TEN MONTHS SUFFERING IN A HOSPITAL.
There is an.old eyin j' that physicians' are. a class of imcn. wfm pour drugs,: of which they know little, into bodies of which they knov l eM This is both true and unrue at. the same . time, ;'/. There are good aiid poor lawyers, 'and good and poor doctors. The trouble with these medical gentlemen as a profession is that they are olauiiiali, and apt to be ooiiceited. Tlioy don't like to be beaten at their owii trade by outsiders who have never studied medicine. They therefore pay; by their frequent failures, the penalty Of refusing instruction unless the teacher bears their own "Ball Mark."
_An physician—Dr BrownBequard, of Paris—states the fact accurately when lie. says;. '.?> The medicajwfession aro so bound up mthoir self-con lldenco and conceit that they allow the, diamond, truths of Bcience be picked up. *by : persons entirely outside their ranks.": We give a most interesting' incident,. wbioh 11 uatratea this important truth. ■ Tho stoamsnip ".(Joncordia 1 ' of tho Donaldson Line, sailed from Glasgow for Baltimore in 1887, having on board asa firoinan a man named Richard Wade of Glasgow. He had been a fireman for fourteen years on various ships sailing from America, China., and. India. He had borne the hard and '.exhausting labour, and hud been healthy and stroig. On the trip we now liamo he began for tho first time to feel weak and ill. His appetito failed and ho suffered trorn drowsiness, heartburn, a bad taste in tho mouth, and costivoness and irregularity of tho bowels. Sometimes when at work lie had attacks.of giddiness but supposed it to bo. caused by ; tho heat of the fire-room'. Quito often lie was sick and felt like vomiting, and had Eomo pain in tho- head.' Later during the, passage ho grew worse, and when the ship roaphed Halifax lie was placed in tho Victoria General Hospital, and the ship sailed away without him," The house surgeon gave hiui some powders t? stop the vomiting, and 'the nest day the visiting physician »ave him a mixture to take every four hours, that in two days Wade was so much worse that thedoctors stopped both' the powders and the mixture. A month passed,' tho poor fireman getting worso and worso, Then came another doctor, who was to be visiting physician for the next five months, He gave othor medicines but not maoh relief. Nearly all tha time Wade suffered great torture j he digested nothing, throwing up all he ate. There wan terrible pain in (the bowels, burning heat in the throat, heartburn, and racking headache. Tho patient ivas now taking a inisturo every four hours, powders one after each meal to digest the food, operating pills one every night, and temperature pills two eaoli night to stop the cold sweats, If drugs could cure him at all, Diehard had an idea that lie took enough to do it. But on the other hand pleurisy sot in and the dodon took ninety ounces of matter from hit right side, and then told him ho was sure to die. Five month more rolled by, . and there wa3 another change of visiting physicians,,.' The new one gave Wade a mixture which he said minimi trnnbk lika ktfom ree
At this crisis \Yado a Scotch blood asserted itselt, Ho refused to stand anymore dosing, and told the doctors that if ho must die he could die as well without them as with them, By this time a cup of milk would turn sour on liia stomaoh, and lio there for daj s. ()ur, friend from Glasgow, was like a wrock ilia 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 I was in this state a lady whom I had never seen came to the hospital and talked with rue. Sho proved to be an angel of mertfy, for without her I should not now bo alive She told mo of a medicine called Mother Soigel's Curative Syrup,' and brought me a bottle next day.' I started with it, without consulting the doutor, and in only a feu, days' lime I was out of bed calling forlm andegys forbredfft. 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 aB if a was in another world and have no illnoss of any kind." The aboya facts are calmly and impartially stilted, and the reader may draw his own conclusion. We deem it best to nse no names, altbougtt Mr Wade gave them in his original deposition. His address is No. 244, Stoboross Street, Glasgow, where letters will roach himEditor.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3546, 26 June 1890, Page 4
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803TEN MONTHS SUFFERING IN A HOSPITAL. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3546, 26 June 1890, Page 4
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