TEN MONTHS SUFFERING IN A HOSPITAL.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3572, 28 July 1890, Page 4

TEN MONTHS SUFFERING IN A HOSPITAL.

Thore ia nil old b yinjj that physicians are a class of men who pour ' drugs,, of which ilioy. know little, into bodies of which (hoy know less This 'is both true- and unfile at tho same time. There are good dud poor lawyers, and good and: poor doctors. The trouble with these medical gentlemen.as a • profession is that thoy aro clannish, and apt to be conceited. They don't liko to.bebeaten at their own We by outsiders who liavo never studiod mcdicino, They therefore pay, by their frequent failutoß, tho penalty of rofusing instruolion unicss tho teacher bears their own "Hall Mark."

An eminent physician—Dr Brown' Sequard, of Paris—slates the fact accurately when he says; "The medical profession are so bound up in their - self-contidenco and conceit that tlioy allow tho diamond truths of science bo, picked up by persons entirely outside their ranks." We give , a most interesting incident, which lluslrates this important truth; : • Tho steamsiiip " Concordia" of the Donaldson Lino, sailed froni Glasgow tor Baltimore in 1887, having on board asa fireman a man named Bicnard Wade of Glasgow. Ho hod boon a fireman for fourteen years on various! ships sailin,? from America, China and India, Ho had borne tho hard aiid exhausting labour, and had been healthy and - strong. On the trip we now iiamo he m began for the first time to feel weak and m ill. His appetite failed and ho suffered trom drowsiness, heartburn, a bad tasto in the mouth, and costiveness and irregularity of the bowels. Sometimes when at work he had attacks of giddiness. but supposed it to bo caused- by the lie,it ol the h're-rooni. Quite often he was sick and felt like vomiting and had some pain in the head, Later during tho passage ho grow worso, aiid wheu tho ship reached Halifax ho was plucei iii tho Victoria Goneral Hospital, and the ship sailed away without him. Tho house surgeon gavo him some powders to stop the vomiting, and theuoxt day ■ tho visiting physician pave him a mixturn to tako every four hours, that in two days Wade was bo much worse that tho doctors stopped both the powdors \ and tho mixture, A month passed, the poor fireman getting worse and worse, Then came another doctor, who was. to bo visiting physician for the next fivo months. He gavo other medicines but not much relief. Nearly all the timo Wade rafferod great torture; ha digested nothing, throwing upall heate. Tlicro was terrible pain in |tho bowels, burning heat in the throat, heartburn, and racking headache, The patient was now taking a misturo every four hours, powdors one after oaoli meal to digest the food, operating pills one every night, a and tomperature pills two each night to m stop tho cold sweats. If drugs could ' cure hiin at all, Eichard had an idea that he took enough to do it, But oh tho other hand pleurisy set in and the doctors took ninety ounces of matter from his right side, and then told him ho was Buro to die. Fivo month mora rolled by, and tliero was another change of visiting physicians, Tha now one gavo Wade a mixture which ha said mm him tremble like a leaf own ree

At this crisis Wados Scotch blood asserted itselt. Ho refused to stand any more dosing, and told the doctors that if lie must die ho could die as well without them as with them, By this time a cup ot milk would turn sour on hia stomach, and lie there for dajß, Our friend from Glasgow was like a wreck JflL in 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 Ho says; "Wlion I iras in this state a lady whom I liad nevorscon came to the hospital and talked with me. Sha proved to bo an angel .of mercy, for without her I should not now bo alivo Sho told mo of a medicine called Mother Seigel's Curative Syrup,' and brought mo a bottle next day. I started with it, without couaultinc the doctor, wi in only a few days' timelms out of bd wiling forlrn ad'egp forbmtfaflW From that time, keeping on with • Mother Seigel'a great remedy, X got well fast, and was soon able to leave the hospital and come home to Glasgow, now feel as if a was in another world and have no illness of any kind." Tho above facte aro calmly and im« partially stated, and the reader may draw hia own conclusion, We deem it best to use no names, although Mt Wade gavo thorn in his original deposition. His address is No. 244, Stobcross Street, Glasgow, whore letters will reach him UniToit,