TEN MONTHS SUFFERING IN A HOSPITAL.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3533, 11 June 1890, Page 4

TEN MONTHS SUFFERING IN A HOSPITAL.

There ia an old syinsj that physicians arp a ola'Bs,pf ; men who pour drugs, -of-which they' know:little, into bodies of which,they know less This is .both true and unrue at the same time. There are good and poor,lawyers;, and eood and poor doctors. The trouble with these medical gentlemen as a profession is that they aro clannish, and apt to-be conceited, They don't like to be beaten at their own trade by iontsidors who have never studied medicine. They therefore pay, by their .frequent failures, the penalty of rofusing instruction unless tho teacher bears their own "Hall Mark.": ! -

An eminent physician—Dr BrownSequard,; .of. Paris-states'.: the hil accurately when he say's: "The medical profession aro so .bound up in their self-contidenco and conceit that they allow tho diamond truths of scienco be- picked up by persons entirely outside their ranks." . Vie give a most interesting inoident,, which llustrates this important truth, : The steamsnip "Concordia" of the Donaldson Line, Bailed from Glasgow for Baltimore in 1887, having ou board asa 6remau a man named Richard Wade of. Q|asgow. He had been a fireman for fourteen years on various ships sailing from America, China and India Ho had borne the hard and exhausting labour, aud had been healthy and strong, On the trip we now name he began for tho first time to feel weak and ill, His appetite failed and ho sutlered trom drowsiness, heartburn, a bad taßte in tho mouth ' and costiveness' and irregularity of the bowels, Sometimes when at work he had attacks of giddiness but supposed it to be caused" by the heat of the fire-room. Quite often ho wn» sick and felt like vomiting, and had Bomo pain in the head, ■ Later during the passage ho grew worse, and when the •ship reached Halifax ho was placoi ill this Victoria General Hospital, and the ship sailed away without him. The house surgeon gavohim some powders to stop the vomiting, and tho next day the visiting physioian pave him a mixture to take every four hours, that in two days Wade was so much worse that thedootors - stopped both tho powderb and tho mixture. A month passed, tho poor fireman getting worso and worse. . Then came another doctor, who was to bo visiting physician for the next five months. He gave other medicines but not much relief. Nearly all-tha. time Wade ..suffered great torture ; he digestod nothing, throwing up all he ate. There was terrible pain in |tho bowels, burning heat iu tho throat, heartburn, and racking headache. The patient was now taking a mixture every four hours, powders one after eaoh, meal to digest the food, oporatiiig pills one every night, and temperature pills two each night to Btop the cold sweats. If drugs could cure him at all, Richard had au idea that ho took onough to do it, But on the other hand pleurisy set in and the doctors foot ninety ounces of mutter fromhis right side, and then told him ho was siire to die, Fivo month moro rolled by, and there was another change of visiting physicians. The new one gave Wade a mixture whioh he said madt Aim taiGle lib a hifona tree, • At this crisis' Wados Scotch blood asserted itselt. Ho refused to stand any moro dosing, and told tho doctors that if he mußt die he could die as well without them as with them. 'By this time a cup of milk would turn sour on his stomach, and lie there for days. Our friend from Glasgow was like a wreck in a Bhoal, fast going to pieces. We will let him M'the rest of his experience in tho words in whioh he communicated it to the preßa Ho says."" Whon I was in this state a lady whom I had never'seen caino to the hospital and talked with mo. She proved to be an angel of mercy, for without her I should not now bo alive She told me . of a medicine called Mother Seigel's Curative Syrup,' and brought ine a bottlo next day. I started with it, without consulting the doctor, and in only a few days' time I was out of bed calling forham andeggs forbrtdfast. From that time, keeping on with Mother Seigel's great remody, I got well fast, and was soon able to leave the hospital and come homo to Glasgow, now feel as if a wob in another world and have no illness of any kind." The above facta aro calmly and impartially stated, and the reader may draw his own conclusion'', Wo deem it beat to use no names, although Mr Wade gave thom in his original deposition. His address is Ho. 2«, Stoboross Street, Glasgow, where letters will roach him. Edixob.