TEN MONTHS SUFFERING IN A HOSPITAL.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3501, 3 May 1890, Page 3

TEN MONTHS SUFFERING IN A HOSPITAL.

There is an old s yingthat phyaiuians are a eta of men who pour drug?, of which (hey know little, into bodies of which thoy' know lets. This is both true and unrue at the same time. / There are '<. ' > good and poor lawyers, and good and .;•..■ •■' poor doctors. The trouble' with these .'-.,. medical gentlemen as a profession is '% that they are clannish, and apt to bo dfikeited. They dun't like to be beaten • own trade by ontudora who have never studied medicine. They therefore pay, -by their frequent failures, the penalty of refusing iuatruction uniess the teacher bears tlieir own "Ball Mark." • ; in eminent-physician—Dr BrownBequard, of Paris-states the fact accuratelywhen:ho'says; "The mescal profession ato so bound up m their / j#conn'dcnco and conceit that thoy sJaw tlio diamond truths of science bo picked lip' by persons entirely outside their ranks," Wei>ive al most interesting incident, which Iterates this important truth, The steamship " Ooneordia" of the Poflaldsqn, Lino, sailed from Glasgow (fir Baltimore in 1887, having on board asa Greman a man named Richard Wade of Glasgow, Ho had been a fireman for fourteen years on various ships sailin? from America,-China and India. He hafVborae the hard and exhausting Uponr, and bad been, healthy and itro-'g. On the trip we now namo he began for the first time to feel weak and ill, His appetite failed and ho suUered from drowsiness, heartburn, a bad tasto in the mouth and costiveness and irregularity of the bowels, Sometimes, whk at work he had attacks of giddiness butlupppsed 'It to' be.oau'sed by the heat of the ire-room, Quite often he was sick and felt like vomiting, and had some, pain in the head, Later during the passage ho grew i?orse; and'when the ship reached Halifax he was placed in the Victoria General Hospital, and the ahip sailed away without him. The house surgeon gavohim somo powders to Btop the vomiting, and the next day the visiting physicianVave him a mixta to take every four hours, 'that in two days Wade was so much wprsp tjitf' thedcictors etiippe<j botli the powder* ' ' apd tlje mixture. ; ' A month'pasae'd, the £oor hreman getting worse and worse came another doctor, who was »-bo visiting physician for the nbxt

but not ranch relief, -Nearly all tha time Wado-suffered great torture; lie digested nothing, throwing up all ho ate.' There waq terrible pain iti |tho bowels,burning heat in- the throat, heartburn, and racking Koadaobe. Tho patient was now taking a mixture every four hours, powders one after each' meal to digest the food, operating pills one everv nifcht, and temperature pills two each night to stop tho cold awoata. ]f drugs could euro 4iira at all, Richard had an idea that ho took, enough to do it. But oh thonthqr hand plourisy sob in and (lie ((ocfoN, tool ninety, ounces of mutter fromhis right tide, and thou told him he was sure to die. Five month inoro rolled by, and thero was another change of visiting physioiana. The now ono gave Wndo a mixture which he Midmadi/iiH! tremble like a lenfona tree.

At this crisis' Wados. Scoloh blood assorted itselt, Ho -rofusod to-stand anyraoro dosing, and told tho doctors that if ho must dio he could dio as well without thorn as with them, By this tune a cup of milk would turn sour on his stomach, and lio there for dajs. Our I friend from Glasgow, was lib a wreck on a ahonl, fast going to pieces.- We will let him toll tho re3t of his experience in the words in which he communicated it to tho press '

Ho says, "Whonl was in this state a lady whom I had never aeon camo to tho hospital and talked with me. She proved to bo an angel of morcy, for without her I should not now bo alive Sho told me of a .medicine called 1 Mothor Soigol's Curative Syrup,' and brought mo a bottle nest day, ■ I started with it, without cnnsultin? the doctor, and in only a few days' thulwm out of bed calling forham amhggs forkcakfasl. From that time, keeping on .with Mothor Soigel's groat remedy, I got well fasVand was soon, able to leave the hospital and come homo to Glasgow, now feel as if a was- in anothor world and hare no illnessof any kind."