TEN MONTHS SUFFERING IN A HOSPITAL.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3590, 18 August 1890, Page 4

TEN MONTHS SUFFERING IN A HOSPITAL.

There is au old u.yin* that physicians are a class of men who pour "rap, of jvhichlhey know little, nto bodies of which they knmr ess .This is both truo and unat tho same lime. Thsrc are ;ood and poor lawyers, and good and j S!n,r' 01 '! i Tho lroubl9 with «we J nodical gentlemen as a profession it M ie f t chnnißh, and apt to bo wnoMteJ. Thoydon'tliketobebeaten ta\a now studied medicine. They hereforo piy, by their frequent i ailnres, tho penalty of refusing instrnc- * Sequard, o Pans-states the fact ocuratclywhen he say,: "The medica profession are so bound up m their se f-conhdenco and conceit that they ' jHo* the diamond truths of science bo picked up by persons entirely outsido their ranks." We rift a most frosting incident, which mutates this important truth. lho steamsnip " Concordia" of the I Donaldson Lino, .sailed .from Glasgow 01 Baltimore!., 1887, having on bo°ard aanemanamannainedEichardWado rfT' foutonyears on vaiions ships sail- , i" rm America China and Jndia * 2,™ bu ™fl'o Wand exhausting, labour, and had been healthy and ( bgank-tho first tjme to feel weak and J »• His.appetito failed and ho sutlbrecl omdrowsine. heartburn, a bad S »» the. mouth, and'costivenoss and w en atwAbohadattacks of giddiness but supposed it to be caused" by the «of tho hrcTOm. Quito'often he «a» siek and felt like vomiting, and had some pain in the hoad, Later during i the passage ho grow worse, and when teshqiroaelicd Halifax he was placei i) tho Victoria General Hospital, and the "iP sailed away without him. The : ouse surgeon gave him some powders OBtopthsvomitins, and the nest day e v siimg physician eavo him a mixuieo take every four hours, that in vo days Wade was so much worse that hedoctors stopped both' tho powders nt7 ra,xtuiu . " Amo,lth Passed, tho poorhreinan getting worse ail d work Then came another doctor, who was to be v ' B ,"ing physician for the next vo months Ho gave other medunes but not™*relief. Nearly all tho digested nothing, throwing upallheate. burning heat in tho throat, heartburn and racking headache. The patient was now taking a mixture every four hours, powders eno after each meal to digest the food, operating pills one evorv night, and temperature pills two each night to stop tho cold sweats. If drugs could euro him at all, Eichard had an idea hat he took enough to do it. But on the other hand pleurisy set in and tk mors took ninety mnces of mutter fromlm nyht ddc, and then told him hei was sure to die. Five month moro rolled by and there was another change of visiting physicians. The now one gave Wade a mixture which he mi mad, him tremble likeakafoim rcc ' th:'i crisis Wades Sootch blood asserted itselt. He refused to stand any more dosing, and told the doctors that if he must dio ho could die as well withont them as with them. By. this time a cup of milk would turn sour on his stomach, and lie thore for days, Our friend from Glasgow was like a wreck in a shoal, fast going to pieces. Wo will let him tell the rat of his experience ir tho words in which he communicated to the press Hesays."Whenl was In this state Uady whom I had nevorseon came to the hospital and talked with me. She i proved to be an angel of mercy, for , without her I should not now bo alive She told me of a medicine callod ' Mother Beigel's Curative Syrup,' mid brought me a bottle next day. I started with it, without cunsultine the doutor, and in onhj a fm days' time I was out of bed calling forham and eggs forkcahfast. From that time, keeping on with Mother Seigel's great remody, I got well fast, and was aoon able to leave the hospital and come homo to Glasgow. ■■ now feel as if a.waa in another world and have no illness of any kind." 1 The above facts are calmly and impartially Btated, aud the reader may draw his own conclusion.. Wo deem it bost to use no names, althougu Mr Wado gave them in his original deposition, His address is No. 244, Stoboross Street, Glasgow whero letters will reach him Editor,