TEN MONTHS SUFFERING IN A HOSPITAL.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3509, 13 May 1890, Page 4

TEN MONTHS SUFFERING IN A HOSPITAL.

There is an. old s yingthat, physicians are a class of men who pour drugs, of which Ihey know little,' into bodies ■of which they, know less. This is both true and unriie at . the same time. There are good and poor lawyers, 1 and good and poor doctors, Tho troublo with these medical gentlemen as a profess : on is that they are clannish* and apt to be conceited. They don't like to be beaten' at their "own trade by ohtsidors who have nover studied medicine. They tlioroforo pay, by their frequent failures, the penalty of refusing instruction uniess the teacher bears their own "Hall Mark."

An ominont physician—Dr BrownSequard, of Paris-rstates the' fact accurately when lie says: "Tho medical profession aro so hound up In thoir self-c'ontidence and conceit .that they allow the diamond truths of Bcienco bo. picked up by porsors entirel outside thoir ranks." We give a most interesting incident, which Uustratea this important truth. Tho steamship " Concordia" of tho Donaldson Line, sailed from Glasgow for Baltimore in 1887, having on board »Ba fireman a man named Richard Wade of Glasgow, Ho bad been a fireman for fourteen years on various ships sailing from America, Ohiha and India, He had borne tho hard aud,exhausting labour, and had been healthy and stro"g. On tho trip we now namo: lie began for tbe first time to foel weak and ill. Bis appet'te failed and ho Bullered trom drowsiness, heartburn, a bad tasto in the mouth and,.costiveness and irregularity of the bowels. Soruotimes when an work ho had attacks of giddiness but supposed it to bo caused by the heat of the fire-room. Quito olten he wan sick and felt like vomiting, and had some pain in the head.' Later during the passage ho grow worse, and when the ship.,reached Halifax he was placei in tho Victoria General Hospital, and the ship sailed x away without him. The house surgeon gave him somo powders to stop the vomiting, and tho nest. day the visiting physician pave him a mixture to take every four hours, that in two days Wade was so much worse that thedoctors stopped both the powders and the mixture. A ; month passed, tho poor fireman getting worso and worse. Then came another doctor, who was to bo visiting physician for the next five months. Ho gave other medicines hut not much relief. .Nearly all tha timo Wado suffered great torture; ho digested nothing, throwing up all he ate. There was terrible pain in (the bowels, burning heat in tho throat, hoartburn, and racking headache. Tho patient was now taking a mixturo ovory four hours, powders one aftor each meal to digest the food, operating pills ono evory night, and temperature pills two caoli night to stop the cold Bweats, If drugs could cure him at all, Kiohard had an idea that ho took enough to do it. But on the other hand pleurisy set in and the doctors took ninety ounces of matter from his right side, and then told him ho was sure to die. Five month moro rolled by, And thero was another change of visiting physicians. The new ono gave Wado a mixture which ho said made him tremble like a letf ona tree. At this crisis Wados Scotch blood asserted itselr. Ho refused to stand any moro dosing, and told tho doctors that if ho must die he could die as well without them as with them, By this timo a cup of milk would turn sour on his stomach, and lie there for days. Our friend from Glasgow was like a wreck in a shoal, fast going to pieces. We will lot him tell the rest of his exporionco in tho words'in which he communicated it to the press He says; "Whon I was in this Btato a lady whom I had never seen camo to tho hospital and talked with me. She proved to be an angol of mercy, for without her I should not now boalivo She told me of a medicine called Mothor Seigol's Curative Syrup,' and brought mo a bottle next day. I started with it, without consulting tho doctor, aud in only a few days' time I was out of bd calliwjforham andeygs for breakfast. From that timo, keeping on with Mother Seigel's great remedy, I got well fast, and was soon able to leavo the hospital and come homo to Glasgow, now feel as if a was in another world and have no illness of any kind." The above faots aro calmly and impartially stated, and tho reader may draw his own conolnsioti, We deem it beßfc to use no namos, although Mr Wade gave them in his original deposition. His address is No. 244, Stoboross Street, Glasgow, whero letters . will reach him Editor,