TEN MONTHS SUFFERING IN A HOSPITAL.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3577, 2 August 1890, Page 4

TEN MONTHS SUFFERING IN A HOSPITAL.

- There is ■ an : old b yiun- thnf phyai- 7 cians are a olasstof • men; who drugs, of | little, into bodies '"of' "which 'th'ey know - leas This is both ttue^and ; mi- • i tue at tho iame' good and .poor lawyers,'and good and/' '""■ poor, doctors.,; The trouble'' with these" - medical, gentlemen as a prbfesslori ■« that;they are,clannish-nndaitt'to'be'' 1 conceited,,, They don't like to be beaten 1 '■''■ "■ at their own trade who: have "never /studied medicine; ,'They.: thereforo - pay,*' ; by ''their V fraquoat. failures, the penalty-of 'refusing ib'atruc-' ■ . ijnn unlets the'teagh^rbearstheir'own' ; r ;;:',v.;-^^-'-!'"'; An eminent physiciari-D'r .Brown'• SequMd, of .Paris-states the'faolLv accurately when he: says'; - - cal profession are so bound-up mtheir: se f-confidence and' conceit 'thatthey,; ;nllow -the 'dittraondrtruthß'-'of ! science picked up by porsons ea- : ' tircly outside their ranks."..Ti7e'giv,e . r , a ■ most,.interesting - iucidciili !;i which' X 'A .Uustrateß thia impbrtabt tfutb. :i ':*-;■■ ,w Concordia I '' : of the ' Donaldson Line, sailed from Glasgof ' Kir Baltimore in 1887, haviug mi' board' asa fireman a man named Bichard Wade »f Glasgow. Ho had been a tirtnian for fourteen yoara on various ships sailiu* from- America, Chiha MIM He had borne the hard a'ndexhausting ~ labouv, and-had'beeh healthy, and''-. : strong; Oil- the trirj 1 we now name.he : j ■ began for the first time to feel Veak atid A... ■ ill. His appetite failed and'hb Buttered' ( [mm drowsiness, heartburn, > bad:taste, ; ': mi the moiith. and wstiveness' and irregularity of the bowels, Sometiniar when at work hehadattaoksof giddiness but supposed it to bo caused by the ■-■'■ ■ he.it of'thofiro-rooriv.' Quito often he wa» sick and felt like vomiting, and had some pain in.thohead.> Later diirin? the; passage ho grew worse, and when tho ship reached Halifax he was placed , in tho Victoria General Hospital/and the ship sailed .without; him; The ' house surgeon gavehini some powders "stopthevemi%, and theuoxt day the visiting, physician pave him a mixturn to take every four hours.', that in • two days Wade was so much worse that thedoctors Btopped both the powders ' • ( and the mixture. Amonthpassed.'.the A*' poorhreman getting worse and worse,Then came another doctor, who was to be visiting physioian for the next fivo months, Hogave-other medioinea but not much relief. Nearly all the time Wade suffered, great' torture ; ha digested nothing, throwing lipall heate. There waa'torriblo paid in itho bowels, burning heat in the. throat, heartburn, . and racking headache.' The patient was »' now taking a mixture overy four hours, ponders one after each meal to digest the food, operating pills one'every night, and temperature pills two each night atop the' cold swoata. If drugs couldcure him iit all, Richard had an idea that he took enough to do'it. But on the other, hand pleurisy set in and the doctors took ninety"u^m.'oj'matter Iromhis right side, and'then ; 'told ; .him he.Msiffetb:die t . -Five'month' more 6 rolled by, and there -to- tanbther' change of visiting •'•physicians.,. Tho new one gave'; Wade admixture tfh'icb he ' ret] ' : «:--' ; - .v:: ; "v-rv-: v -<' erted "itself." Hd'"rbfused to" stand any more dosing; and; tiM.the doctors that if .he miist' die lie ■ couhtdie as well • without theni as'with thorn.'By this time a cup of milk: would turn bom on hia stomaoh, and lie there for dajs, Our J friend from Glasgow was like a wwlc \ in a shoal, fast going topieres. lot him tell'the rem of his experience '' in the words in which he communicated it to tho nress " Ho aays ."When.l iras in this state 1( j a lady whom I had never Been oamo to the hospital and talked with me. She proved to be an angel of meroy, for without her I should not now be alivo Sho told me- of, a medicine called Mother Seigol's Curative Syrup,' and brought me a bottle next day. I started with it, witlwnt oonsultin? tho doutor, 1 and inmxly a few detyi' time Ime put qL bed calling forltain aiders for breakfas^f ,1) Froni that...time,, keeping on wichvl Mother Seigel's great remedy, I got well fast, and was soon able to leave the hospital and come homo to Glasgow, now feel as if a was in another world and have no illness of any kind." The above hots are calmly and im« partially Btated, and the' reader may draw his own conclusion. We deem it best to use no names, although Mr Wade gave them in his original deposition. His address is No. 211, Stubareas Street,. Glasgow, where letters will reach him y ' :.