TEN MONTHS SUFFERING IN A HOSPITAL.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3550, 1 July 1890, Page 4

TEN MONTHS SUFFERING IN A HOSPITAL.

Thero.iß, an old that physi* oiaus are a class of men who pour 'drugs, of which Ihoy know little, into bodies which they know less This is both tnio aiid unruo at the same time. There aro good and poor lawyers, anil good and poor doctors. Tho troublo with these medical gentleman as a profession i? tint they aro clannish, and apt to bo' conceited, They don't liko to bo benton at then? own trade by outsiders who have never studied medicino. ' They therefore pay, by their frequent failures, the penalty of refusing instruc!!°n V, n i oss " 10 'eacher bears their own "Hall Mark."

An eminent physician—Dr BrownSequard, of Paris-statos"the fact accurately when he Bays: " The medical profession are so hound up in their self-coiitidenco and conceit that they alloiv tho diamond truths of science be picked up by persons en[tiroly outside their ranks!" Wegivo a most interesting incident, which lluslrates this important truth, Tho steamsnip " Concordia". of the Donaldson Line, sailed, from Glasgow lor Baltimore in 1887, having on board asa fireman amannamedßichard Wade of Glnsjow. He had boen a fireman for fourtoen years on various ships sailing from America, China and India, no had borne the hard and exhausting labour, and had been healthy and Btroig. On the trip wo now name he lime to, /eel weak and ill. His appetite failed and ho sutiered trom drowsiness, heartburn, a bad taste in the mouth, and costiveness and irregularity of the bowels. Sometimes whon at work ho had attacks of giddiness but snpposod it to bo caused by the heat of tho fire-roum. Quite often lie was sick and felt like, vomiting, and had some pain in the head, Later during the passage ho grew worse, and when the ship reached Halifax lie was placed iii the Victoria General Hospital, aud the ship sailed away, without him. The houso surgeon gave him some powders to stop the vomiting, and the next day tho visiting physician pave him a mixturn to take every four hours, that in two days Wade was so inuoh worao that the doctors stopped both tho powders and the mixturo, A month passed, tho poor faroman getting worso and worse. Then came another doctor, who was to bo visiting physician for the next fivo months. He gave other medicines but not much relief. Nearly all tha time Wade suffered groat torture; ho digested nothing, throwing up all hento. There was terrible pain in jtho' boivels, burning heat in the throat, heartburn, and racking headache. The patient was now taking a mixture every four hours, powders one after each meal to digest the food, operating pills one every night, and tomperature pills two each night to stop tho cold sweats. If drugs could cure him at all, Bichaid had an idea that ho took enough todo .it, But all the other hand pleurisy set in and t/ic «ocf<OT took ninety ounces of mutter fromhis right side, and then told him he was sure to die. Five month, moro rolled by, and there was another change of visiting physicians. The now ono gave Wade a mixture which ho said Iliad!, Aim tremble like a kuf oiia ree

At this crisis Wados Scotch blood asserted itself. Ho refused to stand any more dosing, and told tho 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 Ins stomach, and lie there for dajs. Our, friend from Glasgow was liko n wrock in a shoal, fast going to pieces, Wo will lothiin tell the rest of his experience in the words in which lie communicated it to tho press Ho says; "Whon I m in this stato a lady whom I had novorßeen came to tho hospital and talked with me. She proved to be an angel of mercy, for without her I should not now bo alivo Sho told mo of a mediolne called Mother Soigel's Curative Syrup,' aud brought me a bottle next day. I started with it, without consulting tho - doutor, and ro only a fen days' time I was out of bed calling for ham and eggs for breakfast. From that time, keeping on with Mother Soigel's great romedy, I got woll fast, and was soon able to leave tho 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 and impartially Btated, and the reader may draw his own conclusion, Wo deem it best to use no names, although Mr Wade gavo them in his original deposition, His addresß is No. 24J, Stobcross Street, Glasgow, where letters will roach himEditor,