TEN MONTHS SUFFERING IN A HOSPITAI.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3514, 19 May 1890, Page 4

TEN MONTHS SUFFERING IN A HOSPITAI.

Thera is an mi s yingthat. physinana are. a class of men .who pour irtigs, of which tlioy ' know littlo, nto .bodies of which "thoy know ess. This is ■ both trio" and. un'uo at tho same time.«. Thero are ;ood and poor luwyore, and good and >oor Tho trouble with these nedical gentlemen as a profession, is hat thoy are clannish, and apt to bo loncoited. They don't liko to bo beaten it, their own trade'by ontßidors who tavo never studied medicine. They ;horeforo pay, by their frequent 'ailures, the penalty of rofusing instruction umess the teacher bears their own "Hall Mark." An eminent physician—Dr BrownSequard, of Paris-states tho fact accurately when he says: "The medical profession are so bound up in their lelf-oonfidenco and conceit; that they allow the diamond truths of science bo picked up by persons entirely outside, thoir ranks." We tjivo a most interesting' incident, which Uustrates this important truth. The steamship "Concordia" of the Donaldson Line, sailed from Glasgow tor Baltimore in 1887, having on board asa fireman a man named Richard Wade of Giasjow, He had boen a fireman for fourteen years on various ships sailin; froiit Amorica, China and India Ho had burno tho hard and exhausting labour,- and had been healthy and strong, On the trip wo now name he began fur the first time to feel weak and ill, His appetite failed and ho sutlered trom drowsiness, heartburn, a bad tasto in the mouth and costiveness and irregularity of the bowels. Sometimes when at ; work he had attacks of giddiness but it to bo caused" by the hpat of. tho fire-Mom. 'Quite often lie was sick and felt like vomiting, and had

some pain in the head. , Later during the passage ho grew worse, and- when the ship ioached Halifax ho was place - m tho Victoria General Hospital, aud the ship Bailed away .without him. The house surgeon gavo him some powders, to stop tho vomitinir, and the nest day the visiting physician pave him a mix* two to tako every four houri, ' that in two days Wade iyas bo much worse i that thedootors stopped both the powders and the mixture. A month passed, the puorliteman getting worse and worse, Then came another, doctor, who was ' to be visiting, physician for the ijoxt five months, He gave other medicines ' but not much relief, Nearly all tha ' time AVade suffered great torture; he j digested nothing, throwing up all he ate. ' There was terrible pain in [the bowels; ' burning heat in the throat, heartburn, ! and racking headache, The patient was ' now taking a mixture evory four hours, • powders one after each meal to digest the food, operating pills one every night, and toniperature pills two each night to » stop the cold swoats, If drugs could cure hiin at all, Richard had an idea ' that he , took enough to do it. But on the other hand pleurisy set in and t/icj doctors took ninety ounces of mutter , fromhis right side, and then told him he was sure to die. Fivo month more rolled by, . and' there was. another chango of visiting physicians.. The , now one gave Wade a mixture which he ' said md<.him toiMe lik a Icif ona tree, At this crisis Wade s 1 Scotch blood asserted itselt. Ho refused to' stand any more dosing, and tuld the doctors that if he must die he could dio as well without them as with them. By this time a cup of milk would turn sour on his stomach, and he thero for daj s. Our friend from Glasgow was like a.wreak ,in a shoal, fast going to pieces. We will ' let him tell the rc3D of his experience

in the words in which he communicated it to the press Ho says, "Wlion I was in this state a lady whom I lmd nover seen came to tlio hospital and talked with mo. She proved to bo an angol of mercy, for without her I should not now be alive She told 1110 of a medicine called' Mother' Soigel's Curative Syrup,' and' brought me a bottlo next day, I started with it, without cnmultiu? the doctor, and in only a few dap' ihnehms out 0/ bed calling for km and eggs forbmltfast From that time, kooping on .with Mother Beigel's great remedy, I got well fast, and was toon able to leave the hospital and come home to Glasgow, now feel as if a was in another world and have 110 illness of any kind." The above foots are calmly and impartially stated, and the reader may draw his own. conclusion, We deem it boss, to use no names, although Mr Wade pave them in hia original deposition. His address is No. 244, Stoboross Street, Glasgow, where letters will reach him Editor.