TEN MONTHS SUFFERING IN A HOSPITAL.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3539, 18 June 1890, Page 4

TEN MONTHS SUFFERING IN A HOSPITAL.

There is an old s that physicians are a okas of men who pour dnigs, of which they know little, into bodies of which thoy know Isbs This is both true and unrue at the same tiriio. Thero are good and poor lawyers, and eood and pour doctors. r The trouble with these medical/gentlemen as a profession is that thoy are clannish, and'apt to bo conceited. They don't like to be beaten at their own trade by .on'tsidors who havo never studiod medicine. 'They therefore pay, by their frequent failures, the penalty of refusing iußtruolion uniess 'tho teacher boars their own "Hall Mark."'

An cminont physician—Dr BrownSequard,' of Paris-states' the fact accurately when he says: "Tho medical profession are so bound up in their self-contidenco and conceit that they allow the diamond truths of science bo ; picked up by persons entirely outside thoir ranks,': We give a 'most interesting incident,' which 11 ustrates this important truth. The Bteamsnip " Concordia"' nf tho Donaldson Lino.sailed.from Glasgow for Baltimore in 1887, having on board asa fireman a man named Richard Wade of Glaß-iow. He had boen a lireman for fourteen years on various ships' sailin* from America. China and India He had borne the hard and exhausting labouv, and had been healthy and strong. On the trip we now namo'he began for,the first time to feel wadt and ill.'. Eis appetite failed and ho sutiered from drowsiness, heartburn, a bad taste in the mouth, and costiveness and irrcpularity of the bowels. Sometimes when at work behad.attacksof giddiness but'supposed it to bo caused by the heat of tho fire-room, Quite often ho wiib : sick and felt like vomiting, and had some pain in the head. Later during the'passage ho grew worse, and, when the ship reached Halifax he was placed m tho Victoria General Hospital, and the ahip sailed away without him, The hoUBB surgeon gave him some powders to stop the vomitinK, and the uext day the visiting physician pave him a mixture to take every four hours, that in two days Wade was bo much worse that the doctors stopped both the powdersand the mixture. A month passed,' the poor h>eman getting worso and worse, Then oame ( another 'doctor, who was to be visiting piiyaioian for the next five months, Ho gave other medicines but not maoh.relief. Nearly all tha time Wado suffered great torture j he digested nothing, throwing up all he ate. There was terrible pain in'itho bowels, burning heat in. the throat, heartburn, and racking headache, The patient was now taking a mixture overy four hours, powders one after each mcaUo digest the food, operating pills one every night, and temperature pills two each night to stop the cold Bivoats. •' If drugs could cure him at all, Eiohard had an idea that ho took enough to do it, But on the other hand pleurisy set in and the doctors took ninety minces o/ winder fromhis right side, arid then told him he was sure to .die. ; Five month more rolled by, ■ and thero was another change of visiting . physicians, The new one gave Wade a mixture which he said mi. /u'nt taiWe like a lei/ona ret . ' ' At this crisis Wadus Scotch blood assnrtod itself. He-refused to stand any tuoro dosing, and told the doctors that if he must die he could die as well without them as with them. By this time a cup of milk would turn sour on liia Btomaoh, and ho there for da)s. Our friend from Glasgow was like a wreck in a shoal, fast going to pieces, We will let him toll tho rest of his experience in the words in which he communicated it to tho Dress- ■

He says, "WhenT ivas iri this 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 bo alive She told mo qf a'.medicine callad Mother Seigel's Curative Syrup,' mid brought ino a bottle next day. I started witli it, without consultitip the doutor, and in onlyafew days' timehks onto/ bed callingforham andeggs forbreakfast. 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 homo to Glasgoiv. now feel as if a was in another world and have no ilJnoßsof any kind.-", • • The above! facts are calmly and impartially stated, and the reader 'may draw his own conclusion. We deem jt best to H6e no naraeß, although "Mr Wade gave them in his original ;depnsition, His addresa" b "No." 24"4, ; ' Stohoross Street, Glasgow,' where letters will reach hinv. "• ' ' . Editor,.