TEN MONTHS SUFFERING IN A HOSPITAL.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3589, 16 August 1890, Page 4

TEN MONTHS SUFFERING IN A HOSPITAL.

There is an old a yin» that jihyaioiana aro a class nf men who pour drogsj . of which thoy know littlo, into., bodies of which thoy know less This is both true and' uurue at the same, ' time, Thore are good and poor' lawyers, and good and poor doctors. The trouble with these medical gontlemeri as a profession is that they are clannish, and apt to bo conceited, They don't like to be beateti at their own trade by outsiders who have never studied medicino, They therefore pay,, by their frequent failures, tho penalty of refusing instruction nntcss tho teachor bears their own "Hall Mark," An eminent physician—-Dr BrownSequatd, of Paris-states the faot accuratelywlionho says! "The modi--081 P r ofession are bo bound up in thoir self-contidonco .and conceit that they allow tile diamond truths of Bcience bo picked tip by persona entirely outside thoir ranks." We give a most interesting incident, which llustratea this important truth.

_lhe steamsnip " Conoordia" of tho. ] Donaldson Lino, sailed from Glasgow lor Baltimoro in 1887, having on board asa fireman a man named Hicliard-Wodo of Glasgow. He had been a fireman for fourtoen years on various ships sail*. J rt ' m America, China and .India He had borne' tho hard and exhausting labour, and had been healthy and stroij;. On the trip we now hamo he began for the first time to feel weak and ill. His appetite failed and ho sudored trom drowain'osa, heartburn, a bad taste in the mouth and costivenesß and irregularity of the bowels. Sometimes when at work ho had attacks of giddiness but supposed it to be caused by the heat of-the lire-room. Quite ofton ho was sick and felt like vomiting, and had some pain in the head, Later during the passage, he grew worse, and when the ship reached Ualifai he was placed n tho Victoria General Hospital, and the I ,hip sailed away without him. The ouso surgeon gave him some powders to stop thu vomiting, and the next day tho'visiting physician pave him » mixture to take every fout hours, that in two days Wade was so uiuch worso that

thodoccors stopped both the powders and tho mixture. A month passed, tho poorli'eman getting worse and worse. Then came another doctor, who waß to bo visiting physician for the next nvo months. He gave,other medicines but not much relief. Nearly all the timo Wade suffered groat torture ; ha digested nothing, throwing up all ho ate. There was terrible pain ill .tho bowels, burning hoat in the throat, heartburn, and racking headache, The patient was now taking a mixturo ovory four hours, poivdets one aftor each meal to digest the f'iod, operating pills one overy night, and temperature pills two each night to atop tho cold swoats. If drugs could cure him at all, Richard had an idea that he took onough to do it. But on the other hand pleurisy sot in and the rfoctori took ninety "Khcos of malttr Iromhis right side, and then told him , .. W j ß ? ure to die. Fivo month more rolled by, and there was another ( change of visiting physicians, The new one_gave Wade a urxturo wlich he ( wid >iwrf' him limbic lifa a let/ ona

Ih's crisis Wades Scotch blood asserted itself. Ho refused to stand any more dosing, and tuld tho doctors that if he must dlo ho could dio as well without them as with them. By this time a cup »f milk would turn soar on his stomaoh, and ho there for da) s. Our friend from Ulaßgow was like a wreck

ilia shoal, fast going to pieces, Wo will lot him- toll the rest of hiß experience iu the words In which he communicated to the nross '[He says, "When I" waß in tins state lady whom I had never aeon camo to tho hospital and talked with mo. She proved to bo an angel of mercy, for without her I should not now bo alive She told mo of a- medicine called Mother Seigora Curativo Syrup,' and brought lie a bottle next day, 1 started with it, without consulting the doetor, and in only a few days' time I tens onto/ bed (ailing for ham and eggs for breakfast. From that timo, keoping en with Mother Seigel's groat remedy, I got woll fast, and was soon able io leave the hospital and come homo to Glasgow, now feel as if a was in hnothor world and havo no illness of any kind," The abovo facts aro calmly and impartially stated, and tho reader may draw his own conolußion, Wo deem it beat to use no names, although Mr Wade gavo them in his oiiginal deposition, His address is No 244, Stobcross Street, Glasgow where letter! will reach him Kdiioe,