TEN MONTHS SUFFERING IN A HOSPITAL.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3536, 14 June 1890, Page 4

TEN MONTHS SUFFERING IN A HOSPITAL.

There is, an old.s that phyaioiaiiisvaror aVclaM •;of tjiieh tyho; pour "dnigsj'v^r^'-whioti'lhoyf.knbw^littloi. iuto bodies of which'' tHby , knoyr, less This is both-true and unrue at the same time.- There-are good and poor lawyers; and good and poor ddotora. j The trouble with these medical gentlemen,as a profession is that they are, clannish; and apt to bo conceited, They don't like to bebeaten at their owii trade by'outsiders who have never studiod medioine. therefore. pay, ; by ,■ their \- frequent failures, the penalty'of refusing inatruutioii'uiuoss the teacher boars their own "Hall Mark.";; ~'".';"-.' : ;! , ;■■ An eminent physician—Dr BrownSequatd, of -Paris-states ; the v fact; accurately when ho Bays: ."Tho medical profession are so bound up in their self-confidence -and-;conceit''thai thoy allow the diamond truths '■■ . of science bo: picked up by persons enV, tiroly outside, their ranks." Wenive a, most interesting incident,' which. 1 llustrates this important-truth.'. Tho Bteamsilip "Concordia',' of: the Donaldson Lino, sailed from Glasgow for Baltimore m : 1887, having on board asafeoman ama'nnamedßichard Wade

of Glasgow.. He had been a fireman for fourteen yoara on 'various ships rail' in*; from "America, China , and India. He had borne tho hard and exhausting labour,, and had been healthy, and string, ■'. On the trip'we now name he began for the first time to feel weak and ill. His appetite failed and ho Buttered trom dWsineM, heartburn, a bad taste in the mouth, and costiveness Md iraularity 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. Quito often ho was sick and felt like'vomitine;, and had

some pain in. the head. Mter auruur the passage ho grew worse, and when the ship reached Halifax lie was placed | m tho Victoria General Hospital, and the > Bhip sailed awe; without him, The 1 house surgeon gave him some powders f to stop the vomiting, and tho next day i the visiting physician eavohim.a mixi tore to take evory four hours,: that in ' two days Wade wsb so much worse that ■ the doctors stopped both the powdors 1 andthemixtp, A month passed, tho . pooriiremas|etting worao and worse. . I 1 Then came another doctor, who was] 1 to be visiting physician for the next '• 6ve months. He gave other medicines J but not much relief.. Nearly all tha ) time Wade Buffered great, torture ;,ho ' digested nothing, throwing up all he ate. i There was terrible pain in ithe bowels, i burning heat in the throat, heartburn, ■nj ranlnnr. lm.iWlm 'Plio TuHnnf ivna

how taking a mixture every four hours, powders ono after each" meal to digest the food, operating pills one overynight, and temperature pills two each night to atop tho cold sweats* If drugs could cure him at all, Richard had an idea that he took enough to do it. But oh the other hand pleurisy set in mi the doctors took ninety omikcj 0/matter /row/it's right side, and then told him ho was sure to .die. Five month more rolled by, and there was another change of visiting physicians. The new one gave Wade a mixture which he said madthim freinole \lik a kuf.om \ ret ' ■"'■

' At this crisis Wadoß Scotch blood assorted itself. He refused to stand anymore 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 aour on his stomach, and lie there for dajs. Our friend from Glasgow was like a wrook, iii.a ahoal, fast going to pieces, We mil let him : tell the re3t of his experience iii the words in which he communicated it to the press He says; "When I was in tliis state a lady whom I had never seen came to the hospital and talked with me. . She proved to be an angol of mercy, for without her I should not now be alive She told me of a medicine called Mother Boigel's Curafivo Syrup,' and brought mo a bottle next day. I started with it, without, consulting tho doctor, and in only a.few days' lime I was out of bed calling fdrham and eygs for breakfast. From that time, keeping on with Mother Seigel's groat remedy, I got well fast, and was soon able to leave tho hospital and come homo to Glasgow now feel as if a was in another world and have no illneas of any kind," The above facts "are calmly and impartially stated, and tho reader may draw his own conclusion.' We deem it best to neo no names, although Mr Wade gave them in his original deptisition, His address is No. 244, Stoboross Street, Glasgow, where lotters will reach him' - gj jgj . Editor. '