TEN MONTHS SUFFERING IN A HOSPITAL.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3548, 28 June 1890, Page 4

TEN MONTHS SUFFERING IN A HOSPITAL.

, Thore is ' ; au;.old<sying :thafc' physic uians are a class of •men who pour, drugs, of which (hoy know little, into bodies; of whioh-they I 'know less; This is both true .aud* the. same';, time.'' 'There' are good and ; poor lawyers, and : eoo'd arid poor doctors. The: trouble with these medical gentlemen as a profession is that thoy are, clannish, and apt to fie conceited. -They don't like to bebeaten attheir own trade; by; bntsidors who have nevor studied lnedioino. Thoy therefore pay, ,by V.their •' frequwit failures, the penalty of refusing iriatruc-' !!n " n '°? a , tllo holier bears'their own "Hall Mark." . . '-. ' : •

An eminent physician-Dr Brownbequard,. of , Paris--states the' fact accurately when he says: "Themedical profession are so hound up in their self-confidence and ooriceit that : they allow the diamond truths 'of "science bo picked up .by persons' eh'tiroly outside,their ranks." We'give ;a most interesting incident, which U narrates, this important truth. •'' ! The eteamsnip " Concordia" of the Donaldson Lino, sailed, from, Glasgow for Baltimore in 188?, having oh board asaßftmon » man named Eichard Wado of Glasgow. He had been a fireman for fourteen years on various ships sailurg from America,, China and India. He had borne the hard and oxhausting .labour, and had beon - healthy and strong On the trip wenow name he began for the first time to feel weak and ill. His appetite failed and he Buttered from drowsiness, heartburn,' a bad taste in the mouth; and-costiveness and irregularity, of the bowels. Sometimes when at work he had attacks of giddiness but supposed it to bo caused by'the heat .of the h'ro-room. QuitV often he wasßickand felt.like vomiting, and had Bome.pain in the head. 'Late during the passage ho grew worse, and when the ship reached Halifax he was placed in too Victoria General Hospital, and the ship sailed away without him. The house surgeon gave him some'-powders' to stop the vomiting, and the next' day the visiting physician gave him a mixture to take every four hours, that in two days Wade wasso inuoh worse that thedootors stopped both the powders and the mixture; ; A month passed, the poor fireman getting worse and worse, Then came another; doctor, who was to be visiting physician for tho next five months. He gave other medioines but not much relief. Nearly all tha time Wade, suffered great torture; he digested nothing, throwing upalllieate. Thero was terrible pain in|the bowels, burning heat in the throat, heartburn, and racking headache.. Tho patient was now taking a mixturo. : overy four hours, powders one after each meal to digest tho food, operating-pills one every night, and tomperature pills two each night to stop the cold sweats. If drugs could cure him at all, Eichard had an idea that he took enough to do it. But oh the other hand pleurisy set in and th doctors took ninety ounces.', of matter fmhis right side, and then told him he was sure to die. Five month more rolled by, and thero -was another change of visiting physicians.' The new one gave Wade a mixture which he m&madihim tremble like a Urf ona rei ■.'■'• ' ■

At this crisis Wadoa Scotch blood asserted itself. Ho refused to stand anymore'dosing, and told the doctors that if ho iinust die he could die as well without" them as with thorn. By this too a cup of milk would turn soar on foa stomaoh, arid lie there for days, Our, friend from Glasgow was liko a wreok in a shoal, fast going to pieces. We will let him tell thereuof his experience in the words in which he' communicated it to the press 'He says. ".Whonl was in this state a lady whom I had never ae'en canio to the hospital and talked with be. She proved to be an angel uf mercy, fdr without her I should not now bo alive Sho told mo of a medicine called Mother Soigel's Curative Syrup,'-and brought me a bottle neit day. I started with it, without.consulting tbo doctor,and inonly a few days' timc'lwas out of bed callingforMm aMeggt iorhmifkl From that timeV keeping .on with Mother Seigel's great remedy, I got well faat,_and was soon able to.leave the hospital and como home to Glasgow, now feel as if a was in another world and have no illnessof any kind.", The above facts are calmly and impartially, stated, and' the reader may draw.his own conclusion. Wo deem it best to use no names, although.. Mr Wade gave them in his original deposition. His address is No; 244,. Stoboross.Street, Glasgow, where letters will reach; Mm- ',"■.' "'■'•.,'' Editor. :