TAN MONTHS SUFFERING IN A HOSPITAL.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3495, 26 April 1890, Page 3

TAN MONTHS SUFFERING IN A HOSPITAL.

There iB an old saying that pliyßiuiahs aro a olaas of nicn wlui pour drugs, of whichthoy know littlo, into bodies of which they know less. This is both true and unruo at tho same time, There are good and poor lawyers, and L'ood and poor doctors, tho troublo with these medical gentlomen as a profession is \ja tint tlioy are clannish, and apt to bo conceited. Tlioy don't like to be beaton at thoir own trado by outsiders who have novor studied mediiiino. They thorefore pay, by thoir frequent failures, the penalty of refusing instruction unicss tho teacher bears their own "Hall Mark." An eminent physician—Dr BrownBequard, of I'aris—states the fact accurately when ho says: " Tho medical profession are so bound up m their self-contidenco and conceit that they allow tho diamond truths of scienco bo picked up by persona enfcltircly outsido their rankß." Wenivo r"a| most interesting incident, which illustrates this important truth, Tho steamship " Concordia" of tho Donaldson Lino, sailed from Glasgow for Baltimore in 1887, having on board asa fireman anun named Richard Wndo of Glasgow. 110 had boon a fireman for fourteen years on various ships sailill.? from America, China and India. 110 had burno tho hard and oxhaustmg labour, and lwd been healthy and strong. On tho trip wo now namo ho began for tho first lime to feel weak and • ill. Uis appetite failed and ho suflercd . from drowsiness, heartburn, a bad taste { in tho mouth and costivenoss and 'Wurrcsmlarity of tho bowels, Sometimes at work lie had attacks of giddiness but supposed it to bo caused by the boat of tho fire-room, Quito often ho wis sick and felt like vomiting and had some pain in tho head. Lator during the passage ho grew worso, and when tho ship roachcd Halifax ho was placei in tho Victoria General Hospital, and the ship sailed away without hiin. Tlio house surgeon gavo him some powders to stop tho vomiting, and tho next day tho visiting physician ravo him a mixturn to take every four hours, that in two days Wade wns so much worse that thodoctors stopped both tho powders and the mixture. A mouth passed, tho poor fireman getting worso and worso, Then came another doctor, who was _! to bo visiting physician for tho next months. Ho gave other medicines v Tiut not mnch relief. Nearly all tha time Wndo suffered great torture; he digested nothing, throwing tip all ho ate. There was terrible pain in |tho bowels, burning heat iu tho throat, heartburn, and racking headache, Tho patient was now taking a mixture every four hours, powders one after each meal to digest the food, operating pills ono every uight, i and temperature pills two each night to ■tstop the cold sweats, If drugs could •Ocuro him at all, Richard had an idea that he took enough to do it. But oh the other hand pleurisy sot in and the doctors took ninety ounces of matter from his right side, and then told him he wns sure to die. Five month more ' rolled by, and. tlioro was another change of visiting physicians. The now one gave Wade a mixture which he said mai>, him tremble like a IcSf ona tree. At this crisis Wados Scotch blood asserted itselt, He refused to stand any more dosing, and told tho doctors that if he must dio he could dio as well without them as with them. By this time a cup of milk would turn sour on his stomach, and lio there for dajs, Our friend from Glasgow was like a wreck on a shoal, fast going to pieces, Wo will lot hiin toll the vest of his experience in the words in which he communicated •it to tho press He says; "WhenJl was in this state a lady whom I had never seen came to hospital and talked with me. She ■pfcved to be an angel of mercy, for without her I should not now bo alive She told me of a medicine called Mother b'eigel's Curativo Syrup,' and C brought ine a bottle next day. I started with it, without consulting tho doctor, and in oirii/ a 'few 'Jays' time I was old of ied calliii'j for hum and eggs for breakfast. Prom that time, keeping on with Mother Seigel's groit remedy, I got well fast, and was soon able to leave the hospital aud-come home to Glasgow. I now feel as if a was in another world, and havo no illness of any kind." The abdve facts are calmly and impartially stated, and tho reader may draw his own conclusion, Wo deem it best to use no names, although Mr Wade gave them in his original aeposi-. tion. His address is No. 244, Stobcross Street, Glasgow, where letteis will reach him Editor,