TEN MONTHS SUFFERING IN A HOSPITAL.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3519, 24 May 1890, Page 4

TEN MONTHS SUFFERING IN A HOSPITAL.

There is an old syinj that'physicians are a class of men who pour drugs, of which Iheyknow little, into bodies of which they know less This is both true' and unrue at the same time. Thero aro good and poor lawyers, and good and poor doctors. Tho trouble with these medical gentlemen as a profession is th«,t thoy are clannish, and apt to bo conceited, They don't like to be beaten at their own trade by outsiders whn have never studied medicine. Thoy therefore pay, by their frequent failures, the penalty of refusing instruction umoss tho teacher bears their own "Hall Mark."

An qminent physician—Dr BrownSequatd, of Paris—states the fact accurately when ho says: "The modical profession are so hound up in their self-coiitidence and conceit that they allow the diamond truths of scienco bo picked un by porsotiß entirely outside their ranks." We give a most interatiiig incident, which llustrates this important truth, Tho steamship " Concordia" of tho Donaldson Lino, Bailed from Glasgow for Baltimore in 1887, having on board asa fireman a man named Richard Wade uf Glasgow. Ho had boon a fireman for fourteen years on various ships sailin; from America, China and India Ho had borne the hard and exhausting labour, and had been healthy and strong, On the trip wo now namo ho began for the first time to feel weak and ill, His appotite failed and ho Buttered from drowsiness, heartburn, a bad taste in the mouth and costiveness and irregularity of the bowels, Sometimes whon at work he had attacks of giddiness but supposed'lt to bo cau3ed~by the hoat d the lire-room, Quito often he "was siolt and felt like vomiting, and had snmo pain in tho head, Later during tho passage ho grew worse, and when the ship reached Halifax he waß placed in tho Victoria General Hospital, and the ship sailed away without him. "The house surgeon gave, him some powdprs to stop the vomitins-, and the next day the visiting physician pave him a mixturn to take every four hours, that in two days Wade was so much worse that thedoctors stopped both tho powdors and tho mixture. A month passed, tho poor ti'eman getting worso and worse, Then camo another doctor, who was to bo visiting physioian for the nost five months. Ho gavo othor modioiues but not ni'ioh relief. Nearly all tha time Wade suffered great torture; he digested nothing, throwing up all ho ate, There was terrible pain in ;t,ho bowels, burning heat in the throat, heartburn, and racking headache, Tho patient was now takini! a mixture every four hours, powders one after oach meal to digest tho food, oporatiiiL' pills one every night, and tomporature rills two each night to stop the cold sweats, If drugs could cure him at all, Richard had an idea that he took enough to do it, But on the other hand pleurisy set in and the doctor* took miieti/ minces of matte/ fnmhis right side, and then told him ho was sure to die. Five month more rolled by, and there waa another change of visiting physicians, The new one gave Wade a mixture which ho said mad him tremble like akifona tree, At this crisis Wades Scotch blood asserted itselt. Ho refused to stand any moro dosing, and told tho doctors that if he must die he could die as well without them as with thorn. By this time a cup of milk would turn soar on his 6tomaoh, and he thore for dajs. Our friend from Glasgow was like a wreck in a shoal, fart going to pieces. We will let him tell the re3t of his experience in tha words in which he communicated it to tho nress He says. "Whon I was in this state a lady whom I had never seen came to the hospital and talked with me. Sho proved to be an angol of mercy, for without her I should not now bo alive She told nio of a medicine called Mothor Seigel's Curative Syrup,' and brought mo a bottle next day, I startod with it, without . consulting the duutor, and in only a few dap' time I was out of ied catting forhim andeggs forkeahfast, From that tinio, keeping on with Mother Seigel's groat remedy, I got woll fast, and was soon able to leave the hospital and come homo to Glasgow, now fool as if a was in anothor world and have no illness of any kind." Tho abovo facts are calmly and impartially stated, and tho reader may draw Mb own conolusion, Wo deem'it best, to use no names, althougn Mr Wade gavo them in his original deposition. His address is No. 244, Stobonus Street, Glasgow, whero lottera will reach himEditor.