TEN MONTHS SUFFERING IN A HOSPITAL.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3513, 17 May 1890, Page 4

TEN MONTHS SUFFERING IN A HOSPITAL.

There ia an old a yingthat phyai- ; cians nro a eta of men who pour ' drugs, of which they know little, 1 into bodies of which they know 1 less, This is both true and anruo at tho same. time. There ate I good and poor 'lawyers, and good and 1 poor doctors. The trouble, with those medical gentlemen as a profession is 1 that thoy aro clannish, and apt to be ! conceited. jTheydon'tlike.tobebeaten' l at their own trade by outsiders who ] have never studied medicine, They theroforu pay, by their frequent failures, the penalty of refusing instruction unless the teacher bears their own "Hall Mark." An eminent physician—Dr BrownSequard, of Paris-states the' fact accurately when he says: " Tho medical profession are so bound up In their self-confidencb and conceit that they allow tho diamond truths of ecienco be picked up by ..persons entirely outside their" ranks." We give a most interesting incident, which llustrateß this important truth. The Bteamsliip " Concordia" of the Donaldson Line, sailed from Glasgow for Baltimore in 1887, having on .board asa fireman aman named Richard Wado of Glasgow. He had been a fireman for fourteen years on various ships sailin,? from America, China and India. He had borne tho hard and exhausting labour, and had been healthy and strong. On tho trip. wonow namo ho began for the first time to feel weak and ill. His appetite failed and ho sutlered irom drowsinosa, heartburn, a'bad taste in the. mouth and costivoness and irregularity of the bowels, Sometimes when at work ho had attacks of giddiness but supposed it to bo caused by the heat of tho fire-room. Quito often he was sick and felt like yomiting, and had somo pain in tho head. Later during the passage ho grew worse, v and when the. ship reaohed Halifax ho was place. J . in tho Victoria General Hospital, and the ship sailed away without him. The house surgeon gave him some powders to stop tho vomiting, and tho nest day tho visiting physician rave him a mixturn 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 worflo and worse. Then came another doctor, who was to be visiting physician for tho next five months. Ho gave othor medicines but nob much relief. Nearly all tha time Wade suffered great torture; he digested nothing, throwing up all ho ate, Tliero tos terriblo pain in [tho botvelß, burning heat in tho throat, heartburn, and racking headache, The patient was now taking a mixturo overj four hours, powders one after each meal to digeet the food, operating pills one every night, and temperature pills two oach night to stop tho cold sweats, If drugs could cure him at. all, Kichard 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 matter from his right side, and then told him ho was sure to die, Five month moro rolled by, and thoro was another change of visiting physicians. The new ono gave Wade a mixture which he said madt, him tremble lib a leif om tree. , At this crisis Wados Scotch blood asserted itselt. He refused to stand any more dosing, and told tho doctors that if ho must die he could die.as well without them as with them. By thi6 time a cup of milk would turn sour on his stomach, and lio there for da) s, Our friend from Glasgow was like a uwk in a shoal, fast going to pier eB. Wo will let him tell tho rest of his experience in tho words in which he communicated it to the prpjs Ho says, "Whon I was In this state a lady whom I had never seen camo to tho hospital and talked with me. Sho proved to be an angol of mercy, for without her I should not now bo alivo Sho told me of a medicine called Mother Beigel's Curative and brought mo' a bottle next day. I started with it, without consulting tho doctor, and in only a few days' time I wis out of bed calling for lam a,ndeggt forbrealfasl. From that time, 'keeping on, with Mother Seigel's'great remedy, I got woll fast, and was soon able to leave the hospital and como home to Glasgow, now feel as if a waß in another world and have no illness of any kind." Tho above ficts aro calmly and impartially stated, and the reader may draw his own conclusion. Wo deem it best to rae no names, althougn Mr Wade gave them in his original deposition. His address is No. 244, Stoborosa.Street, Glasgow, where letters will reaoh himEditor.