TEN MONTHS SUFFERING IN A HOSPITAL.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3673, 29 July 1890, Page 4

TEN MONTHS SUFFERING IN A HOSPITAL.

Therois anold-'Byin-l that pLysi«s are a eta nf nien who pout drugs oi which (hoy know little, into bodies._of which they kno ; less This is. both true and uu-tho-same time. There are good and poor lawyers, andeood and poor doctors. The trouble with these medical goutlomon as a profession is that they ate clannish, and apt to be concoifced. Thoy don't like to be beaten iat their owu trade by outsiders who have nover studied raedioinb, They therefore pay, by their, frequent failures, the penalty of refusing instruolionunicss tlio teacher bears their own "Hall Mark."

.An eminent phyaician-Dr BrownSequnrd, of Paris-states the fact accurately whonlio says: "The medical profession nro so bound up In their self-contidenco and conceit • that they allow the diamond truths of science bo picked up by persons entirely outsido their ranks." We t>ive a most interesting incident,- which llustratcs this important truth. .• ■' ; The steamsnip " Concordia"' of the Donaldson Line, sailed from Glasgow lor Baltimore in 1887, having on board asa fireman a man named Bichard Wade of Glasgow. He had been a fireman for fourteen years on various ships sailHi* from America, China and India, He had borne the hard and exhausting labour, and had been healthy and strong, Ou the trip wo now liame ho began for the first time to feel weak and ill. Bis appetite failed and ho suttored troin drowsiness heartburn, a bad tasto in the mouth, and coativeness and irregularity of the bowels. Sometimes when at work he had attacks of giddiness but supposed if to bo caused by the heat of the tire-room. Quito often he wm sick and felt like rauitin?, and had Borne pain in tho hoad. Later during the passage ho grow worse, aud when the Bhip reached Halifax he was placed in tho Victoria General Hospital, and the ship sailed away without him. The house surgeon gavo him some powders to stop the vomiting, and the next day tho visiting physician rave him a mixture to take evory four hours, that in two days Wade was so much worse that the doctors stopped both the powders and tho mixture. A mouth passed, tho poorfiremaii getting worse and worse, Then came another doctor, who was to be visiting physician for the next five months. Ho save other medioinea but not much relief. Nearly all the time Wado suffered great torture; ha digested nothing, (browing up «H heato. Thero was terrible pain iu [tho bowels, burning heat in tho throat, heartburn, and racking headache. The patient was now taking a mixture overy four hours, powders ene after eaoh meal to digest the food, operating pills one every night, and tomperaturepills two each night to atop the cold sweats. If drugs could cure him at all, Richard had an idea that ho took enough to do it. But on the other hand pleurisy set in and the doctors took ninety ounces o/tnaffei* from /lis right side, and then told him ho was sure to die. Five month moro rolled by, and there was. anothor change of visiting physicians. The new ono gave Wade a mixture which he said mwkhitn tremble lib a leafona ne

At thisoriais Wados Scotch blood asserted itselt. He refused to stand any moro dosing, and told tho doctors that if ho must die lie could die as well without them as with'them. By this time a cup of milk would .turn sour on lujs stomach, and lio there for days, Our friend from Glasgow was like a wreck in a shoal, fast going to pieces. We will let him tell tho rest of his experience in the words in which he communicated it to tb& press

Hosays; "Whon I mis in this state a lady whom I had never seen came to tho hospital and talked with me. She proved to bo an angolof nioroy, for without her I should not uow bo aliva She told me of a medicine called Mothor Soigel's Curative Syrup/ and brought ine a bottlo next day, I started with it, without consulting the dootor, and in only a ftw days' tktlwu out of M mttingforhm anAiggi forbrealtfati. From that time, keeping on with Mother Seigel'B great remedy, I 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." • The above facts are calmly and impartially stated, and the reader may drawhiß own conclusion. Wo deem it best to use no names, although Mr Wade gave Iheni in his original deposition,- His address is No. 244,-Stob-oross. Street, Glasgow, where letters will reach him Kdiior.