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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3526, 3 June 1890, Page 4

TEN MONTHS SUFFMii& IN A HOSPITAL "

There is an old s yin» that physicians are a clnas of men who pour drugs, of which lliey know little, intq bodies of which thoy know less This is both ttun and unruo at tho same time.' There aro good and poot lawyers. and eood and pool' doctors. Tho tronblo with these medical gentlemen as a profession is th.it they are clannish, and apt to bo conceited. They don't like to bo beaten at their own trado by oirtsiders who luvo novor studied 'medicine. They therefore pay, by their frequent failures, the penalty of refusing instruction unless tho teacher bears their own "Ball Mark."

An eminent physician—Dr BrownSequard, of Paris-states tlie fact accurately when ho says: " The medical profession aro so bound up in thoir self-conlidonco and conceit that tlicy allow the diamond truths of science bo picked up by persons entirely outside their ranks." Wcyivo a most interesting incident, which 11 usl rates this important truth. ■ The steamship " Concordia" of tho Donaldson Lino, sailed from Glasgow for Baltimore u\ 1887 i having onboard asa fireman a man named Richard Wade of .Glasgow. Ho had been a iirtman for fourteen years on various ships sailing from America, China and India. Ho had borno tho hard and exhausting labour, and had been healthy and stro'ig, Oil tho trip wo now namo ho began for the first time to feel weak and ill. His appetite foiled and ho sutlored trom drowsineac, heartburn, a'bad taste in Hie mouth and costivonoss and irregularity of the bowels. Sometimes when at work lie had attacks of giddiness ! but supposed-it to bo caused by the i heat of the lire-room. Quito often ho < was sick and felt like vomiting, and had some pain in tho head. Later during the passage he grew worso, and when tho ship reached Halifax he was placed in the Victoria General Hospital, and the ship sailed away 'without him, Tho house surgeon gave him somo powders to stop the vomiting, and the next day tlw visiting physician pavo him a mixture to tako every four hours, that in two days Wade was so much worso that , thedootors stopped both the powders and tho mixture. A month passed, tho poor fircimnn getting worso and worso. Then.came another doctor, who was to bo visiting physician for tho next tivo months. Ho save other, medicines but not much relief. Nearly all tha time Wado suffered great torture ; he digested nothing, throwing up all lie ate. Thero was terriblo pain in|l.he bowels, burning heat in tho throat, heartburn, and racking headache, Tho patient was now taking a mixture every four hours, powders one after each meal to digest tho food, operating pills one evory night, and temperature pills two each night to stop tho cold sweats. If drugs could euro him at all, Richard had an idea that he took enough to do it, But 0)1 tho other hand pleurisy set in and the doctors took iiincli/ ouncfs 0/ malfcr from his right side, and then told him ho was sure to die. Five month moro rolled by, and thero was another chaugo of visiting physicians. The now 0110 gave Wade a mixture which 110 saidw«rft/iim tremble lik a kif on® 'rcc,

At this crisis Wados Scotch blood assorted itselt, Ho refused to stand nny more dosing, and told the doctors that if ho must die ho could die as well without them as with them. By this tirno a cup of milk would turn sour on his stomach, and ho there for daj s. Our friend from Glasgow was liko a wrock in a Bhoa), fast going to pieces, We will lethiin toll thoreuof his experience in the words in which he communicated it to the press Ho says, "When I mis in this Btate a lady whom I had never seen camo to the hospital and talked with mo, Slio pvovod to bo an angel of mercy, for without her I should not now bo alive She told me of a medicine called Mother Seigol's Curative Syrup,' and brought me a bottlo nest day, I started with it, without consulting the doctor, and in only a few dap' time I wus out of bed calliwj forhm amkijp forbrcalfasl. From that tinio, keeping on with Mother Seigcl's great remedy, I got well fust, and was soon nblo to leave the hospital and coine home to Glasgow, now feel as if a was in anothor world and havo no illness of any The above facts nro calmly and impartially stated, and tlia reader may draw his own conclusion Wo deem it best to uso no names, althougli Mr Wado gave thorn in his original deposition, His address is No. 241, Stoboross Street, Glasgow, wliero letters will reach himEdhoh.

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