TEN MONTHS SUFFERING IN A HOSPITAL.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3530, 7 June 1890, Page 4

TEN MONTHS SUFFERING IN A HOSPITAL.

There is- an old sying ;that physicians are a class of .men who pour drugs, of which they know little; into bodies of which they' know less This is both true aud. unruo, at the: Baine time. There are good and poor lawyers, and good and poor doctors. The trouble with'these medical gentlemen as a profession is that they are clannish, and apt to bo conceited; They don't like to be beaten at their own trade by outsiders who have never studied inedicino. They therefore pay, by their : frequent failures, the ponalty of refusing instruction unless the teacher bears their own "Hall Mark." ".

.An eminent physician-Dr BrownSequard, of Paris-states the faot accurately when he says: ."Themedi: cal profession are bo hound upinthoir self-confidence and conceit that they allow the diamond trutha of science bo picked up by porsons en ; tirely outside their ranks," Wegivo a most .interesting incident, which 11 list rates this important truth. The steamship "(JoncOrdio" of the Donaldson Line, sailed from Glasgow for Baltimore in- 188?, having on board asa fireman amannamedEichard Wade of Glasgow, He had been a fireman for fourteen years on various ships sailin.;! from America, China and India. Hehad borne the hard and exhausting labour, aud had- been, healthy and strong, On the trip we now name ho began for tho first time to feel weak and ill. Bis appetite failed and ho Buttered -from drowsiness, heartburn, a bad taste in the mouth and costiveness and irregularity of the bowels. Sometimes when at work hehad attacks of giddiness but supposed it to bo caused by the lieat of .the fire-room, Quite often he was sick and felt like vomiting, and had some pain in the head, Later during the passage'ho grew worse, and when

tho ship reached Halifax lie was placed in the Victoria General Hospital, and the ship sailed away : without, him, The house surgeon gavo him some powders to stop the vomiting, and theuext day the visiting physician pave him a mixture to take every four hours, that in two days Wade was so muoh worse that thedoctors 'stopped both the powders and the mixture, A month passed, the poor fireman getting worso and worso. Then came another doctor, who was to be visiting physioiari for the next five months. He guvc other medicines but not much relief. Nearly all tha time Wade suffered great torture ; he digested nothing, throwing up all he ate, There was terrible pain in|tho bowels, burning heat in the throat, heartburn, and racking 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 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 on the other hand pleurisy set in and the doctors took ninety ounces of matter from'his right side, and then told him

)io was sure to dio. Five month moto tolled by, and thero waa another cliunge of visiting physicians. The new one gave Wado a mixture which ho said madt him tremble like a leaf ona tree. .' ■ ' .. At this crisis Wados Scotch blood asserted itselt, Ho refused to stand tiny moro 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 stomaoh, and lie there for dajs. Our friend from Glasgow was like a wrock in a shoal, fast going in pieces. Wo will let him tell the re3t of his experience in the words in which he communicated it to the oress

. He says, "!?hon I was in this state a lady whom I had never seen camo to the hospital and talked with me. She proved to bo an angol of. meroy, for without her I should not now bo alive She told me of a medicine called Mother Seigel's Curative Syrup,' and brought me a bottle next day, I started with it, without consulting the doctor, and in only a few days' time Ivm out of bed cattingforham andeggs forbreakfast From that time, keeping on with Mother Seigel's great remedy, f got well fast,, and was soon, able to leave tho hospital and come home to Glasgow, now feel as if a was in another world und havo no illness of any kind." . The above facts are calmly and impartially stated, and the reader may draw his own conolusiom 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, where letters will reach himEdiioe,