TEN MONTHS SUFFERING IN A HOSPITAL.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3515, 20 May 1890, Page 4

TEN MONTHS SUFFERING IN A HOSPITAL.

Thora is an old s yingthat physi- J cians aro a class of men who pour " drugs, of which they, know little, e into bodies of whioh thoy know " less. This is both truo and .un- v rue at tho same time. Thero are 8 good and poor lawyers, and good and ' poor doctors. The trouble with these medical gentlemen as a profession is * th'it thoy are clannish, and apt to be r concoited. They don't like to bebeaton c at.their owirtrade by outsiders who I havo never studied niedicino, They * therefore, pay, by thoir frequent j failures, the penalty of refusing instruc- | tion nniofls the teacher bears their own ' " Hall Mark." ; '.. ' An eminent physician—Dr Brown- ' Sequard, of Paris-states the fact ' accurately when he. says: "The, medi- ' cal profession are so bound up in thoir ' self-coiitidenco and conceit that they ' allow the diamond truths of science I bo picked up •,'by persons entirely outside', their ranks." Wegivo ' a most interesting incident,. which lluslrates this important truth, ' Tho ateamship " Uoncordio" of tho Donaldson Lino, sailed from Glasgow ' (or Baltimore in 1887, having on hoard asa fireman amannamedKlchard Wade of Glasgow. He had boon a fireman ' for fourteen yoars on various ships sailin.' from America, China and India He had borno tho hard and exhausting labour, and had been healthy and stroll;. On the trip wo now name ho began for tho first time to feel weak and ill. Ilis'appotito failed and ho Buttered trom drowsiness, heartburn, a bad tasto in the mouth and costivehess and irresmlarity of the bowels. Sometimes when at work ho had attacks of giddiness but supposed it to bo caused by the heat of the tire-room. Quite often he wan sick and felt like vomiting, and had some pain in tho head. Later during tho passage ho grew worso, and when the ship roached Halifax ho was placed m tho Victoria General Hospital, and the ship Bailed away without him, The I house surgeon gnvo him some powders to stop the vomiting, and tho next day tho visiting physician wve him a mixture jo take every four hours, that in two days Wade .was so much worso that thodostors stopped both tho powders ' and tho mixture. A month passed, tho f poor ti'cman getting worso and worso. r Then came another doctor, who was i to be visiting pliyiiician for tho next 3 fivo months. Ho gave other medicines J but not much relief. Nearly all tin 8 timo Wade suffered great torture; he digested nothing, throwing up all he ate. s There was terrible pain in Jthe bowels, ' burning heat in the throat, heartburn, 1 and racking headache. The patient was . now taklrn; a mixture evory four hours, powders one after each meal to digest the hod, oporatina pills one every night, and temperature pills two each night to stop the cold sweats. If drugs could cure him at all, Richard had an idea that ho took enough to do it, But on i the other hand pleurisy set in and t/ie • doctors took, ninety ounces of mtttr i fromkis right side, andthon told him he was sure to die. Five month-more d rolled by, and thero was another change of visiting physicians. The now one gave Wade a mixture which ho said mad, Aim toiMc life a lei/oim tree. •

At this crisis Wados Scotch blood asserted itselt. He refused to stand any more dosing, and told tho doctors that if ho 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, mid ho there for dajs. Our friend from Glasgow was like a. wre«k ill a shoal, fast going to pier es, Wo will let him te'l the rat, cf his experience in the words iti which he communicated it to tho press

Hesayb, "Whon I was in this state a lady whom I had never seen anno to tho hospital and talked with me. She proved to be an angel of morcy, for without her I should not tow bo alive She told mo of a medicine callad Mother Buigel'a Curativo Syrup,' and brought me a bottle next day. 1 started with it, withont consulting tho doctor, and inoiily.a few bed, calling forham and eggt for breakfast From that time, keeping on with Mother Seigol's great reinody, I got woll fast, and was soon able to leave the hospital and como-homo to Glasgow, now feol as if a was in another world »hd have no illness of any kind." • •■ The above hots are calmly and impartially stated, and the reader may draw his own conclusion, Wo deem it best to nse no names, although Mr Wado gave them in his original deposition, His address is No. 214, Stoboross Street, Glasgow, whero letters will reach him Ediior,