TEN MONTHS SUFFERING. IN A HOSPITAL.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3591, 19 August 1890, Page 4

TEN MONTHS SUFFERING. IN A HOSPITAL.

. There Is an old i yiag that physiclans aro atlas's of ; men, who pour driigß, /of which I hey know Mo, into bodies .of : whioh they- know less ■ This is both trua and unrue at the time. Thsre are ' good and poor lawyers, a'nd'eood and poor doctors. The trouble with these j inedical gentlemen as a profession io that they are clannish, and apt to bo conceited. They don't like to be beaten at their own trade by ontsidors who 7 navo never studied inedicino. They 1 therefore pay, by their frequent , failures, the penalty of refusing install)noil uniOß3 tiio teacher bears their own f "Hall Mark," ■An eminent physician—Dr Brownboqunrd. of Paris-states the fact accurately when ho Bays : "Tho modi, cal profession we bo bound up in their BEjf-coiifadenco and eonceit that they allow the diamond truths of science be -picked up by persona entirely outside their ranks." We tjivo a most interesting incident,, which uußtratea this important truth, The steamsnip " Concordia" of tho i Donaldson Line, sailed from Glasgow for Baltimore in 1887, having dn board asa fireman aihn named Richard Wado' of Glasgow, He had' been a fireman for. fourteen yeaYs on various ships sailS'America. China and'-India. He had homo tho hard aiid exhausting labour, and had been healthy and strong. On the trip wo now name he began for tho first timejo feel weak and : ill. ais appetite failed and ho suilered trom drowsiness, heartSiirn, a bad taste in the mouth, and costiveness and irregularity of the bowels. Sometimes when at workhohadattaoksof giddinosß

but supposed .it to bo* caused"by ,the neat o the (ire-room, Quito often he waa Bick and felt like vomiting, and had Borne pain in the head.'; Later during, ] the passage ho grew worse,'and when : t<io ship reached Halifax he was placed n the Victoria General Hospital, and the nip sailed away without him. The ' ouse surgeon gavo him Borne powders «stop the vomiting, and the next day the tutting physician rave him a mixture to take every four hours, that in two days Wade was bo much worso that thodootora stopped: both the powdon, and the imituro, A month passed, the poor hreman getting worse and worse. Inen came another doctor," who was to be visiting physician for tho next five months. He gave other medicines but not much relief. Nearly all the time Wndo suffered groat torture: ha digested nothing, throwing upall he ate. Ihero was terrible pain in|tha bowolß, burning heat 111 tho throat, heartburn, and racking headache. The patient was now t&KMK a mixture every four hours, powders one after each meal to digest the food, operating pills one everv night, and temperature pills two each night to P cold Bweata. If drues could cure him at all, Kichard had an idea bathe took enough to do it, But oh t ie other hand pleurisy set in and the doctors took ninety ounces of matter fmhs right side, an'd thon told him ho was sure to die, Five month moro rolled by, and there was another Chango of visiting physicians; The Hew one gave Wade a mixture which he said tremble likakifona m

this crisis Wades Scotch blood 3 asserted itsolt. Ho refused to stand any moro dosing, and told tho doctors 8 that if h» must die ho could dio as well without thorn as with them-, By this ' time a cup of milk would turn sour on his Btomach, and lie there for dajs. Our friend from Glasgow was like a wreck in a shoal, fast going to pieces, Wo will 1 let him tell the rest of 'his experience' ir tho words in which he communicated to the nross [ He says. "When I was in this stato lady whom I had nevor seen camo to 1 the hospital and talked with mo. She proved to bo an angel of meroy, for f without her I should not n&w bo alive She- told mo of a medicine called ' Mother Soigol's Curativo .Syrup,' and brought me a bottle next day, I started with it, without consulting tlio dootor, and t'ti only a-few days' time Ikhs oil{of hid colling foT Jmmt and'cggs forbrcaJfat, From that timei keeping on with Mother Seigel'a groat remedy, I got well , fast,- and was soon ablo to leave the hospital and come homo to Glasgow,. now feel as if a was in another world and have no illneßSof any kind." The above facts are calmly and impartially stated, and tho reader may draw his own conclusion. We deem it host to me no' names, although Mr Wade gave them in his original deposition. His address is No. 244, Stoboross Street, Glasgow whero letters will feaoh him Uditor,