TEN MONTHS SUFFERING IN A HOSPITAL.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3510, 14 May 1890, Page 4

TEN MONTHS SUFFERING IN A HOSPITAL.

There is an old a yingthat physimans are & class of men who pour drugs, of which they, know little, into bodies of which they know, less, This is both true aiid, unruo at tho same tirno, Thsre 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 be conceited. They don't like to be beaten at their own trado by oiitsidors who have never studiod mcdicino. Tjiey therefore pay, by their frequent failures, the penalty of refusing instrnelion unless the their own "Ball Mark,"

An eminent physician—Dr BrownSequard, of Paris-states tho foci

accurately when he says: "The medical profession are so bound up m their ielf-contidenco and conceit that they allow the diamond truths, of scienco be picked up by persons entirely outside their ranks." We give a most interesting incident, • which Uustrates this important truth. The steamship." Concordia" of the Donaldson Line, sailed from Glasgow for Baltimore in 1887, having on board ass fireman amannamedEichard Wade of Glasgow, Ho had been a fireman for fourteeri'yoars on various ships sailiuj| from Amorica, China and India. Ho had borne the hard and exhausting labour, and had been healthy and On the trip-we now name he began tor the first time to feel weak and ill. His appetito failed and ho sullered from drowsiness, heartburn, a bad taste jri the mouth , and costiveness and irregularity of the bowels. Sometimes when at work be had attacks of giddiness but supposed it to bo caused by the heat _of the lire-room. Quite often ho was sick and folt like vomiting and had some pain in the head, Later during the passage ho grew worsei and when tho Ship, reached Halifax ho waß placed in tho Victoria General Hbspital, and.the ship sailed away ivithout him. The house surgeon gave liim some powders to stop the vomiting, andtheuext.day the visiting physician pave him a mixture to take every' four hours, that in two days Wade was so much worse that thedoctors (topped both tho. powders and the mixture, A month passed, tho poor fireman getting worse and worse, Then came another doctor, who was to be visiting physioiao for the noxt five months. He gave other modioines but not much relief. Nearly all tha time Wade suffered great torture; ho digested nothing, throwing up all he ate, There was terrible pain in Ithe bowels, burning heat in the throat, heartburn, and racking headache, The patient was now taking a mixture every four hours, powders one after each meal to digest the food, oporating pills one every night, and temperature pills two each night to stop the cold sweats, If drugs could cure him at all, ltichard had an idea that he took enough to do it. But on the other hand pleurisy set in and the doctors took ninety ounces of mailer from Ms right side, and then told him he was sure to die. Five month more rolled , by, and thero was another change of visiting physicians, The new one gave Wade a mixture which he said mass him tremble like a lerf ona tret.

At this crisis Waders Scotch blood asserted itselt. Ho refused to stand anymore dosing, and told the doctors that if ho must die he could die as well without them qs with them, By this time a cup of milk would ,tlirn sour on 1m stomach, and lie there for days, Our friend from Glasgow was like a wreck in.a shoal, fast going to piefes, We will let him tell the rest of hii experience in the words in which he communicated it to tho press He Bays; "Whon I was In this state a lady whom I had never seen came to the hospital and talked with me., She provod to be an angol iJf mercy, for without 'her I should not now bo alive She told me of a medicine called Mother Seigel'a Curative Syrup,' and brought mo a bottle next day. I started with it, without coniultinp the doctor, and in only a few days' time I was out 0/ lied calling for ham an dtggs for breakfast. From that time, keeping 011 with Mothor Seigel's great remedy, I got well fast, and was soon able to loave the hospital and corno home to Glasgow, now feel as if a was in another world and have no 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 nam®, although Mr Wade gave them in hw original deposition, His address is No. 244, Stob°rosi Street, Glasgow, where letters will reach hiin Kdjior,