TEN MONTHS SUFFERING IN A HOSPITAL.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3547, 27 June 1890, Page 4

TEN MONTHS SUFFERING IN A HOSPITAL.

■ There is an old that phjsidans are a class of men who pour dWi of which they know; little, into bodies .of- .whiohj- they know, less This .is ' both,true.-, aiid ~unrue at the same' time.' There, are good and poor lawyers,, and cood and poor doctors;; The trouble with' these medical gentlemen as a, profession; is tlwt, they are clannish, and apt to be conceitod. They don't liko,to be beaten at:their own trade by. ontsidors who ! havo never, studied medicine. - They thoreforo pay, by their , . frequent tho penalty of rcfusinginstruc-, tiort uniess tho teacher bears their own "Hall Mark.", : ;

•_ 4 n cm inent physician—Dr BrownScquard,;:. of Pnris—Btatea f- the fact accurately when he says" The medical profession aroso hound up lntheir self-contidenco and conceit that they allow tho diamond truths of science be picked up by persons entirely outside their, ranks:" We give jv most interesting incident, which llUßfrates this important truth..' > .. The steainsnip "Concordia" of:the Donaldson Line, sailed from Glasgow for Baltimore.in 1887, having on board asii fireman a man named Richard Wado of Glasgow, He had been atirernah for fourteon years' on yariuui Bhips sailin? from' America, China arid India.' He had borne the hard aud exhausting labour, and had been healthy : and strong. On the trip, we now name he began for the first time to feel weak and ill' His appetite failed and ho suttered from drowsiness, heartburn, a bad taste in the mouth. 1 and costiveness and irregularity of the bowels. Sometimes when at work lie had attacks of eiddiness but supposed it, to. bo caused by the lieat of the fire-room. Quite often ho was sick and felt like vomiting, and had Boino pain in the head.- Later during the passage ho grew worse, aiid when the ship reached Halifax he was placed ill tho Victoria General Hospital, and the ship sailed away, without him. The house surgeon pivo him some powders to stop tile vemitiiiir, and the next day the visiting physician rave him a mixture to takeovory four hours,- that in two days Wado was so much worse that tho doctors stopped both the powders and the mixture. A mouth passed, the poor fireman getting worse and worse. Then cauie another doctor, who was to be visiting piiysioian for the noxt five months. He gave other medicines but not much relief. Nearly. all tha time Wado suffered great torture ; ho digested nothing, throwing up all he ate. There was terrible pain in ithe-bowels, burning heat in the throat, heartburn, and racking headache. The patient was now taking ft mixture every four hours, powders one after each meal to digest the food, operating pills one every night, and temperature pills two eaoh night to stop tho cold Bwoats, If drugs could cure him at all, Kiohard had an idea that ho took enough to do it. But on the other hand pleurisy set in and the doctors took ■ nineli/ ounces of indtff fromhis fight side, and then told him ho was sure to die. Five month more rolled by, and there was another change of visiting physicians. The new one gave Wade a mixture which he said madt. him tremble Itte a letf oik ree

At this crisis Wades Scotch blood asserted its'elt. Ho refused to stand any muro dosing, and tuld tko doctors that if ho must die he could die as well without them as with thep. By this time a cup of tiiilk would turn sour on his stomach, and liothero for dajs. Our friend from Glasgow was like a wrook in a-shoal, fast going to pieoea, We will lot him tell t.ho rest of his axperieuce in tho words,in which he communicated it to the press . Ho says; '.'Whon I was In this : state a lady whom I had hover seon camo to tho hospital and talked with mo. Sho provod to be an angeluf mercy, for without her I should not now bo alive Sho told me of a. medicine called Mother Seigel'a Curative Syrup,' aud brought me a battle next day, I started with it, without consultin? tho doctor, and in only a few. days' time I was out 0/ bed calling for ham 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 nndcomb home to Glasgow,now feel as if a was in another world and have no illness of any kind." , The above facts are cjilmly and impartially stated, and tho reader may draw his own conclusion. We deem it host to use rio names, although Mr Wade gave them in his original deposition. His address is No. 244, Stoboross Street, Glasgow, where letters will reach him. : ' Editor.