TEN MONTHS SUFFERING IN A HOSPITAL.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3541, 20 June 1890, Page 4

TEN MONTHS SUFFERING IN A HOSPITAL.

■ Thcro.is an .old that physicians are a .class -of/men Iwho -pour, drugs, '•: of .'.which they know little, into .bodies of whioh'..thoy. .'know, less : This is , both true- au'd/uttrue vat the. same time. : There, are good nud poor lawyers, arid (food and poor doctors. The troublo with these medical gentlemen iis a profession is that they are'olannish, and apt to,:be conceited. They don't like to bo beaten at their own trade by outsiders who hayo never studiod medioino. They therefore pay, 'by' their, frequent failures, the ponalty. of refusing instruction uniess the teacher boars their own "Hall Mark."

An eminent physician—Dr BrownScquatd, of Paris-states the.fact accurately whon lie says: " Tho medical profession are so ..bound up in their self-cbiitidonoo and eonceit that tlioy allow the diamond truths of science ho . picked up ■by persons entirely outside their ranks."; We give a most interesting incident, .which 11 ustrates this important truth.. .."■'' The steamsnip " Concordia" of the Donaldson Line, sailed- from Glasgow tor Baltimore in 1887, having, on board asa fireman !a man named Eichard Wade ,of Glasgow.. Ho had; been ,a fireman for fourteoh years on various Bhips saili in'. from. America,, China and ; India. Ho had Borne the hard and exhausting labour, and had boon healthy v and stwmjj.' On the trip we now uanio he began for the first time to feel weak and ill. His appetite failed and ho sullered from drowsinos?, heartburn, a bad taste in tho mouth; and costiveness and irregularity of the bowels. Sometimes when at work be had attacks of giddiness but supposed it to bo the lioat of the fire-room.. Quito often he was sick and felt like vomiting, and had some pain in the head. -Lator during tho passage ho grew worse, and when the ship reached Halifax he was placed Hi tho Victoria General Hospital, and the ship sailed away without him. • The house surgeon gays him some powders to stop the vomiting, and tho uoxt day tho visiting physician save him a mixture to tako every four hours, that in two days Wade was so inuoh worse that the doctors stopped both the powders and the mixture., A month passed, the pooriircman getting worso and worse. Then came another doctor, who was to bo visiting physioian for the next five months. He gave other medicines but not, niiich relief. Nearly all"tha time Wade suffered great torture j he digested nothing, throwing upall heato. There was terriblo pain in (tho bowels, burning heat in the throat, heartburn, and racking headache. The patient was now taking a mixture every four hours, powders one aftor eaoh meal to, digest the food, operating pills one ovcry night, and tomporaturo pills two each night to stop tho cold sweats, If drugs could cure him at all, Richard had ail: idea that ho took enough to do it. But oh the other hand pleurisy set in and the doetvrs took ninety-, ounces of mutter fnmhis right side, and thon told him ho was sure to die. Jive month more rolled by, and there was another change of. visiting physicians, .The new one gave Wade a mixture which ho said madt him tremble like, a lea/ ono ret . ■ '

At this crisis Wados Scotch blood asserted"iit'selr. Ho refused' to-stand any. mora dosing, and tojd tho doctors that if ho must die he could dio as well without them as with thorn, By this tiino a cup of milk would' turn Boar on his stomach, and lie there for dajs, Our friend from Glasgow was liko a wreck in a shoal, fast going .to pieces. Wo will let him toll tho rat of his experience in tho words in which he communicated it to tho Dress

He says. "Whon I waa in this state a lady whom I had never seon caino to tho hospital- and talked with me. She proved to be an angel of. mercy, for without her I should not now bo alivo She told '.me of a medicine called Mother Soigol's Curative Syrup,' mid brought me a bottle next day, I started with it, without consulting the doutdr, and in only a few days' time I was ml of bed caUiwjforhm aiideijys forkeaifast. Prom that time, keeping on with Mother Seigel's groat remedy, I got well fast, and was soon able to leave the hospital and come homo to Glasgow. ' ■ now feel as if a was in another world • and have no illness of any kind." .. Tho above facts aro calmly and impartially stated, and tho reader may draw his own conolusion, Wo deem it best to use no names', although Mr Wade gave them in hia original deposition. His address' is No. 244,' Stoboross Street, Glasgow, where letters will roach him' Ediiok.