TEN MONTHS SUFFERING IN A HOSPITAL.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3511, 15 May 1890, Page 4

TEN MONTHS SUFFERING IN A HOSPITAL.

'There is an old s yinglhat physicians aro n, class of men who pour drugs,' of which they know littlo, into bodies of which they know less. This is -both truo and unrue at the same time. There are good aud poor lawyers, and good and poor doctors, Tho trouble' with these medical gentlemen sb a profession is that they are clannish, and apt to be conceited, They don't liko to bobeaton at their own trade by ontsidors who havo never studied mediciho. Thoy therefore pay, by their frequent failures, the penalty of rofusing instruction unless the teacher bears their own "Hall Mark."

An eminent physician—Dr BrownSequard, of Paris-states the, faot accurately when he saya: "Tho medical'profession aro so bound up in their self-contidenco and conceit thatlh'ey allow the diamond truths of science bo picked up by persons entirely outside tnoir ranks." We give a most intcroating incident, which llustrates this important truth. The steamship "Concordia" of the Donaldson Line, sailed from Glasgow

for Baltimoro in 1887, having on board asa fireman amannamedßichard Wade of Glasgow, Ho had been a fireman for fourtoon years on various ships sailin/ from America, China and India. Ho had borne the hard aud-exhausting labour, and had been healthy and strong, On the trip we now name he began for tho first time to feel weak and

ill. His appetite failed and ho sullered trom drowsiness, heartburn, a bad tasto in tho mouth and costiveness and irreimlarity of the, bowels. Sometimes when at work be had attacks of giddiness but supposed it to bo caused by ,the heat of tho tiro-room. Quito often ho was sick and felt like vomiting, and had some pain in the head. Later during the passage ho grew worse, and when the ship reached Halifax he was placed in tho Victoria General Hospital, and the ship.sailed away without him. The house surgeon gave him some powders to stop tho vomiting, and the next day the visiting physician save him a rnixturo to take every four hours, that in two days Wade was so much worso that thedoctors stopped both the powders and the mixture. A month passed, tho poor fireman getting worse and worso. Then came another doctor, who was to bo visiting physician for the next five months. He gave other medicines but not much rolief. Nearly all tha time Wade suffered great torture; he digested nothing, throwing up all he ate. Thero was terrible pain in (tho bowels, homing heat in the throat, heartburn, and racking headache. Tho pationt was now taking a mixture every four hours, powders otic after each meal to digest tho food, oporating pills one every night, and temperature pills two eaoh night to stop the cold sweats. If drugs could cure him at nil, Richard had an idea that he took enough to do it. But (in the other hand pleurisy set in and t/ic dodon took ninety ounces o/mailer frimhis rij/it side, and thon told him

ho was sure to die. Five month moro rolled by, and there was another change of visiting physicians, The new one gave Wade a mixture which he said mad*/tim Imnble lik a leif ona Ira,

At this crisis Wados Scotch blood asserted itselt, He refused to stand any more dosing, and told the doctors that 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 stomach, and lio thore for dajs, Our frpd from Glasgow was like a wreck in a shoal, fast going to pieces, - We will let him toll the rest of his experience in the words in which he communicated it to the mm

He says; "When I min this state a lady whom Iliad nevor seen camo to the hospital and talked with me. She proved to be nn angel of moroy, for without her I should not now bo alivo Slio told me of a medicine called Mother Soigol'a Curative Syrup,' and brought me a bottle next day. I started with it, without consulting the doctor,, and in only a few days' time I was out of bed calling for /mm amicus forkeakfart. From, that time, keeping on-with Mother Seigel's great remedy, I got well fast, and was Boon able to leave the hospital aud come home to Glasgow, now feel as if a was in another World

and have no illness of any kind," _ I 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 Wade gave them in his original deposition. His address is No. 244, Stoboross Streot, Glasgow, where letters will reach him Editor,