TEN MONTHS SUFFERING IN A HOSPITAL.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3571, 26 July 1890, Page 4

TEN MONTHS SUFFERING IN A HOSPITAL.

There is mi old s yin;; that phjßiolaaß aro a class of men who pour drugs, of which (hoy know little, into bodies of which thoy know Icbs This is both true and mime nt the same .time. There are good and poor lawyers, and poor doctors. The trouble with these medical gentlemen kb a profession is that they are clannish, and apt to be conceited.' Thoy don't like to be beaten at their own trade by ontsidors who have never studiod medicine Thoytherefore pay,, by their freqiient failures, tho penalty of rofusing instrnetion unless -the teacher bears their own "Hall Mark." An eminent physician—Dr. BrownSequard, of Paris-states the iact' accurately when he says: J'.The medical profession are so.bound up in their., self-conh'donco and conceit that they;. allow tho diamond truths -of science be picked up by persons -chv tiroly outside" .their ranks.'' Waive a most mtorosting incident, which Uustrates this important truth.: ,•; r , The steamsnip" Ooncoidia" :sf _thd Donaldson Lino, sailed from Glasgow for Baltimore in 1887, having on board nsa fireman amannamedEichard Wade of Glasgow. He had boon a iireman for fourteen years on various ships sailing from America, China and India, He had borne the hard aud exhausting labour, and:had boon healthy and strong. On the trip we now. name he began for tho first time to feel weak and ill. His appetito failed and ho euliered.'. trom drowsiness, heartburn, a bad taste m tho mouth, and co3tiveness and irregularity of tho bowels.. Sometimes when at work bo had attacks of giddiness, but supposed it to bo caused by the' heat of the firo-room. Quito oftoii he - was sickand felt like voiniting, and had some pain in the head, Late during the passage ho grew worse, and when tho ship reached Halifax he was placed in the Victoria General Hospital, and the ship sailed away without.'him. The: house surgeon gave him some powders, to stop tho vomiting, and the next day tho visiting physician gave him a mixture to take every four hours, that in two days Wade waß so much worse that the doctors stopped both tho powdors and the mixture. A month passed, tho poor iireman getting worse and worse. Then came another'doctor, wbewas to bo visiting physician for thenoxt fivo months. He gave other medioines but not much relief. Nearly all the time ffado suffered great torture; ha digested nothing, throwing up all he ate. There ww terrible pain in|the bowels, burning heat in the throat, heartburn, and racking headache. The patient was now taking a mixta every four houre, powders ene after each moal to digest the food, operating pills one every uight, and temperature pills two eaoh night to stop tho cold Bwoats. If drugs could cure him at all, Eioharcl had an idoa that ho took enough to do it. But on tho other hand pleurisy set in and the doctors took ninety ounces of matter fromhis right side, and then told him ho was sure to die. live month more rolled by, and there was another change of visiting physicians, The now one gave Wnde a mixture which he. said«i(i(fe/»'ffl 'tremble like a ktfom TO

At this crisis Wados Scotch blood asserted itselt. Ho refused to stand anymoro dosing, mid told tho doctors tli.it if he must die he could die as well without them'oa with thorn. By this time a cup of milk would turn sour on Ms stomach, and lie there for dajs, Our friend from Glasgow was like a wi'eck in a shoal, fast going to pieces, Wo'will lot him tell tho rest of his experionco in the Words inwhioh he communicated it to the press H(^ays; "When I was In this state a lady whom I had never seen came to tho h|spital and talked with mo. She pi'ovotf<t6 be an angel of meroy, for without her I should not now bo alivo Sho told mo. of a medicine eallod Mother Soigel's Curative Syrup,' and brought ine a bottle next day. I started with it, without consultine the doctor, ■ and in only a few, dap' timelms out of bed calling for ham and eggs for breakfast, Fram that time, keeping on with Mother Seigel's groat romody, I got woll fast, and was soon able to loavo the hospital andcome home to Glasgow, now feel as if a was in another world and have no illness of any kind." The above facts aro calmly and impartially stated, and the reader may draw his own conclusion. We deem it host to uso no names, althougtt Mr Wade gavo thorn in his original deposition. His address is No. 244, Stoboross Street, Glasgow, where letters will reach'him, . .„ ' Kmtor,