TEN MONTHS SUFFERING IN A HOSPITAL.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3545, 25 June 1890, Page 4

TEN MONTHS SUFFERING IN A HOSPITAL.

Theft is an old that, physi* cians i»re a. class of' men'who pour drugs, of which (hey know little, into bodies of whioh they know less This is both true aud 'utirue at the same time, 1 There are good and poor lawyers, and good and poor doctors. Tho trouble with these medical gentlemen as a profession is that they are clannish, and apt to be conceited. They don't like to be beaten at their owu trade by ontsidors who havo never studied medicine. They therefore pay, by their - frequent failures, the penalty of rofusing inatrnc!!°n »"w 3a " 1(J teacher bears their own "Hall Mark,"

An- eminent physician—Dr- BrownBequard, of Paris—states the fact accurately when he Bays; " The medicaj profession are so bound up in their se f-conhdence and conceit that they allow the diamond truths of'science be picked up by persons entiroly outside thoir ranks* 1 ' We tjivo a most interesting incident, which Uustrates this important truth. Tho steamsmp " Concordia" of tho Donaldson Line, sailed' from Glasgow tor Baltimore in 1887, having on board asa fireman amannamedKichard Wade of Glasgow. Ho had been a iireman for fourteen years on various ships 6;iilfrem America, China and India. Ho had" borne the hard and exhiiustmg labour, and had been healthy and strong. On the trip we now name he began for the first time to feel we.'k and ill. His appetite failed and ho sutlerid jrom drowsiness, heartburn, a bad taste in the mouth, and costiveness and irregularity of the.bowels. Sometimes when at work be had attacks of giddiness but supposed it- tQ bo caused by the heat of the fire-room, Quite often he was sick and felt like vomiting, and had Bonie pain in tho liead. Later during tho passage he grew toco, and when the ship reached Halifax he was placed 10 X lo^or ' a General Hospital, and the ship eailed away without liim. The house surgeon gavo him some powders to stop the vomiting, and the next day the visiting physician pave him a mixture to take every four hours, that in two days Wafa was so much worse that the doctors snipped-, both the powders and the \jA month passed, the poor fireman getting worse and worse. Then came another 'doctor, who.was to bo visiting physician- for tho next five months, Ho gave other medicines but. not muoh relief. Nearly all tha time Wade suffered great torture ; he digested nothing, throwing up all ho ate. Therp was terrible pain inlthe bowelß, burning heat in tho throat, heartburn, and raoking headache. The patient was now taking a mixture every four hours, powders one after eaoh meal to digest the food, operating pills one every night, and temperature pills two each night to stop tho cold sweats. If drugs could cure him at all, Eichard had an idea that lie, took enough to do it. But oh the other hand pleurisy set in and the took ninety ounces of matter from Ms right side, and then told him he was sure to dio. Five month moro rolled by, pnd there was another ohange of visiting physicians. The new one gave. Wade a mixture which ho said made him- tremble like a lea/ ona rte

At this_ crisis Wadoa Scotch blood asserted itselt, Ho refused to stand any mora dosing, and told tho doctors that if ho must die he could die as well without'them as with theip. By this time a oup of milk would turn sour on h's stomach, and lie there for days, Our friend from Glasgow was like a wreck in a shoal, fast going to pieces. We will let him tell the rest of his experience in the words in which he communicated it to the press

He says; "When X was in this state a lady whom I had never seen came to the hospital and talked with me. She proved to be an angel of mercy, for without her I should not now bo alive She told me of a medioine callod Mother Seigel's Curative Syrup,' aud brought me a bottle next day, I started with it, without consulting the doctor, and in only a few days' time Ims out of bed caUinyforhm and eggs for breakfast. 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 home to Glasgow, now feel as if a was in another world and have no illness of any kind," The above facts are calmly end impartially stated, and the reader may draw his oivn conclusion,' We deem it best to use no names, although Mr Wade gave them in his original deposition. His address is No. 244, Stoboross Street, Glasgow, \yherp letters will reaoh himEditor,