throat, heartburn, and racking headache. The patient was now taking a mixture overy four hoars, powdci'j one after each meal to digest the food, operating pills one every night, and temporaturo pills two each night to stop the cold sweats. If drugs could cure him at all, Itichard had an idea that he' took enough to do it. But on tho other hand pleurisy set is and<A« doctors ■ look nmty miica o/ unifier frrnhii right side, and then told him ho was sure to die. Five month moro to Hod by, and thero was onotlior change of. visiting physicians. The now one gave Wade a mixture which he fid miildm tremble like o kif oils tree, At -this crisis Wado a Scotch blood asserted itselt. He refused to stand any nioro dosing, and told tho doctors that if ho must die he could dio as well without them as with them. By this time a cup of milk would turn Bour on his stomach, and lio there for dajs. Our friend from Glasgow was lika a wreck on a Bhoal,.faat going to pieces, We will let him tell lhere3tcf his experience ifthe words in which he communicated {•Jto the press He says. "WhenJl iras in this state b lady whom I liad ndverseencaino to tho hospital and talked with nio. She proved to bo an' atigol of mercy, for without her I Bhould not now bo alivo She told mo of a medioine called Jlothor Soigel's Curative Syrup,' and fought mo a bottle next day, I started . ■!th it, witliont consulting the doctor, I ~nd fit only a few dap' time I wu's out of I M calling for him andeggs forbmlrfast i From that time, keeping on with I Mother Seigel's greit romedy, I got well 1 fast, and was soon able to leave the i hospital andjKWe home to Glasgow, I 1 now feel as If a waß in another world, '] and have no illness of any kind." The above facts are calmly and in partially stated, and the reader ma drawing own conclusion. We deem, best to nso.no names, although N Wade gavo them in his original depos tlon. His address is No. 244, Stol cross Street, Glasgow, where lettei will reach himEpjioe.