TEN MONTHS SUFFERING IN A HOSPITAL.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3512, 16 May 1890, Page 4

TEN MONTHS SUFFERING IN A HOSPITAL.

There is an .old s yingthat physi- J elans are.iaVolass of; men) jwhijifibUr.,' drugs,'"of which'the? 'know little,' ' into bodies of which' thoy., know ' less, This*is 'both true mid un- i rue at the same time. Thtre an ( good and poor lawyers, and good and ' poor doctors. The trouble with theso medical gentloman as a profession is i thst they are clannish, and apt to bo < conceited. They like to be beaten i at thoir own trade' by, ontsidors who ] have nover studied medioino. Thoy I tliorefore pay, by their frequent ] failures, the penalty of refusing iustruc- i lion umoßß the" teacher bears their own i "Hall Mark." ; : ;:;:-':. .An eminent physician—Dr Brown- ' Sequard, 'of Paris-states the fact i accurately when he says: "The-medi-cal profession are so hound up in thoir self-confidence and "conceit that thoy allow the diamond truths of science be pioked up, by , persons 'entirely, outside thoir ranks."- "We i»ive i a most interesting incident, which llustrates this important truth. Tho steamship "Concordia" of the Donaldson Line, sailed froiii Glasgow for Baltimore in 1887, having on board asa fireman a man named Richard Wade of Ghwfow. He had been a fireman for fourtoon years .on various Bhips sailing from America, China and India He had'borno the hard and exhausting labour, and had been healthy, and strong. On the trip wo now name he began for the first time to feel weak and ill. His appetito failed and ho Buttered jrom drowsiness, heartburn, a bad taste in tho mouth and coativeness and irregularity of the bowels. Sometimes when at work lie had attacks of giddiness but supposed it to bo caused by the heat of tho fire-room. Quito often he win, sick and felt like vomiting, and had siinie pain in tho head. Later during the passage ho grew worse, and when the ehip reached Halifax he was placo* in tho \ ictoria General Hospital, and the ship sailed away without hiim The house surgeon gavo him some powders to stop the voniitini;,' and tho nest day the visiting physician pave him a mixture to take overy four hours, that in two days Wado was bo much worse that khedoctors stopped-both the-powders and the mixture, (k month passed, the poorli'eman getting worso and worse, Then came another doctor, who was 1 to be visiting, physician for the "next five months. Ho gave other medicines but not much relief. Nearly all- tha' 1 tiino Wado suffered great torture; he '' digested nothing, throwing up all ho ato. ; There was terrible pain in |tho bowels, ; burning heat in tho throat; heartburn, ' and racking headache. Tho patient was now tiikni!,' a mixture every four hours, powders one after each meal to digest the food, opornthiK pills one.ovary night, and temperature pills two each night to 1 stop tho cold sweats. If drugs could ! cure him at all, Richard had an idea that ho took enough to do it. But on the Other hand plouriay set in and the rtocfow took ninety oihiks o/inato fromhis right side, and then told him he 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 ho said nifldv Aim trouble lik a lei/ono tree, At this crisis Wados Scotch blood asserted itselt. Ho .refused to Btand any moro dosing, and told tho doctors that if ho, must die he could die as well without them as with them. By this tiino a cup of milk would turn sour on his stomach, and ho there for daj s. Our friend from Glasgow was like a wrock ill a shoal, fast going to pieces, We will let hiin toll the rest of his experience in the words in which he communicated ■it to tho press He says; "When I was in this state a lady whom I had never seen came to the hospital and talked with me. Sho proved to bo anangolof mercy, for without her I. should not now boaiivo Sho told mo of a medicine called Mother Seigel'a Curative Syrup,' aud brought me a bottle' next day, I started with it, without consulting the doctor, and in only a, few days' time Irons out of bed alloy for ham and eggs for brcahfast. From- that time, keeping .on with Mother Seigcl's groat remedy, I got well . fast, and was soon able to leave the hospital and come home to Glasgow, now feel as if a was, in another world and havo no illnesß of any kind." Tho above facts aro calmly and impartially Btatod, and the reader may draw his own conclusion, Wo deem it best to nso no names, although Mr Wado gavo them in his original deposition, His addresß is No. 244, Stob- . cross Street, Glasgow, where letters will reach him Kdhou,'