TEN MONTHS SUFFERING IN A HOSPITAL.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3542, 21 June 1890, Page 4

TEN MONTHS SUFFERING IN A HOSPITAL.

i There is: an old s,yin!( .that phyai-, BiMis- Bre' ! a*clasj drugs, of which Ihey know little, into bodies of which, they: less This, is/,both, true ,and unrue at .tile', saiiic,'jimp', Thsro' 'ta (jood aud poor' andl good'and poor'doctors,. The' trouble; with-these medical gentlemen. as i a profession is thit'they are clannish, and apt to bo donceited, Theydiin'tliko to bebedten at'their own trade ..by ; ontsidors who havo nevor studied;.medicine, v They therefore pay, by their frequnnt failures, the penalty of refusing instruction iimoßß the teacher bears their own Hall Mark."

i'An eminent Brown* 1 S.equard, of Paris—states" the fact ' accurately when he lays;. "The inedi* 1 cal pfpfession- are'so their 1 self-contidonc'e arid' conceit'' that ! they 1 allow .-.the diamond truths of scieiico ' up byporsons. en*,. 1 tirely outside/ tliofrj rtitiks.'! M'e give ! a,most lptbitatmgi(incident/vWbilh. J lluslrates this important truth. 1 i --Th' steamsnip " UoncoMia" of the Donaldson' Tiino,i sailed from Glasgow 1 fur Baltimore in 1887/ having on board asa fireman a mnn named Richard Wade of GlnsjoiiM He .had .been ,al- fireman ; for fourteon years on various Bliips rail* •fesiflto 'Ohi^a; -aiid (India/ He had borne tho hard aud exhausting labour; and had .been healthy and atrd'is. On the trip wo now. haihe'lie pejjan for tho first time to feel weak and ill. His appetite failed and ho suffered jrom drowsiness, heartburn,bad taste in tho!. mouth.' 'ahd > cdstivenpss" and irregularity of the' bowels, Sometimes |vhen at work he had "attacks of giddiness hut supposed J it to Jw caused by jhe heat of the fire-roo.hi! .'(Juite ,bftdnhe \m sick feltJikfV6mitins, J and had some pain'in the, liead. ; Later durin? the passage ho grew worse,' and when tho ship. teached Halifax ho was placed in thojiotoria.General Hospital, and the shi]) sailed/away without him.,. The house surgeon gave' him soma powders to Btop the voiiaititjgitarid, tho tioxt* day the.-visiting physibian ?aye him a toixturn toitake every'fbur hours,' that in two days Wade was so that i tho doctors stopped;'both tho powders' an'dthe mixture,,. A mouth passed, tho. poor li'eman,getting worse and worse. "• Then came antither.^d.ootcir,, ivlio was 1 to be visitirig pliyefcmh for tlid noxi | ; five months,, He gavo other .medioines but nob much relief.; Nearly, all tha - 1 time Wade suffered' great torture ; ; he : ! digested nothing, jthrawiilg iipaU ho ate. i I There waH terrible pain ;in itho i bowels, 1 burning heat in the throat, heartburn, ' and rackingheadaolie,The.patient was ' now taking a mixture every four, hqurs, powders' one,after,each' meal to; digest I the food/operating pills one every night, '■ arid temperature pills two each night to • stop the ,coM sweats,r'.-lf drugs.could t cure him, ; at allii Richard had an idea i that he: took enough'to do it- But oti i the other hand, pleurisy set in and I doctors took ninety ounces of matter | fripnhir,right and then told him ! M was sure to die, Five month more 1 rolled by, and there was anothor change of visiting' physicidnß.'' 1 The ■ new one gave Wade a he J said madt, him drekble 1 like., a fleif oM.

• At thi& [firtaisl; J Wddq # Soo.tch .blood asserted itself. So refused to stand any more dosing,; and told. the doctors that if ho must die ho could die as well without them as with .them, ; Bj .this time a cup of milk would turn aour on hia stomach, and he tliero for da) b. Our friend from .(ilasstow was like ivmck in a shoal, fast going to pieces, We will let him: tejl. the rest of, his csperieuce iu'tlio Words in which lie communicated it tothe;prefs: ,•

• > He says, "Whon I was In this state a lady whom X had never seen caifie to tlio hospital and talked with me. She proved to be an angel iif morcy, for without her I should not now bo alive Sho told mo of a medicine callod Mother Soigel's Curative Syrup,' aud Ipjight bottje next,day. I started, with it, without ciinsultiiif the dqufcr,; and,t»«H|{|'a lied cidlinyforhm aiiiegp fttbmkfasl, From that 'time,' keeping :o» with' Mother Seigel'a great' remedy; J got well fast, and was soon able to leave the hospital and come hometo GJasgo#, - now feel as if a waß in another world and have no illness of any kind." , .The abovo facts are calmly and impartially stated, and the reader may draw his own conclusion. Wo deem it best to use uo.ramcß, ...although Mr Wade gave ojigihal deposition, His 'address' is "Nop 244,' StoV aross Streot, Glasgow, wliero letters will reach hinv ' ,;; 1 ' ...... . Editor,