TEN MONTHS SUFFERING IN A HOSPITAL.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3549, 30 June 1890, Page 4

TEN MONTHS SUFFERING IN A HOSPITAL.

Thero au old s yia< that phyailitm aro,olaisVofv men yfJio pout! drugs, of which they know little, into • boqieß of which ' they.' knorr: less : This., true: and V untueat the same time, There rave good and poor lawyers, aiid joodind poor doctors. Tho medical, gentleman as a-profession ; .'U tant they, 6iro fclanniahV and 'apfc ta bV don't like to bebeatehi we never studied. medioirio/^TJiey lion unjeas tho teacher bears their own "Hall Mark.'! i, , r .-r u

0 A n . pliyaician^Di?BroWfiSequard, of Paris-states, the fact aocurately-when he says ; ."The medial profession are bo*- bbund lip in their' self-contidonco and conceit that, they allow the diamond troths 5/ of: science 08.. pickedup by. j.persons tirely outside their ranks." •Wo ifivo a ;most interesting >wliich Uusfratea this important truth, Tl'o steamship " Concordia". : of the Donaldson Line, sailed/from Glasgow ipr Baltimore in 1887j, having on board asa tircnian aniapnarned Richard Wado of Glasgow. He had been a Hreniari* for fourteori years on various'ships sail-' , fl ™ America, Chinaand India He had borne >the Hard and exhausting labour, and had' been healthy- and strong On the trip p now name he •n^ 11 .tj-* ®F B Mf me to feel'weak aiid J"'. 8 : "Ppotito failed and hd siitfered trom drowsiness, heartburn, a'btid,taste [n the .mouth, and 'costiveneaa-and irreyulanty of the bowels, .Sometimes when at work he had attiicks of giddiness but supposed it 'to bo caused by the heat of the fire-roiim. Quite oftoii he who sick and feltfike vomiting, and had s ?P^?-:"P tHs*'limkd.,'vLater : 'durini;' the-passage ho grew worse, 'aiid wheii the -Bhip reached.Halifax he was placed in tho'-yictoria General Hospital, and the" ship sailed .away/without him... The hpuße surgeon "gave hihi 'some powders to stop, the vopiitine, aiid . theiiiext day the visiting' physician pave him 'a' mixtureto take every , four hours, 5 that'in two days Wade was so "much worse 'thiit fcuedoofcora stopped .both, the powders and the mixture.'*A moutli'pissed, tho poor foreman getting worse and worse, Then caino. another doctor, who was to be visiting physician for the next five months, • He gave other medicines but notmuoh relief. "Nearly all; tha time Wade suffered great torture j lie digested nothing, throwing up all-he ate. Thero was terrible pain in |tha.bowels, burning heat iu the throat,-, heartburn," and racking headaoke; The patient was now taking admixture every four. hours, powders, one after each nuialto digeit the food, operating piils one every riighti and temperature pills two each night to stop the cold sweats.. If- drugs could cure linn at all, Bichard had an idea that lie took 'enough'' to do it. Butoli tho other hand pleurisy, set in and the doctors' - took ninety ouiim. of matter UiomhU right side, find then told him ™ was sure to die. moiith more rolled .by, and there' was 'another change of visiting physicians. ; The new one gave Wade a mixture which lie mma<khim\tml)lc'lik;d Mom ! ree. . I

At this; crisis' Wados Scotch blood asserted itself. Ho refused to stand any more dosing, mid:yd. tli6 doctors that it he must die he could die as well without them as with them,-" By this tune a cup of milk would turn sour on Ira stomach, and lie there for dajs. Our friend from Glasgow was like a wreck in a shoal, fast going to pieces. /We will let Aiia, tell the rest of his "experience in the words in which he communicated it to the press Ho says. "When! was in this stato a lady whom I had nevereeen camo to the hospital and talked with-me, She proved to be an angel uf inorcy, for without her I Should not now. bo alive She told mo of a medicine called ftlutliot Curative Syrup,"'and' with it, without consulting the doutor, and inrnly a fcwiayi' time I was out of bed calling for ham and eggs for breakfast, From that time, : keeping ;• on with Mother Seigel's great remedy, I got well fasti ■ and was soon able to leave the hospital arid come hoiue to Glasgow, now feel; as if a was iti another world and have no illness of aiiy kind," r The above facts are calmly and impartially stilted, and the reader may draw hia own wmolußioii.'We deem it best to use no names, although' Mr Wade grfve them in his original deposi* tion, His address is No; 2ii, Stob*' oross. Street, Glasgow, . where letters will reach him- • Edixob.