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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3521, 28 May 1890, Page 4

TEN MONTHS. SUFFMING IN A HOSPITAL.

There is an old s yin; that physicians are a class of men who pour drugs, of which (hey know little,' into bodies of which they know toss This is both true and unrue at tho same time, Thero are good and poor lawyers, and good-and poor doctors. The trouble with these medical gentlomen as a profession is tint they are clannish, and apt to be conceited, They don't like to be beaten at their own trade by outsiders who have never studied medicine. They therefore pay, by their frequent failures, tho penalty of rofusing instruction uniess the teacher bears their own "Hall Mark."

An eminent physician-Dr BrownSequard, of Paris—states the fact accurately when ho 6ays i " The medical profession aro so hound up in their self-contidence and conceit that they allow the diamond trutlu of science bo picked up by persons entirely outside their ranks." We give a most interesting incident, which Uustratcß this important truth, Tho steamship " Ooncordio" flf tho Donaldson Line, sailed from Glasgow for Baltimore in 1887, having on board asa fireman a man named Richard Wado of Glasgow. He had been a firoman for fourteen years on various ships sailing from America, China and India. Ho had borne the hard and exhausting labour, and had been healthy and strong, On tho trip wo now name he began for the first time to (eel weak and ill, His appetite failed and ho suffered tram drowsiness, heartburn, a bad tasto in tho mouth and costiveness and irregularity of the bowels. Sometimes when at work bo had attacks of giddiness but supposed it to bo caused by the heat of the fire-room. Quito often he was sick and felt like vomiting, and had some pain in the head, Later during the passage ho grew worso, and whou the ship reached Halifax he was placed in tho Victoria General Hospital, and the ship sailed away without him. The house surgeon gavo him some powders tOßtopthevomitin", and tho next day the visiting physician pave him a mixture to tako every four hours, that in two days Wade was so much worse that thedoctora stopped both the powdore and the mixture, A month passed, the pooriireman getting worso and worso. Then camo another doctor, who was to be visiting physician for the next five months. He gave other medicines but not much relief. Nearly all tha timo Wade suffered ; groat torture; he digested nothing, throwing up all he ate. There was terriblo pain in jtho bo ids, burning heat in the throat, heartburn, and racking headache. The patient was now taktna a mixture every four hours, powders one after each incal to digest the food, operating pills one every night, and temperature pills two each night to stop the cold sweats. If drugs could cure him at all, Bichard had an idea that he took enough to do it, But oh the other hand pleurisy set in and the doctors took ninety ounces of mutter fromhis right side, andthon told him ho was sure to die. Five month rnoro rolled by, and there was another change of visiting physicians. The new one gave Wade a mixture which he snidm«(L/iim tremble like a Iw/oint tree. At this crisis Wados Scotch blood asserted itself. He refused to stand any more dosing, and told the 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 da) 6. Our friend from Glasgow was liko a wreck iua shoal, fast going ti pieces, Wo will let him tell the rest of his experience in the words in which he communicated it to tho nress

He says, "Wlion I min this state a lady whom I had nover seen camo to the hospital and talked with vac. She proved to be an angol of mercy, for without her I should not now bo alive She told mo of a modicino callod Mother Seigel's Curative Syrup,' and brought me a bottle next day. I started with it, without consulting tbo doctor, and tii only a few days' lime I was out oj kd calling for ham andeyys forkeakjast From that time, keeping on with Mother Seigel's great remedy, J got woll fast, and was soon able to leavo the hospital and come homo to Glasgow, now feel as if a was in another world and have no illness of any kind," Tho above facta are calmly and impartially stated, and the reader may draw his own conclusion. We deem it best to use no names, although Mr Wade gave them in his original deposition, His address is No. 244, Stoboross Street, Glasgow, whero letters will reach himEditor.

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