TEN MONTHS SUFFERING IN A HOSPITAL.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3574, 30 July 1890, Page 4

TEN MONTHS SUFFERING IN A HOSPITAL.

•Theto'is an old sylnsthal physi*' / umnß ;. are ft class of - men" who pour drugs, of which. Ihey know littlo, into bodies of' which , tlioy . know less ' This is both tr'uo and',An- - ruo at the' .Bathetime'.There \ate good'and, poor .lawyowis and good and poor dpctora. Tho trouble. thoßo '<• modical: gentlemen as ai profession is' ' that thoy are clanniah, arid apl tubo > conceited, tThoydpn't iiko to ue beaten • lit their owii' trade by ontßidorswho ■' have never : studied: medicine.v' They bheroforu .pay, " byx-thoir. frequent ' failures, the penalty of refusing instruc- A tlou unless' tile, teacher bears their own "Hall Mark." " An eminent'physician—Dr BrownSoquard, of 'Paris—states the fact accuratelywlienho Bays:. "The medical profession aro so bound up in their, self-conlidonoo and conceit that they allow tha diamond truths '.of science be picked up by ■ persons entirely outside] their ranks,"- We givo a most interesting incident, wWrfi. llustrates this important truth. •"> nf;' ■ Tlw atcamanip " (Joncordia" of the Donaldson Line, sailed from' Glasgow for Baltimore in 1887, having on board asa.fireman'amnn named RichardWado of GlnSiiow. He had been a fireman for fourteen years on vanuU6 Bhips sailing from America, China, and India. Ho had borne the hard and exhausting . labour; and had, been ; healthy, and strotg. On the trip we now began for the first time to feel wealed ill. His appetite failed audho su&red ■ drowsiness, heartburn, a bad taste iii tho mouth, and costivehess. and irresrularity of the. bowels., Sometimes' when at work ho had attacks of giddiness but supposed it to bo caused by tho heat of the fire-room. Quite'often he wn» sick and felt like vomitidt;, and had some pain in tho head.' Later during tlie passage ho grew Worse, and vliou the ship reached Halifax ho was placed, in tho Victoria General Hospital, and the ship sailed away without him. Tho house surgeon gave him somo powders to stop the vomitinc, and tha next day the visiting physician rave him a mixturn to take evory four hours, that in two days Wade was so much worse that the doctors stopped-both the powder*... andtlie mixture. A moiith passed,' fIST poor fireman getting worse and worse, Then came another doctor, who was to be visiting physician for the next five months., .He gave other medicines but not much relief. Nearly all tho time Wado Buffered great torture; ha digested nothing, throwing up all heato. 'fhero was terrible pain in (the bowels, burning heat in the throat, heartburn, and raoking headache, The patient was now taking a mixture overy four hours, powders one after each meal to digest the food, oporating pills one orery ujght. and temperature pills two each nigflßb stop the cold sweats. If drugs could cure hint at all, Richard had an idea that he took enough to do it, But oil tho other hand pleurisy set in aud (Ae Mors took ninety hwicm ofmtler from his right side, and then told him ho was sure to dio. Fivo month moro rollud by, and thero was. another chango of visiting physicians, The new one gave Wade a mixture which ho snid math him tremble like a leaf om ree ' At this crisis Wados Scotch blood asserted itsel|. Ho refused to stand any niuro dosing, and told the doctors that if ho must dio he could die as well without them as with theral By this tirno a cup of milk would turn Bottr on his stomaoh, and he there for dajs. friend from Glasgow was like a wijL\ in a shoal, fast going to pieces. Wow^ 1 let him tell the real of his experience iu tho words in which he communicated it to the cress Ho says, "Whon I was in this state a lady whom I had noversconc&mo to tho hospital and talked with me> She proved to bo an angel of meroy, for without her . I should not now bo alive She told mo of a medicine called Mothor Beigel's Curative Syrup,' aud brought me a bottlo next day. I started with it, without consultih? the doctor, and in only a fat, days' time I teas ovW bed calling for.hm and eggs forked}^ B From .that tim&, keeping on with Mother Seigcl's great remedy, I got wellfast, and was soon able to leave tho hospital andcome home to Glasgow, now feel as if a was in another world and have no illncss of any kind," The above facts aro calmly and impartially stated, and the reader njay draw his own conclusion. We deem it best to use no names, although Mr Wade gave them in his original deposition. • Hi address is No. 241, Stobcross Street, Glasgow, where letters will reach him Kmtox.