TEN MONTHS SUFFERING IN A HOSPITAL.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3518, 23 May 1890, Page 4

TEN MONTHS SUFFERING IN A HOSPITAL.

Thorn is an okl-a yia» (hat physicians ,are •a . class nf, men who ipour' drugs, 'of <which ihefc 'know little,' into bodies of whioh they know leas This is both ttue and Unrue at tho same time. Thsro are good and poor lawyers; and 'good and poor doctors. Tho trouble with these medical gentlemen as a'profession is that they aro clannish, and apt to bo conceited. They don't like to be beaten at their own''trade by outsiders who hivo never studied medicino. Thoy therefore pay, by their frequent failures, tho penalty of refusing instruction umess tho teacher bears thoir own "Hall Mark."

An eminent,physician—Dr BrownSoquatd, of Paris—states tho fact accurately when he says: '! The medii cal profession aro so bound up m their self-contidenco and conceit that they allow the diamond truths of scienco bo picked up _by persons entirely outsido thoir ranks." We give a most interesting incident, which 11 ustrates this important truth. ' • The steamship, " I'oncordia",, f>f the Donaldson Lino, Bailed from Glasgow for Baltimore in 1887, having on board nsa fireman a man named Richard Wade nf Glascow. Ho had been a fireman for fourtoon years on various ships sailinjr from America, China and India Ho had; borne tho hard and exhausting labour, and had been healthy and strong. On the trip wo now namo ho began fi/r tho first time to foel weak and ill. Bis appetite failed and ho Buttered trom drowsinoßa, heartburn, a bad tasto in tho mouth and costiveness and irregularity of the bowels. Sometimes when at work ho had attacks of giddiness but supposed it to bo caused by the hoat of tho fire-room. Quito often ho wan sick and felt like vomiting, and bad some pain in the head. Lator during tho passage ho grew worse, and when the ship iea'ched Halifax he was placed m tho Victoria General Hospital, and the' ship sailed away without him. The house s'urgion gavo him aom'e powders to stop the vomitine, and tho next day the visiting physician pave him a mixturn to take every four hours, that in two days Wado was so milch worse that thodoctors stopped both tho powders and the mixture. A month passed, the poorlireman getting worse and worso. Then came another doctor, who was to be visiting physician for the next five months. He n.ivo other medicines but not nnoh relief. Nearly all tha time Wado suffered great torture ; lie digested nothing, throwing up all lie ato. There was terriblo pain in jt.be bowels, burning heat in tho throat, heartburn, and racking headache, 'l'he patient was now takim; a mixture every four hours, powders one after each meal to digest the food, operating pills one every night, and temperature pills two each night to stop the cold sweats, If drugs could cure liirn at all, Richard had an idea that he took enough to do it, flutoli the other hand pleurisy set in and the doctors took, nineiy mmccs of-matter from his right side, and then told him ho was sure to dio. Five month moro rolled by, and there was another change of visiting physicians. The new ono gave Wade a mixture whioh he 9nidm<K(-,/iim tremble like a le-ifona tree.

At this crisis Wados Scotch blood assertod itselt. He refused to etand any raoro dosing, and told tlio doctors that if hy mu6t die he could die ns well without them as with them. By this time a cup of milk would turn sour on lite stomach, and lie there for dajs, Our friend from Glasgow was like a wrenk in a shoal, fast going to pieces. We will lot him toll the reßt of his experience in the words in which he communicated it to the Dress

He sayi. "Whon I was In this state a lady whom I had nevor seen tamo to the hospital and talked with mo. She proved to bo an angol uf mercy, for without her I should not now bo alivo She told mo of a medicine called Mother Boigel's Curative Syrup,' and brought me a bottle noxt day. I started with it, without conaultin? tho doctor, and in only a ft to days'- time Ims out of bed calling forhrn anieggs forbnakfast. From that time, keeping on with Mother Seigel's great remedy, I got well fast, and was soon able to leavo the hospital and como home to Glasgow, now feel as if a was in another world and have no illnossof any 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 them in his original deposition. His addw is No. 244, Stoborosa Street, Glasgow, whero letters will reaoh himEditor.