TEN MONTHS SUFFERING IN A HOSPITAL.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3531, 2 July 1890, Page 4

TEN MONTHS SUFFERING IN A HOSPITAL.

• There is an old eyin} that physicians arp a class of men'who pour drugs, of which Ihey know little, into bodies of which they know less,. This is both true and unrue at the same time. There are good and poor lawyers,' and eood and poor doctors, Tho trouble with these medical gentlemen'as a profession-is (nut they are clannish, and ant to bo conceited, They don't like to be beaten at their, own trade by ontsidors who hivo . never studied medicine. They therefore payi by their frequent failures, the penalty of refusing instruc!!°n n n i e . Bß , the tt,achec bears their own ".flail Mark,"

An eminent physician—Br Brownaequaid, of Paris-states thb fact Qocumtolywhenhe aays: "The medioal profession are so bound up m their, sef-conhdence and conceit, that they allow tho diamond truths of scienco ,be picked up by pcreonn entirely outside thoir ranks." We i<ivb a most interesting incident, which Uusteites this important truth, The stcamsmp ."Concordia" 'of the Donaldson Lino, sailed from Glasgow tor Baltimore in 1887, having on board asa hreman a man named Eichard Wade of Qlnsjow. He had boon a n'renmn for fourteen years on various ships sailn* ,T1 A,neri(!,, • Chma and India He had borne the hard and oxlinusting labour,- and hud been healthy and Btro-R. On the trip we now namo he }w i for the first time to feel weak and ill. His appotite failed and ho Buttered from drowsiness, heartburn, a bad taste in the mouth, and costivoness and lrwilanty of the bowels. Sometimes when at work he had attacks of giddiness but supposed it to bo caused" by the heat, of tho firo-room. Quito often ho w«» sick and felt like vomiting, and had aomo pain in the head. Later during the passage ho grew worse, aiid when the. ship reached Halifax he was plac'eiin the Victoria General Hospital, and the ship sailed away without him. The house surgeon «avo him some powders tostopthovemitini;, and the next day the visiting physician rave him a 'mixture to tab every four hours, that in two days Wade was bo much wonse that thedoctors stopped both the powders and the mixture. A month passed, the poor hreman getting worse and worse. Then came another doctor, who was to bo visiting physician for the next Ovo months. He gave other medicines but not much relief. Nearly nil tha tune Wade suffered great torturo; he digested nothing, throwing iipnll heato, There was terrible pain injthe bowels, burning hoat in the throat; heartburn, and racking headache. The patient was now taking a mixture overy four hours, powders ono aftor each meal to digest the food, oporatins pills one every night, and temperature pills two each night to stop tho cold sweats. If drugs could cure him at all, Eichard had air idea that ho took. enough' to do it. But oh , 'he other hand pleurisy set iii and the took ninety „nnm of matter ■ ttomhs tight Me, and then told him ho was sure to die. Five month more i rolled by, and thero. was nnothor change of visiting physician. The now ono gave Wade a mixture which he ! said tnaiUu'ffl ( Wffl We lib a leaf om ree

At this crisis Wados Scotch blood asserted itself. Ho rofused to Btand anymore dosing, and told the doctors that if ho must die he could die as well without them as with thorn. By this time a cup of milk would turn sour on li'j stomach, and ho there for dajs, Our friend from Glasgow was like a wronk i" a shoal, fast going to pieces. Wo will let him tell the rest, of his experience in the words in which he communicated it to the press Hoßays. "When I tras in'thiß state a lady whom I had never seen camo to the hospital and talked with me. She proved to be an angol of mercy, for without her I should nut now bo alive She told me of a medicine called Mother Soigel's Curative Syrup,' and brought rne.a bottle next day. I started with it, without commltin? the doutor, and in only a few days' time Jims out 0/ bed calling forhm andeqgi for breakfast, From that time, keeping'.on with Mother Seigel's groat remedy, I got well fast, and was soon able to leave the hospital and come homo to Glasgow, now feel as if a was in another world xnd have no illness of any kind," The above facts are calmly and impartially stated, and the reader may draw hia own conclusion. We deem it best to use no names, althougti Mr Wade gave them in hia original deposition. His address is No. 244, Stuboross Street, Glasgow, where letters will roach him- , Editor.