TEN MONTHS SUFFERING IN A HOSPITAL.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3538, 17 June 1890, Page 4

TEN MONTHS SUFFERING IN A HOSPITAL .

. Thpro is an, old s .j that, physicians' aro" a olass of' "men •' wlib pour idrugs,' of whicli they know little, ■into bodies of whioh ":"tlioy krioTf less,. This,is both' -true and :,unrue at the same 'time.* VThero *are good and poor lawyers, andguod aiid poor doctors.: The troublq with these medical gentlemen fas a -profession-'is tint they are claunish, and apt to bo conceited, : They don't like to be beaten at. their own'trado by outsiders who liavo'never studied incdicino, They therefore, pay, hy : their frequent failures, the penalty of refusing instruction unie3s the teacher bears theic own "Hall Mark.", - ;

An eminent physician—Dr Brown- \ Sequard, of : Paris—states . the fact , accurately when-ho says; "Tho medical profession aro so bound up in their , self-contidenc'e and conceit that they allow the diamond truths of scienco bo; picked up by persons' en- , tlrely'outside their ranks.'' 'We give a most infcoro3tiiig incident, which lluslrates this important truth, The steamsnip " Concordia"- of tho Donaldson Line, sailed' from Glasgow for Baltimore in 1887, having on board ' nsa firenian a man named Richard Wado of Glasgow. He had been a iirenmn for' fourteen yoars on various ships sailiu» from America, Chhia and India. He had bonio the hard, and exhausting labour, and had been healthy and stroig. On' the trip wo now name he began: for the first time to feel weak and ill, Hiß appetite failed and ho suited trom drowsiness, heartburn, abadtasto in the mouth. - and coativeneas and irregularity of-the bowels. Sometimes when at work lie had attacks of giddiness but supposed it to bp caused by the boat of the lire-room. Quito often he mn sick and felt like vomiting, and had some pain, in the head, Later during' the passage ho grow worse, aiid when tho ship.reached Halifax he was placod in tho Victoria General Hospital, and the ship sailed away without him, The house surgeon gavo him some powders to'stop the vomiting, and the next day the visiting physician ravo him a mixture to take overy four hours, that in two days Wade was so much worse that the doctors stopped both the powdors and the mixture.'"' A month passed, tho poor tinman getting worso and worse. Then came another doctor, who was to bo visiting physician for tho next five months. He gave other medicines but not much relief. '. Nearly all tha time Wado suffered great torturo; lie digested nothing, throwing up all hoato. Thero was terriblo pain in.[tho bowels, burning heat in tho throat, heartburn, and racking headache. The patient was now taking a mixture every four hours, powders one after oacli meal to digest tho food, operating pills one every night, aud temperature pills two each night .to stop the cold sweats, If drugs could cure him at all, Richard had an idea that he took onotigh to do it. But on the other hand pleurisy set in and the doctors- took ninety ounces of miter (romhis right side, and then told him ho was sure to die. Five month more rolled by, and there' was another chango of visiting physicians! The new ono gave Wade a mixture which he said nincfe Aim i-remMc lik a lei/ona ne At this crisis Wado s Scotch blood asserted itselt., Ho refused to Stand any more dosing, and told tho doctors that if he must die ho could die as well without them as With thorn". By this lime a cup of milk would turn Bour on his stomach, and he there for days, Our friend from Glasgow was like a wrack ina shoal, fast going to pieces. We will let him tell the re3i of his experience in the words in which he communicated it to the press He says, " Wlion I wan in this state a lady whom I had nevorseencamo to the hospital and talked with me. Sho ; proved to bo aii angel of 'mercy', for i without her I should not now bo alivo ' She told me of a medicine called

Mother Soigel'B Curative Syrup,' aud brought me a bottlo next day/ I started with it, without consulting the duutor, and in only a few days' time I wis out of kd mlUnyforlimn mulcggs for breakfast. From that time, keeping on, with Mother Seigel's great remedy, I got well 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." Tho above facts are calmly and impartially .stated, and the reader may draw his own conclusion, We deem it best to uso uo names, although Mr Wade gave them in his original deposition, His address is No. 214, Stoboross Street,' Glasgow, where lotters will reach himEditor. -