TEN MONTHS SUFFERING IN A HOSPITAL.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3540, 19 June 1890, Page 4

TEN MONTHS SUFFERING IN A HOSPITAL.

There is ' an old s yia? : that' phyaicians are a class' of men who pour dings, of which they know little, into bodies of which thoy know less This is .both true' and' un-' rue at the same time,- There are good 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'be conceited. They don't life to be beaten at their own trade by onteidors who have. nevor studiod medicine.. They therefore pay, by their frequent failures, the penalty of refusing instruction unless the teacher bears their own "HallMark,"

An eminent physician—Dr BrownSequard, of Paris-states the fact accurately when he Bays: " The medical profession 'are so bound up in their self-confidence and oonceit- that they allow the diamond truths of science bo picked up by persons entirely outside their ranks." We give a most interesting incident, which 11 ustrates this important truth. The steaimmjp " Concordia" of the Donaldson Line, sailed. from Glasgow for Baltimore in 1887, having on board asa fireman a man named Richard Wade of Glasgow. He. had been a tireman for fourteen years on various ships sailing from America, Ohina and India. He had homo the 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 suffered |rom drowsiness, heartburn, a bad taste in the mouth.-and costiveness and irregularity of the bowels. Sometimes when at work he had attacks of giddiness but supposed it to be caused'.by the heat _of the lire-room. Quite often ho was sick and felt like vomiting, and had some pain in.tho head.' Later during the passage ho. grew, worse, and when the Bhip reached Halifax ho was placed in tho Victoria" Goneral Hospital, and the ship sailed away without him v The house surgeon gavo him some powders to stop the vomiting, and the next day the visiting physician gave him b mixture to take every four hours, that in two days Wade was so much worse that the doctors stopped both tho powders and the mixture. A month passed, the poor fireman getting worso and worso. 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 V7ado suffered great .torture ; ho digested nothing, throwing 3b all he ate. There was terrible pain in |tho bowels, burning heat in the throat, heartburn, and raoking headache. The patient was now taking n mixture every four hours, powders one after each meal to digest the food, operating pills one every night, and temperature pills two each night to stop the cold sweats, If drugs could cure him at all, Eichard had an idea that he took enough to do it. But oh the other hand pleurisy set in and/k doctors took ninety ounces of matter fromhis right side, and then told him ho was Buro to die. Five month moro rolled by, and there was another change of visiting physicians. The now one gave Wade a mixture which he said tnadt Aim tumble like a leaf ona m .

At this crisis Wados'Scotch blood asserted itselt. Ho refused to stand any moro dosing, and told tho doctors that if ho must, die he could die as well without thorn as with them. By this tune a cup of milk would turn sour on his stomach, and Ho there for dajs, Our friend from Glasgow was like a wreck in a shoal, fast going to pieces, We will let him tell there3tof Mb experience in the words in which he communicated it to the nrcss

Ho says; '.'When I was In thk state a lady whom I had never seen camo to tho hospital and talked with mo. She proved to be an angel uf mercy, for without her I should not now bo alive She told mo 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 wily o few days' time I'ma out of bed calling forhm mukggsforkeahfast. From that time,. keeping on with Mother Seigel's great remedy, I got woll 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." The above facts are calmly and impartially stated, and the reader may draw his own conclusion. We deem it best to usono names, although Mr Wade gave theni in bis original deposition. His address is No. 244, Stoboross Street, Glasgow, where letters' will reach him' Editor.