TEN MONTHS SUFFERING IN A HOSPITAL.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3517, 22 May 1890, Page 4

TEN MONTHS SUFFERING IN A HOSPITAL.

.There is an old ayinv't'hab phyaioians are « class nf men who pour dings, of'., which they know little, into bodies of which thoy know loss This is both trun and unmo at the same time.; There are good and poor lawyers, and eoodand poor dootors. The trouble with these medical gcntlomon as a profession is thut they aro clannish, and apt to bo conceited, Thoy don't like to be beaten at llioir own trade .by ontßidors who have never studied raedicino, They therefore pay, by. thoir frequent failures, the penalty of refusing inßtniulion unless tho teacher bears their own "Hall Mark.". ;

in eminent pliysician-Dr BrownSequard, of Paris-states the' fact accurately when he saya:- "Thomcdical profession aroao hound up in" their self-coiitidonco and conceit .that they allow tho diamond truths of science bo picked up by persons entirely outside their ranks." We give a most lntcroi'ting •incident, "which Uustrateß this important truth.; Tho steamship " Concordia" of Hie Donaldson Line, sailed 'from' Glasgow for Baltimore in 1887, having on board aßa fireman a man named Richard Wade of Glasgow.-Ho had been a fireman for fourteen years on various Bhips Bailing from America, China and India Ho had borne the hard and exhausting labour, and had been healthy, and strong. ,On the trip we now name ho began for the first time to feel weak and ill.; His appetite failed and ho suffered from drowsiness, heartburn, a bad taste in tho mouth and costiveness and irregularity of the bowels. Sometimes when at.wbrk hehad.attacksof giddiness but supposed it to bo oausedby! the heat of the fire-room. .Quito often he wan sick, and felt like vomiting, and had some pain in the head. Later during tho passage ho grew worse, and when the ship reached Halifax ho was place.-; iu the Victoria General Hospital, and the ship sailed away without him. The house surgeon gavo him some powders to stop the vomitittK,' aud the uext day the visiting physician pave him a rnixturn 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, the poor fireman getting worse and worse. Then came another doctor, who was to be visiting physician for tho next five months. He gave other medicines but not much relief. Nearly all tha time Wado suffered great torture; ho digested nothing, throwing up all ho ate. There was terriblo pain in (the bowels, burning hoat in tho throat, heartburn, and racking headache. The patient was how taking a mixture every four hours, powders one aftor each-meal to digest the food, operating pilis one every night, and temperature pills two each night to stop the cold sweats, If.drugs could cure him at all, Eichard had an idea that he took enough to do it. But on the other hand pleurisy set in'andf/ic doc/on took ninety ounces of unifier /Vom/iiVrij/iisWc, and then told him ho was sure to dio. Five month mor'o rolled by, and there wa's another change of visiting physicians. The new one gave Wade a mixture which ho mimad-Jwn trtmbk lihakif.OM tree.

At this. crisis. Wado.s Scotch blood asserted itselt. Ho refused to stand anymore dosing, and. told tho doctors that if hu. must die he. could die as well without them as with'thom. By this time a oup of milk would turn sour on his stomach, and he there for days. Our friend from Glasgow was like a wreck in a shoal, fast going to pieces. We will lot him toll tho rest of his : experience in tho words in which he communicated it to the Dress

He says. "Whon I was in this state a lady whom I had novor scon carao to tho hospital and: talked with me. She proved to,bo .an angel.of mercy, for without her Ishouldnot now bo alive She told me of a 'medioirie, called Mother Soigel'a Curative Syrup, 1 and brought'me a bottle next day. I started with it, without consulting tho doctor, and k only a few iatji'dimelwhs ditto/ bed calling forham andeggs forbrcaltfast. From that time, 'keeping on with Mother Seigel's great remedy, I gotwell fasfc r .ai)d was soon able to leave the hospital and como homo to Glasgow. . now fool as if a was in another world and have no illness'of arty kind." Tho 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 thorn in his original deposition. His address is No. 244, Stoborosa Street, Glasgow,"where'letters will reach him .'Editor.'