TEN MONTHS SUFFERING IN A HOSPITAL.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3504, 7 May 1890, Page 3

TEN MONTHS SUFFERING IN A HOSPITAL.

There is an old b yingthat phyaiuians are a class of men who poor drugs, of which thoy know littlo, into bodies of which thoy know less. This is both truo and tinrue at tho same time. There are

good and poor lawyers, and good and poor doctors. The troublo with these medical gentlemen as a profusion is that .thoy are clannish, and apt to bo /'.jjfllceitcd. Thoy don't like to bebeaton ~ JJftlioir own trado by ontsidors who n?vo novor studied medieino. Thoy therefore pay, by tlieir frequent failures, the penalty of refusing instruction unless tlio teacher bears their own "Hall Mark." | . ' -An eminent physician—Dr BrownSoquard, of Paris-states tho fact accurately when he eaya: " The medical profession are so bound up in their self-conlidondo and conceit that they nlloiOlio diamond truths of ocience iftskod up by persons enifttirely outeide'thoir ranks," Weifivo most mtore3ting incident, which lluslrates this important truth. . Tho steamship " Uoncordia" of the Donaldson Line, sailed from Glasgow for Baltimore in 1887, having on board asa fireman a man named Richard Wade of Glasgow. Ho had been a-fireman for fourteen years on various ships sailin* from America, China and'lndia • He had borno the hard and exhausting labour, and had been healthy and stroig. On tho trip we now namo lie began for the first time to feel weak and ill. His appetito failed and he Buttered from drowsiness, heartburn, a bad tasto in tho mouth and costivencss 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 lire-room. Quite often ho wan sick and felt like vomiting, and had sonio pain in the head. Later during ho grew worse, and when tna- ehip reached Halifax he was placei in the Victoria General Hospital, and the ship sailed away without him. The house surgeon gave him some powders to stop the vomiting, and .the next day ' the visiting physician pave him a mixture to take every four hours, that in jCwo days Wade was so much worse that Ijthodootors stopped both tho powders and the mixture. A mouth passed, tho poorfireman getting worse and worse. Then came another doctor, who was ' to bo visiting physician for the next fivo months. He gave other medicines but not much relief. Nearly all tha time Wado suffered great torture; he digested nothing, throwing up all heato.

Thero was terrible pain in (the bowels, homing heat in tho throat, heartburn, and racking headache. Tho patient was now taking's mixture every four hours, ponders one after each meal to digest the food, operating pills one every night, and tomperature pills two each night to atop the cold Bweats. If drugs could cure him at all, Richard had mi idea that he took enough to do it. But oh the other hand pleurisy sot in and the doctors' took ninety ounces of mutter ftomhii tight side, and then told him he was sure to die. Five month moro rolled by, and thero was another change of visiting physicians, The new one gave Wade a mixture which he said made. Aim iwnbk lib afafona tree. «this crisis Wados Scotch blood ed itselt. He refused to stand j4j' more dosing, and told the doctors ''Wat if he must dio he could die as well without them as with them. By this time a cup of milk would turn sour on

his Btomach, and lie there for dnjs, Our friend from Glasgow was liko n wreck on a shoal, fast going to pieces. We will let him tell the rest of his experience in the words in which he communicated it to the press Ho says; "Whon I was in this state a lady whom I had nover Been came to the hospital and talked with me. She proved to bo an angel of. mercy, for without her I should nob now bo alive 6ho told me of a medicine called Mother Seigel's Curative Syrup,' and brought me a bottle next day, I started with it, without consulting tho doutor, and inonly a few days' time Iwu out of led wlliiy forfom anrfcjjj forkiakfasl. From that time, keeping on with Mother Seigel's groat remedy, I got well fast, and was soon able to leave the hospital and come home to Glasgow. now feel aa if a was in another world and have »o illness of any kind."' The above facts are calmly and impartially stated, and the reader may draw his own conclusion. We deem it best to use no names, although Mr fihie gave them in his original deposi--Im. Bis address is No. 244, Stobota Street, Glasgow, whero le will reach him Kbit