TEN MONTHS SUFJFMING IN A HOSPITAL.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3527, 4 June 1890, Page 4

TEN MONTHS SUFJFMING IN A HOSPITAL.

Thero is an old a that physicians are a class of r men who pour drugs, of which 1 hoy know little, into bodies of which they know less This is both trao and unruo at the same time. Thero are good and poor and good and poor doctors. The trouble with these medical gentlemen as a profession is that they are clannish,:and apt to be conceited, Tlioy don't liko to be beaten at their own trade by outsiders who have nover studied mcdicino. They thcroforo pay, by their frequent failures, tbo penalty of refusing instruction unioss the teacher bears their own "Hall Mark."

An eminent physician—Dr BrownSequard, of Paris—states the fact accurately when lie says: "Tlio medical profession are so bound up m their self-contidonco and conceit that thoy "allow the diamond truths of science he picked up by persons entirely outsido their ranks." We give a most interesting incident, which llustrates this important truth. Tlio steamship " Concordia" of the Donaldson Lino, sailed from Glasgow for Baltimore in 1887, having on board asa fireman a man named Richard Wade of Glasjow. Ho had been a lirtman for fourteen years on various ships sailing from America. China and India, Ho had borne tho hard and exhausting labour, and had been healthy and strong. On the trip we now namo he began for the first time to fool weak and ill. Bis appetite failed and he suffered from drowsiness, heartburn, a bad tasto in the mouth and costivenesa and irregularity of tho bowels. Sometimes when at work ho had attacks of giddiness but supposed it to bo caused by the heat of tlio fire-room. Quito oftou ho was sick and felt like vomiting, and had isomo pain in tho head. Later during tho passage ho grow wowe, and when tho ship reached Halifax ho was placed in tho Victoria General Hospital, and the ship sailed away without him. The house surgeon gavo him somo powders to stop the vomiting, and the next day tho visiting physician rave him a mixture to take ovory four hours, that in two days Wade was so much worse that thodoctors stopped both tlio powders and tho mixta. A month passed, tlio poor lireman getting worso and worso, i , Then came another doctor, who was to be visiting physician for tho next five months. He gave other medicines but not much relief. Nearly all tha time Wado suffered'great torture; ho digested nothing, throwing up all ho ate, Thero was terrible pain in Itho bowels, burning heat in the throat, heartburn, and racking headache, Tho patient was , now taking a mixturo overy four hours, powders one after each meal to digest i the food, operating pills one evory night, , and temperature pills two each night to , stop tlio cold sweats, ■ If drugs could cure him at all, Richard had an idea that 110 took enough to do it. But oil tho other hand pleurisy sot in and the doctors took ninety ounces of matter from his right side, and then told him ho was sure to die- Five month rnoro rolled by, and thero was another change of visiting physicians. • The new one gavo Wade a mixturo which ho said matto Aim tremble like a letf om tree,

At this crisis Wados Scotch blood asserted itself. Ho refused to stand any more dosing, and told the doctors that if ho must die he could die as well without thorn as with them. By this tlmo a cup of milk would turn Bour on Ilia stomach, and lie thero for days. Our friond from Glasgow was liko a wrock in a shoal, fast going to pieces. Wo will let him tell the rest of his cxperionco ill tho words in which he communicated it to tho nress

He says; "When I was in this state a lady whom I had never seen camo to tlio hospital and talked with me. Slio proved to bo an angel of mercy, for without her I should not now bo alivo She told me of a mediciuo called Mother Soigel's Curative Syrup,' and brought mo a bottle next day. I started with it, without consulting tho dootor, and ill only a few days' time I was out of bed calling forham awl eggs for breakfast. From that time, keoping on with Mother Seigel'a groat remedy, I got well fast, and was soon able to leave the hospital and como home to Glosgoiv. now feel as if a was in another world and have no illness of any kind." The abovo facts are caimly and impartially. stated, and the reailor may draw his own conclusion!? We deem it best to uso no names, although Mr Wado gavo thorn in his original deposition, His address is No. 244, Stoboross Street, Glasgow, wbero letters will reach himEditor.