TEN MONTHS SUFFERING IN A HOSPITAL.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XL, Issue 3528, 5 June 1890, Page 4

TEN MONTHS SUFFERING IN A HOSPITAL.

There is au old a yin 5 that physicians aro a class of ; men who pour drugs, 6f which thoy know little, into bodies ' of" which' they knorr less This is both truo and • unrue at tho same time,- There aro' good and poor lawyers, and good and poor doctors, ■ The trouble with these medical gontlemen as a profession is that they aro clannish, and apt to be conceited, Thoy don't liko to bo beaten at their own trade by outsiders who have never studied medicine.' Thoy therefore pay, by their frequent failures, the penalty of refusing instruction uniess the teacher bears their own "Hall Mark."

An eminent physician—Dr BrownSequatd, of' Paris-states, the fact accurately when ho says: "The medical profession are so bound up in their self-confidenco and conceit that thoy allow tho diamond truths of science be picked up by persons entirely outside their ranks." AYeqive a most interesting 'incident, which Uustrates this important truth. The steamship " Concordia" of tho Donaldson Lino, sailed' from Glasgow for Baltimore in 1887, having 011 board asa fireman a man named Richard Wade of Glasgow. Ho had been a fireman for fourteon years on various ships sailing from Amorioa, China and India. He had borne tho hard and exhausting labonv, and had:been healthy and strong. On the trip, we now name he began for the first time to feel weak and ill. His appetite failed and 110 sutlered jrom drowsiness, heartburn, a bad taste in the .mouth and costiveness and irregularity of the bowels, Somotimcs when at work ho had attacks of giddiness but supposed it to bo caused by the boat of the lire-room. Quite often 110 wan sick and felt liko vomiting and had somo pain in the head. Lator during tlio passage 110 grow worse, and when the 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 the visiting physician gave him a mixturn to take evory four hours, that in two days AVado was so much worse that thedoctors stopped both the powdors and the mixture. A month passed, tho poor fireman getting worSo and worse. Then came another doctor, who was to be visiting physician for tho next fivo months. He gave other medicines but not much relief. Nearly all tha time Wade suffered great torturo; ho digested nothing, throwing up all 110 ate. There was terrible pain in (the bowels, burning heat in tho throat, heartburn, and racking headache. Tho patient was now taking a mixture ovcry four hours, powders one aftor each meal to digest the food, operating pills one every night, and temperature 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 oil tho other hand pleurisy set in and the doctors took ninety ounces of matter from his. right side, and then told him ho was sure to die. Five month more rolled by, and thero was another change of visiting physicians. The new one gavo Wade a mixture which he said made Aim tremble like a leif ona tree. At this crisis Wados Scotch blood assertod itself. Ho refused to stand any nioro dosing, and told the doctors that if he must die he could die as well without thorn as with them, By this time a cup of milk would turn sour 011 1m stomach, and liothoro for days. Our friend from Glasgow was liko a wreck in a shoal, fast going to pieces. Wo will let him tell tho re3t> of his experience in tho words in which he communicated it to tho press Ho says; "Whonl was in this state a lady whom I had never seen caino to tho hospital and talked with me. Sho proved to be an angel of mercy, for without her I should not now bo alivo Sho told mo of a medicine called Mother Seigel's Curative Syrup,' and brought me a bottle nextday. I started with it, without consulting the doctor, and tji onfi/ a few days' lime I was out of bed calling for ham aiidcggs for breakfast. From that time, keeping- on with Mother Seigel's great remedy, I got well fast, and was soon able to leave tho hospital and como homo to Glasgow, now feel as if a was in another world and liavo no illness of any kind." The abovo facts aro citimly and impartially stated, and tho reader may draw his own conolusio® We deem it best to uao no names, although Mr Wade gavo them in his original deposition, His address is No. 244, Stoboross Street, Glasgow, whero letters will reach himEditor,