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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3523, 30 May 1890, Page 4

• IN A HOSPITAL. There is an old a yin; that physicians are a. class of men', who pour drugs, : of which lhoy ; know little; into bodies of whioh thoy know less This Is'' both, true and: tinrue: at the same time. There' are good and poor lawyers, and enod and poor doctors. Tho trouble with these medical gentlemen as a profession is that thoy are clannish, and apt to be conceited. They don't like to be beaten at.their own trade by,ontsidora who have never studied medicine, They therefore. pay, by their' frequent failures, the penalty of refusing instruction umdss tho teacher beare their own "Hall Mark."

&n eminent phyflician-Dr BrownSequaid, of Pariß—atatea the' fact accurately when he Bays: "Tho medical profossiori are so hound up in their self-contidenco and concoit that they allow the diamond trutlis of science he picked up by persona entirely outside thoir ranks." We.give a most interesting incident, which Uilstrates this important truth. The steamship "Concordia" nf the Donaldson Lino; sailed from Glasgow for Baltimore in 1887, having on board asa fireman a man named Richard Wade »f Glasgow; Ho had been a fireman for fourteen years on various ships sailin; from America, China and India. He had borne the hard and exhausting labour, and had been healthy.and straiß. On the trip wo now namo h 6 began for the first time to feel weak and ill. His appetite failed and ho Buttered I Irom drowsmosa, heartburn, a bad taste lin the mouth and costiYenons and irresrularity of the bowels. Sometimes when at work ho had attacks of giddiness but supposed it to bo oaused'by the heat of tho fire-room', Quito often he was sick and felt like vomiting, and had wnwp&to inifi? w, imtuHuriiifi the passage lie. grew worse, and when the ship reached Halifax he was placed m tho Victoria General Hospital, and the ship sailed away without him. The . houBS surgeon gave him somo powders | to stop the vomiting and the next day tho viaitiog physician pavo l|im a mixture to take every four hours, that in two days Wade was so much worse that thedoctors stopped both tho powders and tho mixture. A month passed, tho poor fireman getting worse and worse, Then came another doctor, who was to bo visiting pnysioian for the- next fivo months, He gave other medicines but not mnch relief. Nearly all tha time Wado suffered great' torture; he digested nothing, throwing npall lieato, Thero was terrible pain in |the boivols, burning heat in the throat, heartburn, and raoking headache. ■ The patient was now taking a mixture every four hours, powders one after each meal to digest the food, operating pills one every night, and teiriporature pills two each night to stop the cold sweats. If drugs could euro him at all, Richard had an idea that he took enough to do it. But on the other hand pleurisy set in andf/ic doctors took ninety oiw«s of matter fnmlm right side, ..and then told him ho was sure to die. Five month rnoro rolled by, and there was another chango of visiting physicians. The now.one gave Wade a mixture which ho said mad-, him tnmbh fife a hifona tree.

At thi3 crisis Wados Scotch blood asserted itsolt. He refusod to stand any more dosing, and told tho doctors that if ho must die ho could die as well without them as with them. By this time a cup of milk would tarn sour on his stomaoh, and lio there for daj s. Our friend from Glasgow was like a wreck in a shoal, fast going to pieces. Wo will let him tell the re3t of his experience in the words in which he communicated it to.the press Ho says. "Whon I was in this state a lady whom I had never seen came to tho hospital and talked with meV Sho j proved to bo an angel of mo'rcy, fori without her I should not now bo alive | Sho told mo of a medicine called Mother Soigel's Curative Syrup,' and brought me a bottle neit day. I started with it; without consulting the doctor, From' that time, keeping on with Mother Seigel'a greit remedy, I got well fasb, and was soon 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 kind." The abovo 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 Mb original deposition, His address is No. 244, S.toboross Street, Glasgow, where letters will reach.him- , 'Editor.

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