TEN MONTHS SUFFERING IN A HOSPITAL.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3516, 21 May 1890, Page 4

TEN MONTHS SUFFERING IN A HOSPITAL.

There is an old's yingthat. phyaiowns are a olaas of men who pour drugs, of which they' know little, into bodies of whioh they know less. This is both true and unrue at-the same time ( There aro good and poor lawyers, and: good and poor doctors. The trouble with these medical gentlemen as a'profession is tint they are clannish, and apt to bo conceited. They don't like to be beaten at their own trade, by outsiders who have novor studied medicine. Thoy therefore' pay, by their frequent failures, tho penalty of refusing instruction unless the teacher bears their own "Hall Mark."

An eminent physician—Dr BrownSequard, of Paris-states the fact accurately when ho. says; " Tho medical profession aro so bound up in their self-contidenco and conceit that they allow the diamond truths of science be picked up by persons entirely outside their ranks,'- Wc (jive a most interesting incident, .which Uustrates this important truth. The Bteanißhip " Concordia" of tho Donaldson Line, sailed from Glasgow for Baltimore in 1887, having on board asa firoman aimmnaraedEichard Wade of Glasgow. He had been a fireman for fourteen yoars on various ships sailin; from America, China and India. Ho had borne the hard and oihaustlng labour, and had been healthy and strong. On the trip we now namo he began for the first time to foel weak and ill. His appetite failed and ho Buttered trom drowsiness, heartburn, a bad taste in tho mouth and costiveness and irregularity of the bowels, Sometimes when ai work ho had attacks of giddiness but supposed it to bo caused by the boat of the fire-room. Quito often he was sick and felt like vomiting, and hod aomo pain in tho head, Later during the passage ho grew worse; and when the ship reached Halifax ho waß placed in the Victoria General Hospital, and the ship sailed k away without him,' The house surgeon gave him some powders to stop the vomiting, and the next day the visiting physician pave him a mixture to take every four bouts, that in two days Wade was bo much worse that thedoctora stopped both'the powders and the mixture. A month passed, the poor fireman getting worse and worso. Then came' another doctor, who was to be visiting physician for the next five months. He gave other medicines but not union relief, Nearly all tha time Wade suffered great torture j he digested nothing, throwing up all heate. There was torrible pain in|t>he bowl", burning heat in the throat, heartburn, and racking headache, The patient was now taking a mixture every four hours, powders one after eaoh meal to digest the food, operating pills ono every night, and temperature pills two each night to atop the 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 pleurisy set in and the doctors, took ninety ounces' of matter fromlm right side, and then told him ho was sure to die, Five month more rolled by, and there was another change of visiting physicianß. The new one gave Wade a mixture which he said madt, him tremble like a Inf oiwtree. •

At this crisis Wades Scotch blood assorted itsolt, Ho refused to stand anymore dosing, and told the doctors that if h« must dio he could die as well without them as with them, By this tlmo a cup of milk would turn sour on his stomach, and lie there for days. Our friend from Glasgow was like a wreck in a shoal, fast going to pieces. We will let him tell tho ron of his experience in the words in which he communicated it to the press

He says, "When I was In this state a lady whom I had never seen came to the hospital and talked with me. She proved to be an angel of mercy, for without her I should not now be alive She told me of a medicine called Mother Soigel's Curative Syrup,' and brought me a bottle next day, 1 started with it, without consultine the' doutor, and in only a fewdayi 1 time I was out of bed calling for Jmin and eggs for breakfast. From that time, keeping on with Mother Seigel'a great remedy, I got well fast, and was soon able to leave the hospital and come homo to Glasgow, now feel as if a was in another world and have no illness of any kind." The above facts are calmly and impartially stated, and the reader may draw his.own conclusion, Wo deem it best to use no names, although Mr Wade gave them hi his original deposition.' His address is No. 244, Stoboross Street, Glasgow, where letters willreaoh him- • •■.. Editor.