TEN MONTHS SUFFERING IN A HOSPITAL.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3531, 9 June 1890, Page 4

TEN MONTHS SUFFERING IN A HOSPITAL.

There is an old s yin* that physicians are, a class of. men who poiir drugs, of which (hoy know little,' into bodies of which they , know less This is both trun and un : rue at tho same time, There are good and poor lawyers, and rood and poor doctors. ,Tho trouble with these medical gentlemen as a profession is that they are elannish, and apt to be conceited. .Thoy don't like to bo beaten at their own trade, by. outsiders, who have never studiod .medicine. They therefore .pay, by their frequent failures, tho ponalty of refusing instriic•ion.umess the teacher bean their own "Hall Mark." '

An eminent physician—Dr BrownSequardi ; of Paria—atdtos the fact accurately when he says: "The medical prbfession aro so. hound up in their self-confidenco and conceit that thoy allow the diamond truthß of .science bo- picked up by persons ' entirely outside thoir ranks.". We give j« most .interesting incident, which llu'slrates this important truth. The steamship " Concordia" ■ of tho Donaldson Line, sailed from Glasgow for Baltimore in 1887, having on board asa fireman a man named Richard Wade of jQlasjow;' 1 Ho had boon '8 fireman for fourteen years on various ships sailin? from America, China ■ and India. Ho had borne the hard and exhausting' labour, and had beon healthy and strong, On tho trip wo now namo he began for tho firat time to feel weak and ill. Bis appetite failed and ho suffered from drowsiness, heartburn, a bad tasto jin the mouth and costiveness and irregularity .of the bowels.Sometimes whon at work he had attacks of giddiness but supposed it to bo caused by the heat tho fire-room. Quite often he was siok and felt like vomiting, and had some pain in tho head, Later during the passage he grow worse, and when the ship reached Halifax he was places' iu tho Victoria General Hospital, and the ship sailed away without him. The house surgeon gave him some powders to atop tho vomiting, and the uext day the visiting physician pave him a mixture to take evory four hours, that in two days Wade was so much worse that thedoctors stopped both the powders and tho mixture, A month paßsed, the poor fireman getting worse and worse. Then came another doctor, who was to be visiting physician.for the next five months. He gave other medicines but not much relief, Nearly all tha time Wade suffered great torture; he digested nothing, throwing up all ho ate. There was terrible pain in jthe bowels, burning heat iu 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 tho cold Bweats. If drugs could cure him at all, Richard had an idea that ho took enough to do it, But on the other hand pleurisy set in .and the took ninety ounces of matter from his right side, and then, told him ho was sure to dio; Fivo month moro rolled by, and there was another change of visiting physicians, The now one gave Wade a mixture which he wid madi him tremble like a leif ona Im.

At this ciiaia Wados Scotch blood asserted itselr. He refused to stand liny niore dosing, and told tho doctors that if ho must die he could die as well without them as with them. By this time a cup uf milk would turn sour on lus stomach, and ho thoro for da) 6, Our friend from G|ass;ow wa3 like a wronk in a shoal, fast going to pieces. Wo will lot him tell tho mi of his experience in the words iu which lie communicated it to the Dress

Hosayb, "When I was in this state a lady whuin I had naver seen camo to the hospital and talked with me. She proved to be an angel of mercy, for without her I should not now bo alive Sho told mo 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 dap' time I wis out of bed calling forfom and eggs forbrmkfast. From that time,, keeping 011 with Mother Seigel's groat romedy, J got well fast, and was soon able to leave the hospital and come home to Glasgow, lioiv feel as if a was in anothor world and have no illness of any kind." I The abovo facts are calmly and impartially stated, and the reader may drawhia own conclusion, We deem it best to nsono names, although Mr Wade gave tbem in his original deposition. His addresi is No. 244,Stoboross Street, Glasgow, where. letters will reaoh him* Emior.