TEN MONTHS SUFFERING IN A HOSPITAL.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3552, 3 July 1890, Page 4

TEN MONTHS SUFFERING IN A HOSPITAL.

Thetfl is an old a fin? that phyaioians are a class of men. who pour dings, of which ihey know little, into bodies, of which thoy. kno» less This is' birth true and unrue at the same time. Th9ro ate flrS P poordNhni The (rouble Vith these 1 ITi e ent ' en ' p n »» a profession is h,t they are clannish, and apt to be nested, Theydon-tlikotobobeaten at tho lr own trade;by.outsiders who mo never studied medicine. They failures, the penalty of refusing instrueSequard, o . Paris-states the' fact ccurately when ho says: "Themedi. lC^ 8 ?P bimild »P'in their sef-conhdence-and- conceit that thev Hlow the diamond truths of sc2 til/ ."•, °? . b T P 6ren "» entirely outside their ranks." We Kive ?,""' »t«?*W incident, which Hub rates this important truth. i'hosteamsnip-Concordia" of the Donaldson Line, sailed from' Glasgow 'or Baltimore m 1887, having on hoard m bremnn a nun named Richard Wade of Gkw. He had been a fireman lor fourtoon years on various ships sail-' from America. China and India He had borne the hard and exhausting abour, and had been healthy and began for the first time to feel weak and 11. Ihs appetite failed and ho suffered romdroamess, heartburn, a bad taste IS H m K mi «*ene«s and mm rlty of the bowels. Sometimes when at work bohad attacks of eiddinesa tT.il^T'™ 1 Quite often he w... sick and felj like vomitinst, and had fl n Pamil i thohead ' Later during he passage he grew worse, and when "preached Halifax ho was placed ithoywbriaQeneralHospiW.andthe ship sailed away without him. The house surgeon gave him some powders estop hevemitin?, and the next day hemingphysrcianfavehimamii. ure to take every four hours, that in two days Wade was so much worse that thodootors stopped both the powders and the mixture. A month passed, the poorhreman getting worao and worse. J-fien came anolher doctor, who was to be visiting physician for the next h'o months Ho gave other medicines '' n ° great torture ; ho Rested nothing, throwing npallheate. ihero wan torribla pain in |the bowels, heat ,n the throat, heartburn, and racking headache. The patient was now taking a mixturo overy four hours, powders one after each meal to digest the food, operating pills one everv night, and temperature pills two each night to stop the cold eweats, If druss could euro h.m at all, Eichard had an idea h the took enough to do it. But oh «ie other hand pleurisy aet i n and(; , c fetors tookninety mm 0 t mlkf l.™*lus right Me, and then told him ho-was sure to die, Five month moro ™«« »y, and thero was another change of vwking. physicians. The new one gave W„do a mixture which he lib a Mow

<U this crisis Wades Scotch blood' assorted Uselt. He refused to stand Mynioto dosing, a ,,d told iho doctors that if he must die he could die as well without them m with them, Bv this tone a cup of milk would turn sour on n? stomach, and lie there for daj s. (tor friend from Glasgow was like a wreck in a shoal, fast going to pieces. We will let him tell the test cf his oxperionoe in he words in which he communicated it to the Dross Ho says. "Whon I was in this Btate aladywhomlhadnoverspencamo to the hospital and talked with mo. Bho proved to be an angol of mercy, for without her I should not now bo alivo She told mo of a medicino called Mother Soigel's Curative' Syrup,' and raiglil mo a bottle next day. I started with it, withont cnneultinp tho doutor, and inonly a few days' Urn I was out of kd mllmyforkm andeggi fotbrmkjast. From that timo, keeping on with Mother Beigel'i> great remedy, I got well fost, and was soon able to leave the hospital and come homo to Glasgow, now feel as if a was in another world and havo no illness of any kind." The above facts are calmly and impartially stated, and tho reader may draw his own conclusion. Wo deem it best to use no names,' although Mr Wade'feave them in.his original deposition. His address is No. 244, Stoboross Street, Glasgow, whero letters will reach him' Kmtob,