TEN MONTHS SUFFERING IN A HOSPITAL.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3585, 12 August 1890, Page 4

TEN MONTHS SUFFERING IN A HOSPITAL.

Thorc is an old s that phyaic'ans nr o a class of men who pour drugs, of which I hey know little, into bodies of which thoy - know less This is both (ran mid untoe at the same time. Tharo are good and poor lawyers, and eood and poor doctors. Tho trouble with these medical gentlemen as a profession is that thoy ate clammh, and apt to be conceited. They don't like to be beaten at their own trade by outsiders who nave _never studied inedicino. Thoy therefore pay, by their frequent tailureß, the penalty of refusing instruo!i°u teacher bears their own "Hall Mark," An eminent physician—Dr Brownbequard, of Paris-states the fact accurately when ho saya: "Tho mcdica profession are so hound up inthoir self-contidenco and conceit that they allow the diamond truths of science bo picked up by porsons entirely outside their ' ranks." We tjivo a most interesting incident, which Uustrates this important truth. The steamsnip " Oonoordio" of the Donalaeon Lino, sailed from Glasgow for Baltimore in IBB7< having on board nsa firoman a man named Richard Wade of Glasgow. He had boon' a fireman for fourtoen years on various ships sailu* <T, Ameri China and India. Uo had borno tho hard and exhausting labour, and had been healthy and stroig. On the trip we now namo ho began for the first lime to foel weak and ill. Bis appetite failed and ho sutlered tram drowsiness, heartburn, a bad taste in tho mouth, and costiveness and irregularity ,of the-bowels. Sometimes when at work ho had attacks of giddiness but supposed it to bo caused" by the ,°f the , fire-room, Quite often he was sick and felt like vomiting and had Borne pain in the head. Lator during the passage ho grew worse, and when (he ihip reaohed Halifax he was placed iU tho Victoria General Hospital, and the mp sailed away without him. The souse surgeon gave him some powders to stop the vomiting, and the next day the visiting physician pave him » mixturato take every fourhourfl, that in two days Wade was so much worse that thodoctow stopped both the powden, and the mixture, A month passed, tho poorhreman getting worse and worse. J.hen came another doctor, who was to be visiting physician for the noxt five months. He Efave other medicines but not muchreliefr Nearly all tho: time Wado suffered great torture; ha digested nothing, throwing npall he ate, There was terrible pain in (the bowels, burning heat in the throat, heartburn, and racking headache. Tho patient was now tafeinj! 1 mixture evorv four hours, powders one after each meal to digest the food, operating pills ono overv night, tind temperature piila two each night to op tho cold ewoftta. If drugs could cure him at all, Richard had an idea that he took enough to do it. But oh the other hand pleurisy set in and iht doctors took ninety owm of matter /toin/tij fight side, and then told him ho was sure to die. Five month moro rolled by, and there. woa another

chango of visiting physicians, The new one gave Wade a mixture which he sua ma<Lhim tremble lihuletfona 1 ret . fc h'a crisis Wades Scotch blood asserted itselt, He refused to stand any more dosing, and told the doctors that if he must die he could die as well without them as with them, By this time a cup of milk would turn sour ort 1m stomach, and lie there for dnjs. Our friend from Glasgow was like a wreck in a shoal, fast going to pieros, Wo will let him toll tho rat of his experience in tho words in which he communicated ■ to the press Ha says. "When I was in this state

lady whom I had never seen cnrao to : the hospital and talked with me. She proved to bo an angol uf mercy, for 1 without hor I should not now bo alivo She told mo of a medicine called ' Mother Seigol'a Curative Syrup,' mid brought mo a bottle next day. I started with it, without consultine the doutor, and in only a fe\o days' f imo I was out of iicd ailing for ham and iggs forbreaifati From .that timo, keeping en with Mother Seigel'a groat romedy, I got well ( fast, atid was Boon able to leave the hospital andcomo homo to Glasgow, now feel as if a was in another world and have no illness of any kind." Tho abovo facte are calmly and impartially stated, and tho reader may draw his own conolußion. Wo deem it best to bbo no, names, although Mr Wade gave them in his original deposition. His address is No. 244, Stoboross Street, Glasgoir, where letters will reach himEditor,