TEN MONTHS SUFFERING IN A HOSPITAL.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3535, 13 June 1890, Page 4

TEN MONTHS SUFFERING IN A HOSPITAL.

•There is an old'Byin,' that physicians are a class of men-who pour drugs, of -which thoy know little, into bodies of which they know less This is both true and unrue at the' same '■- time. There ■' are gopd aud 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 concoited. They don't like to be beaten at their own trade, by outsiders who have never Btudiod inedioine, Thoy therefore pay, by their frequent failures, the penalty of refusing instructionuniess the teacher bears their own "Hull-Mark.""

An eminent physician—Dr BrownSequard, of. 'Paris-states the fact accurately when he'says: "Tho modicalprofession are so hound up in thoir self-confidence and conceit that, they allow the diamond truths" of science be picked up by persons entirely outside thoir ranks." We give a most interesting incident, which 11 ustrates this important truth. Tho steamsnip: "'.Concordia" of the Donaldson Lino, sailed from Glasgow for Baltimore in 1887, having on board asn firoman a man named Eichard Wade of Glasgow. Ho bad been a fireman for fourteen yoars on various ships sailing from America, China and India, He had borne tho hard and exhausting labour, 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 ho suUcred trom drowsiness, heartburn, a bad taste in tho mouth, and costivoneas and irrepularity of the bowels. Sometimes when at work he had attacks of giddiness but supposed-it to bo caused by the heat of the fire-room. Quite often he wansiok and felt like vomiting, and had. Borne pain in the head, Later during the passage ho grew worse, and when the ship reached Halifax lie was place; hi tho Victoria General Hospital, and theship sailed away without him. The house surgeon gave him soino powders to Btop the vomiting, and the next day the visiting physician five him a mixture to tako every four hours,, that in two days Wade was bo much worse that the doctors stopped both the powders and the mixture, A mouth passed, the poor fireman getting worso 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 j he digested nothing, throwing up nil he ate. There was terrible pain in |tho bowels, burning heat in the throat, TRTartburn, and racking headache, The patient was now taking a mixture overy four hours, powders one after each meal to digest the food, operating pills ono every night, and temperature pills two each night to stop' the cold sweats. IE 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 (Ac doctors took ninety miiiccs ofmatkf /t«/it's right side, and then told'him ho was sure to die. live month moro rolled by, and there was another change of visiting physicians, The new one gavo Wade a mixture which he said madi him trmbk like a leujf o'na m

At this crisis Wados Scotch blood asserted itselt. He rofused to stand any more dosing, and told the doctors that if ho must die he could die as well without them as with them. By this time a cup. of milk would turn soar on his stomach, and lie there for dajs. Our friend from Glasgow was like n wreck in a shoal, fast going to pieces, We will let him tell the rest of his experience in tho words in .which he communicated it to tho press He says; "When I was in this Btate a lady whom I had never seen came to the hospital and talked with mo. She proved to be an angel of mercy, for without her-1 should not now bo alive She told 1110 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 I was out of bed tailing forfom andeggi forlmdfast. From that time, keeping on with Mother Seigel's great remedy, I got well fast, and was soon ablo 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 uso no names, although Mr Wade gave them in his original deposition. His address is No. 244, Stoboross Street, Glasgow, where letters will reach himU t1 Editor.