TEN MONTHS SUFFERING IN A HOSPITAL.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3543, 23 June 1890, Page 4

TEN MONTHS SUFFERING IN A HOSPITAL.

There is ; an old's yia| jthafc cians -are ,s;clMj\'bf( ! meh 'who; po'u drugs, 'of which they know little interbodies of which they,,,, kuoi less |This is both true'' ( 'aiid ! ,'.un :ue .at.lhe same time. ;:Tlier6. i a'r poor.lawyers,.and'euod arii ibor 'doctors'.' tho trouble with' thea< ledical gentlemen as a profession i hat,they are clannish,.and apt'-to b oncpited, Theydon'tlite. to bebeatei t. their own trade by.' outsiders ,whi live nevor studied lnedieino, The; herefore pay, by their '■'■. fr'equan jiljiVes, the penalty of refusing iuatruu tod union the teacher bears their owi ■flallMark." ••■, in emiuont physician-Dr Brown lequard, of,'! (Parish-states! tho! fac ccuratoly whence BftyalJ "The nledi al profession are so huuhd up In thoi elf-contidenco and conceit that the, How the diamatid itriiths of scie'i* e picked j )>y ;'"" powoW • ;ep irely outside' their ranks,"' 'We givi most v intoro3ting incident,,, whicl lustrates this important truth., '■ •,, : The Btoainsnip.'" Concordia I,': 1 ,': of th )ona]dsoh Lino, sailed from Glasgow or Baltimore jn 1887,, having pnboati sa firelnim'aman named Eichard Wndi f Glasgow. yHo ,had-been t a liremai or fourteen'years' on various iihipsVail at from America, China and r India le had boiiw the hard' aud exhaustlnj ibour, and had been healthy am trong. On' tho trip'we how nanny h iegan for the first time to fee! weak am ll.i His appetito Miled'artd h'6*s'ullore rom;drowsine33i Heartburn,' a bad' tast n the moiithVand cbstiveness' 1 iini riwularity'.'of tlio bowels! ■' 'Soriietiaie rtien at work he had attacks of giddines rat supposed it to'be ; caused 'by ;! th teat 'ot the'h're-roprti. Quite often h ras sick and felt like .vomiting and hai omo pain in the head. '. Later durin he passage ho grew worse, and whei he ship, reached Halifax he was jilace, n tho Victoria' General Hospital, and th hip sailed awajr. without -hipi, Th louse surgeon\ guvo bini some powder o stop the vomiting, and the next da; he visiting physician favehini a mix uro to take hours, that ii wo days Wadew^sl'lo'inuch worso th'a hedpetors stopped both tho powder in'd the mixture.' A mouth passed, th wof fireman getting worsq and,worse. Then came another doctor, ~.who wa p be visiting phyßician for ; thonex ive months.' 'He gave other medicine >ut not mnch 1 relief, 'Nearly all (hi imp ; Wado-suffered great torture ;h ligested nothing, throwing up'all he ate ['hero was terrible pain in |tho boweh wrhing heat in tho throat* lieartbum md rack|ng''heada'clio. The patient wa iow takum a mixture every four hours lowders one after each, meal to diges he food, oporatinz pills one every uight ,nd temperature pills' two each night t< top tlie cold sweats.- If'drugs'couli ;uro him at all, Eichard had an ide hat lie took enough' to do it. But oi he other hattd pleurisy set in and f/i tocta foot ■ ninety mmi o/'matte i'wiv/iis;ri(//t( side, and then told hir 10 was Bure to. die. Five month mnr ollod'j by; nhd ; ih6ro !,i waa- .dtioth'e ihaiigoof visiting physicians'/ Th mw one gave Wadeia inixturelwtiicli h' laid'nial/tim ircmWe:• likt,nlt (form IW.' ; _ !.]:)";''";;,;■;',-..'.;■, ,:..,',{; At this crisis Wades Scotch bloot ssertod itselt. He refused to stant ny nniro dosing, and told the docto'n hat if ho must die he cnu|d die as wel rithout them, as with them., 'By .this imp a cup of milk; would turn Bour on ds'stomaoh, and ho y there for days. Oui riond from Glasgow., was like a;,\vroek n a shoal, faatgoing'tapieres. We will at hiin tell tho ren of his expenenco n the words in.wkich he communicated t to tho press ','■' ,'■•

He says; "Whon I was In this Btak a ludy whom I had never seen came to the hospital and'talked with mo. She proved to be an angol uf mercy, for without her I should not now bo alive j.Sho told me of a modioine called Mother Seigel's Curative Syrup,' ,und brought in'e a'bottle next day. I started with it, without consulting tho doctor, : mimonly a few days' tmlmabut of bed calling forham and eggs for breakfast. From that ; ttmo, keeping on with Mother Seigel's great remedy, I got well fast,.and wsoon able to leavo the hospital and come home to Glasgow. iiow' feel at if a was in anothor world and have no illness of any kind." V The abovo facta are calmly and im'partially stated, and tho reader may draw hia own. conclusion... We deem it best to use no«'nanies,- ajtbougtf ;Mr Wade gavo them in his brigirial'deposition. His address is No. 244, StoborostjStreot, Glasgow, where letters' will reach him>

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