TEN MONTHS SUFFERING IN A HOSPITAL.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3520, 27 May 1890, Page 4

TEN MONTHS SUFFERING IN A HOSPITAL.

There is an old s yin; that physicians aro a class of men who pour drugs, of which Ihoy know little, into bodies of whioh they know less This is both truo and unruo at the same time. There aro good and poor lawyers, and good and poor doctors. Tho trouble with these medical gentlemen as a profession is thst they aro clannish, and apt to bo conceited. They don't like to be beaten at tlioir own trado by ontsidors who have never studiod medicine. They therefore pay, by their frequent failures, the penalty of refusing instruction uniess tho teacher bears their own "Hall Mark." An eminent physician—Dr BrownSequard, of Paris-states the fact accurately when ho says: "Tho medical profession are so bound up in their self-confidonco and conceit that they allow the diamond truths of science be picked up by persons entirely outsido thoir ranks," We give a most interesting incident, which llustratea this important truth, Tho steamship " Concordia" of tho Donaldson Lino, sailed from Glasgow for Baltimore in 1887, having on board asa fireman amannamedKichard Wado of Glasgow. He had been a fireman for fourteen years on various ships sailin/ from America, China and India. He had'borne the hard and exhausting labour, aud had been healthy and strong. On the trip we now namo he began for the first time to feel weak and ill, Bis appetite failed and ho suffered trom drowsiness, heartburn, a bad taste in the mouth and costiveness and irregularity of tho bowels. Sometimes when at work ho had attacks of giddiness but supposed it to bo caused by the hoat of tho lire-room. Quito often he was sick and felt like vomiting, and had some pain in tho head. Later during the passage ho grow worse, and when tho ship reached Halifax he was placed m the Victoria General Hospital, and the ship sailed away without him, The house surgeon gavo him some powders to stop tho vomiting, and thenoxt day tho visiting physician pave him a mixture to take every'four hours, that in two days Wado was so much worse that thedoctors stopped both the powdors and the mixture. A mouth passed, tho poor fireman getting worso and worso. Then came .another doctor, who was to be visiting physician for tho next five months. Ho gavo other medicines but not. much relief. Nearly all tha timo Wado suffered great torture j he digested nothing, throwing up all he ate. There was tcrriblo pain in |tho boivels, burning heat in the throat, heartburn, and racking headache. ■ Tho patient was now taking a mixture overy four hours, powders one after each meal to digest tho food, operating pills one every night, and temperature pills two each night to stop tho cold sweats. If drugs could cure him at all, Richard had an idea that lie took enough to do it, But oil tho other hand pleurisy set in and t/ie doctors took .ninety ounces of matter from his right side, and then told him he was sure to die. Five month moro rolled by, and thero was another chango of visiting physicians. The now ono gave Wado a mixture which ho said madt him tremble lihe a leif ona tree.

At this crisis Wados Scotch blood asserted itselt. He refused to stand any moro dosing, and told tho doctors that if he must die he could die as well without them as with them. By this time a cup of milk would turn sour on his stomach, and lie there for days. Our friend from Glasgow was like a wrook in a shoal, fast going to pieces. We will let him tell tho re3t of his experience in tho words in which he communicated it to the press Ho says; "When I was in this state a lady whom I had never seen.camo to the hospital and talked with me. She proved to be an angol of mercy, for without her I should not now bo alivo She told mo of a medicine called Mother Seigel's Curative Syrup,' and brought mo a bottle next day. I started with it, without consulting the doutor, and in only a few days' time Ivm out of bed calling for ham and eggs forbmlfast. From that time, keeping on with Mother Seigel's groat remedy, I got well fast, and was Boon able to leavo tho hospital and come home to Glasgow, now feel as if a was in another world and have no illness of any kinii." Tho above facts are calmly and impartially stated, and the reador may draw his own conolusiou. We deem it best to use no names, althougti Mr Wade gavo them in his original deposition. His address ia No. 244, Stoboross Street, Glasgow, where letters will reach hiinEditor. ... «wn