TEN MONTHS SUFFERING IN A HOSPITAL.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3537, 16 June 1890, Page 4

TEN MONTHS SUFFERING IN A HOSPITAL.

Thevo is an old syiuvthat physicians are. 1 dnigs, 'of''.which-Ihey lihbW little, into ,bodies of .which'-they;, know leas'..'., : This is: both truo. ; 'diul- unrue ;nt the : same' time. Thero' are

good and' poor, lawyers, good an poor doctors.' Tho troublo with thes medical gentlemen" as a • profeaaioh i tint they.are clannish, and npt : to b conceited, Tlioy don't liko to be beatei »t their own trade by. outsiders wli have never studiod medicine. / The; therefore pay, -by '■ tlieir'\ freqiion 'ailurcs, the penalty-of refusing iustruu ion unicaa the' teacher bears their owi 'HallMark.V- "'.■',•■' " ':';' ' An- eminent physician—Dr Brown iequatd, ,oL Paris-states' the .fac ctiurutely when he says:'." Thai modi al profession aro so bound up in thei elf-conlidence and ; cbiiceit:.that the; How the diamond: .truths of: scumc e . picked up' by persons en ircly outside their ranks." We «iv ~ moat interesting incident,' whic! lusir.ites this important truth. The •steamsnip ." Oonoordia" of th lonaldsou Lino, sailed from Glasgo;. or Baltimore ii« 1887, having on boar: ,sa Oreman amannamedEichard Wad f Glasjow.: <Ho had been a firumai or. fourteen years on vanuus ships sail uj from •.America, China and'lndia le had borne the hard and exhaustm abour, and Md been healthy nh troiß. ' On tho trip .wo now name h legan for the first time to foel weak am 11, Ilia appetite failed and hu'sutiorci rom drowsiness, heartburiij'a bad tast n the mouth, _ aiid ebstiveuess am raularity of tlie bowels. Sometime rhen at work he had attacks of giddines wt supposed it to bo caused by th ioat of tho h're-room.. Quite often b rMs sick and felt like'vomiting and ha onto pain in the head. Later durin ho passage ho.greiv;worse, and whoi he'ship reached Halifax ho was place ii tho Victoria General Hospital* and th hip sailed' 'avl'ay : without hiraV Th iouso surgeon gavo him some powder o stop the vomiting, and the next da he visiting physician ravo him »inis urn to take e.very four hoiirsr that i; wo days Wade was so much worso tha hedootors stopped both the povrdoi ■ndtho mixture. A nioiith passed, th loorti'eman getting worse and worso. Then came another doctor, who'wa o bo visiting puysician for .tho nex toe .months',' Ho gavo othor medicinoi mt not much relief.. Nearly nil tha imo Wndo 'suffered great' torture; In ligested nothing, throwing up all he ate 'hero was terriblo pain in ithe bowels turning boat in the throat, heartburn ,nd racking headache. Tho patient wai iow takmij a niixturo ovory four, hours lowdera one after oaoh moal to digeai he food, operating pills one overy night, ,nd temperature pills two each night k top the cold sweats. If drugs conic ure; him at all, Eichard had an idea hat lie took enough to do it. But on ho othei' hand pleurisy sob in and tk odors took ninety ounces of maita rem lis right.shlc, and then told him o was sure to die. Five month uioro oiled by, and there was nnothor hnngo of visiting physicians. The ew ono gavo Wade a, mixture which ho aid »)i(i<£ him tremble like a hif oiia

At this crisis Waduß Scotch blood assorted itself, He refused to.stand anymore dosing, and told the doctors that if he must die ho could die as well without them as with thorn. By this time a cup of milk would turn sour on his Btomach, and hothore for dajs, Our friend from Glasgow was liko a wiwk in a shoal, fast going to pieces. We will let him tell the vest of his experience in the words in which lie communicated it to the press

He says, ."When I was in this State a lady whom I had noverseen caino to the hospital and talked with me. She proved to be an angel of mercy, for without her I should not now bo alivo sho told mo of a medicine called Mother Seigel's Curative, Syrup,' and brought mo a bottle next day. I started with it, without consulting tho doutor, and in only a few days' 'timhom out of bed cd'mijforfam muleggs forbnatfast. From that tim'o, keeping on wjth Mother Seigel's groat remedy, I got well fast, and was soon able,to leave the hospital and como home to Glasgo «, uowfeol us if a. was in another world and have no illness of any kind." - The abovo facts are calmly and impartially stated and tho reader may draw his o.wn conclusion, We deem it best to übo nq names, althougn Mr Wade gave them in bis original deposition, His address is No. 244, Stobbross Street, Ctlasgow, where letters will reach biuv ' Editor,