TEN MONTHS SUFFERING IN A HOSPITAL.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3576, 1 August 1890, Page 4

TEN MONTHS SUFFERING IN A HOSPITAL.

Thoro is an old b that pliyai-- ' v oians are a class of men who now drugs, of which fhoj know little, ' mto bodies of wliioh thoy know less This" is both' true and tin. ir rue at the eamc time. There aro « good and poor lawyers, and eood and poor doctors. Tho trouble with these medical gentlemen as a profession is • ' that they are clannish, and apt to bo , ' conceited. Thoy don't liko to bo beaten at their own trado by onteidors who have nevor Btudiod medicine,- Thoy therefore pay, by their frequent failures, the penalty of rcfuaihg inatruc. , iio)t unless the teacher bears their own "Hall Mark," in eminent phyaician-Dr BrownSqquatd, of Paris—states the fact accurately when ho says: "The me» oil profession aro so hound up in thMh. self-confidoiico and conceit thai they*'* .»llow tho diamond truths of science be picked up 'by persons i entirely outside their ranks," We (five a most interesting incident, which Hußlrates this important truth, The Bteaiiunip " Uoncordia" of the (L Donaldson Lino, sailed from Glasgow A for Baltimore i>i 1887, having on board ~" asa fireman a man named Bichard Wade iif Glasgow. Ho had been a fireman for fourteen years on various Bhipa. sailinjt from' America, China and India. He had borne the hard and exhausting - ' labour; and-had been healthy and ,<. strong. On the trip we now name ho [J began for the first time to feel weak and ill. His appetite failed and ho suffered ' y trom drowsiness, heartburn, a bad taste , in the mouth, and qoativeness and irregularity of the bowels! Sometimes when at work he had attacks of giddiness " . \ but supposed it to bo caused by the iicafc of the fire-room.- Quite often lie who sick and felt like vomiting, and had some, pain in tho head, Later during v the passage ho grew worse, and when s ' the ship reached Halifax he was placed in tho Viotoria General Hospital, and the ship sailed away without him. The house surgeon gave him some powders to atop the vomitinir, and the next day the visiting physician yave him a mixturn to tako evory four hours, that in ~* ' two days Wade was so much worse that, thedootors stopped Loth the powders and the miituro. A month passed, tho poor fireman getting worse and worse. -''- > Then cauie another doctor, who was £p to be visiting physioian for the next five months. He gave other medicinea but not much relief. Nearly all the time Wado Buffered great torture j ha digested nothing, throwing up nil he ate. , . There wa» terrible pain in (the bowels,' burning heat in tho'throat, heartburn, . and racking headache. The patient was : . - | now takings mixture every four hours, powdors ene after each meal to . the food, operating pills one every night, _^. and temperature pttiu two oach night to -\pß stop tho cold sweats. If drugs could Wre him at all, Richard had air idea that he took, enough to do it, Butoli tltenther hand plourisy eet.in and</i« doclorj tkk ninthj mmta ofimiltt fnfnlm tiytt'sWe, and then told him ho'.fraßsiireto die. Five month mora - 3 rolled by,, and there was'another chango of Visiting physicians, : Tho new ono gave Wade a mixture which ho mi matkhiti tremblt fits dhrf ona ' *K| ■' ,".'.'• .■■■' :■■ ?.■■■■ . ;: this crlsiß Wadoß Sootch blood asserted itself. He refuted"to stand" ' any more dosiiig, and told the doctors that if he miiSt die he could die as well, without them is with them. : By this' : tuiii a cup of liiilk would turn sour on : hia stomach, and lie there for days. Our l friend from Glasgow was like a wreck in a shoal, fast going to pieces.' We will let.him tell thereat, of his experience 'in the words in which he communicated jk.) it to tho press : . €^ 1 He sayß, "Whon'l was In tliis atata . a lady whom I had never seen carao to the hospital arid talked with me. She proved to bo ati a'ngol of mercy, for • without her I should not now bo alive She" told mo .of a medicine callsd Mother Seigel's. Curative Syrup,' ami brought me a bottle noxt day,'l started. ' with it, without consultinp tho doutor,' . ' : m&in oriy a fwkyi'tim Imi onl of ' , \|T ! From that time, keeping ori .with V Mother Seigel's great remedy?! gotwell' ". ■"■'■■' fast, aud was s6bn able '.to loava the hospitalandcome'home to Glasgow, • now feel as if a was in another world ■ and have no illneisof any kind." The abovofaola' are calmly and ini- • partially stated] ind the reader maydraw his own conclusion.' We deem lb boat to uaeuo hamea, although Mr " Wade gave them In his original de'poil* tion. His address is No. 244, gtob* ' > orosa Street, Glasgow, whoro letters willreaoh him . .WntTftß.