TEN MONTHS SUFFERING IN A HOSPITAL.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3579, 5 August 1890, Page 4

TEN MONTHS SUFFERING IN A HOSPITAL.

Thero is an old b yia s thnt pßyßioians are a class 0 f men *ho>M drugs, of which (hey 1 know little, into bodiea #0 f which less -This is both trae : and uS' rue_at fcha tame tithe. ; Thora aro good and po6rlawyere, and seed and poor do c t oni Tho froiible with these ■ medical gentlemen- As a profession is that they ate clannish, and apt to -be conceited, They don't like to be beaten at their own trade by ontsidors who hare never studied inedfoino'. 'They thereforovpay,- by their, ffoauent ' failures,'the penalty of refusing instrac!!n ?, n B , M .^ e teaoher bf »« their own "Ball Mark.". '' ■'{- : : '..j-j ..:;.' _ An eminent physician-t|)L^ BrownSequard,- of Parii-6tat«,l|ie; faet accurately whcri.he says:; "The niediJ ro ™ Bion W«° hound: up in their self-conhdenoo and. conceit: that they alio* the diamond truths of science be picked up;:by persona: entirely outside their rank?:" We ijive ■" a most, intoreating. r ; incident, which Uuslrates this important truth. '. » Conoordia" of the Donaldson Line, sailed: from' Glasgow for Baltimore in 1837, having on board asa fireman amannamedBichard Wado ", ; of ainsxpw, : He had: boen : a* fireman for fourteen years on various ships sail"}"»Amerioa,:Chta and India. . He had borne the hard and exhausting, : labour,'; and had 'been .healthy anj i strong V On the trip;weWw:name# beganinr the first time to feel'weak add i 11... His appetite Med and ho suttered torn drowneso, heartburn, a bad taste m tho; mouth.;arid ; tostiveneaa and lrrwulanty of the bowels.' Sometimes y when at work be had attacks of giddiness' butsupposfjd it to'beToauaed by ?the heat.o the. fire-room. Quite often he '' wa» sick.and felt like vomiting, arid had . BOme paw in the head. Later duringhe passage ho grew worse, and when; the shin reached Halifax he was placed ' liitho Victoria General Hospital, and the amp sailed away without him. The house sjrgeon gave him some powders . o stop the vomiting and the uext- day he visiting physician t-ave him a inix-" tura to take every four hoara. that in " > wo days Wade was so much worse that, . thedootors stopped both the nowd££< and the mixture. A mouth passed/Iff . mbmrn getting worse and worse. '■' Then came another doctor, who was i. 7 be Physician for the next 6 0 months Ho ? ave other medicines I ™ tn »'mnoh relief. Nearly all the time Wade suffered great torture: ha digested nothing, throwing npallheate. IJiere was terrible pain ia itha bowels, burning heat in tho throat, heartburn, and racking headache. The patient was • now taking a mixture every four hours, > powders ene aftereaoh meal to i ™ food, operating pills one every tusb{ and temperature pills two each night to stop the cold sweats. If drues could cure him at all, Bichard had an idea nat he took enough to do it. But oh , the other hand pleurisy set in andtne t * c(0 " ™* ninety ounces- of matter . fmhi reside, and then told- him, I Erasure to die. Five month more , 5 rolled by and thero was another change of vuiti n? physicians. The now one gave Wade a mixture which he t sald m <«k Aim <rcm6fc like aktfona , ret ■ ■ . ■ J ■ 1 this orisis Wados Scotch blood > asserted itself. He refused to stand ■ anymore dosing, and told tho doctors that if he must die he could'die as well . without them as with them. By this tune a cup of milk would turn sour on his stomach, and he thero for days. Our friend from Glasgow was like a wreak ■' p in a shoal, fast going to pieces. Wejß! let him, tell the rest of his experienoo ) in the words in which he communicated it to the press .. He says, "Whon I was in this itata , a lady whom I had nover seen came to the hospital and'talked with me. She proved to be an,angel of mercy, .for without her I should not now. bo alive She toid me of a medicine called Mother Seigel's Curative Syrup, 1 a'ud , brought me a bottle next day. I Btarted with it, without conaultin? the dqutor. i and tn Mi!y a/en J was mtm bed calling forhm and eggs forbriaitfmr i From that time, keeping on with ; Mother Selgel's groat remedy, I got well ' f«Bt, and was soon able to leave the hospital and come home to Glasgow. ' now feel as if a waß in another world and have no illnessof any kind." ' ■ '. The above facts are calmly and im' partially stated, and the reader may draw hiß own conclusion. We deem it best to nseno names, although Mr Wade gave them inhia original deposition, His address iB No. 244, Stob> orosa Street, Glasgow, where letters will reach him