TEN MONTHS SUFFERING IN A HOSPITAL.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3534, 12 June 1890, Page 4

TEN MONTHS SUFFERING IN A HOSPITAL.

There.is au old syinj that,physiowns are a olass of men Avho pour drugs, of which I hey know little,, into bod'es of which they , know less Tt'a is both true and unrue at tho same time. There ■ aro good and poor lawyers, and eood and poor doctors. Tho trouble with these medical gentlemen as a profession is thit they are clannish, and ept to bo , conceited, Thoy.diiu't liko to be beaten at their own tr.'de by ontsidors who have' never studied medicine. They therefore-, pay, by. then? frequont failures, the penalty of refusing instate-, lionuniess the teacher bearstheirown "Hall Mark." ■ ..

An eminent physician—Dr BrownSequatd, of Paris-states iho faot accurately when ho says; "The medical profession are so bound up in their self-contidence and conceit that they allow the diamond truths of science bo picked up by persons entirely outside their ranks." We nivo a most mtore3ting incdent, which 11 ustrates this important truth, Tho steamsnip "Concordia" of the Donaldson Line, Bailed from Glasgow for Baltimore in 1887, having on board aßa fireman a man named Richard Wade of Glasjow. He had.been'a fireman for fourteen years on various ships Baililia from America. China and India He had borne the hard and exhausting labour, and had been healthy and strain. On the trip we now name he began for thojrat time to feel weak and ill. His appetite failed and ho sulked Jrom drowVness, heartburn, a bad taßte in the mouth, and costiveness and inwularity. of the bowels. Sometimes when at work be had attacks uf giddiness but supposed it to bo caused" by the beat of the lire-room. Quito oiten he was sick and felt like vomiting, and had some pain in the he?.d. Later during the passage ho grew, worse, and when the ship reached Halifax ho was. place.'. hi tho Victoria General Hospital, and the ship sailed away without him. The house surgeon gave him Borne powders to stop the vomiting, and the next day tho visiting physician eave him a mixture to tako every four hours, that in two days Wade was so much worse that tho doctors stopped both the powders and the mixture. A mouth passed, tho poortireman getting worse and worse, Then came another doctor, who was to be visiting puytioian for the next 6ve months, Ho gave other medicines but not much relief. Nearly all tha time Wado suffered great torture; he digested nothing, throwing up all he ate. There was terrible pain in |the bowels, burning heat in 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, operating pills one every nvjht, and temperature pills two each night to stop the cold sweats. 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 t/ic doelon took ninety ounces of mutter /rem/lis right side, and then told him he was sure to die. Five month more rolled by, • and there was another change of visiting physicians, The new one gavo Wado a mixture which ho said maiLhim tremble like a leifono, r« At this crisis Wados Scotch blood asserted itselr. He refused to Btand any more dosing, and told tho doctors that if ho must die he could die bb well without them as with them. By this time a cup of milk would turn sour on his stomach, and he there for dajs, Our friend from Glasgow was like a wrock, in a shoal, fast going tn pieces, We will let him tell the rest of his experience in the words in whioh he communicated it to the Dress

He says, "Who"n I was in thia stato a lady whom I had never seen camo to the hospital and talked with me. Bho proved to bo an angel of mercy, for without' her I should not now bo alivo She told mo of a medioino called Mother Seigel'a Curative Syrup,' and brought ino a bottle next day. I started with it, without cmuultinp the doutor, and inonlij a few days' timilvm out of bed callingforkm amicus forbndfast. From that time, keeping on with Mother Sergei's great remedy, J got woll fast, and was soon able to leave the hospital and come home to Glasgow, now feel as if a was in another world and have no illness of any kind." The above facts are calmly and impartially stated, and the reader may draw his own conclusion* Wo deem it best to use no names, although Mr Wade gave them in hia original deposition. His address is No. 241, Stoboross Street, Glasgow, where letters will reach himiU - Kditoe.