TEN MONTHS SUFFERING IN A HOSPITAL.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3593, 21 August 1890, Page 4

TEN MONTHS SUFFERING IN A HOSPITAL.

c: There ia an old ;aying .that; physicians are .ft.^classVpf' men'.who pour drugs, of "which ihoy" know little," into bodies of which *• they knoif 1 less This ,is, both true and . unrue at tho : eaihe' time.;,.There s are good and poor' lawyers, and good and poor doctors. The trouble with' these medical gentlemen ..as, a profession .is that they "are clannish, and apt to be conceited. Thoy don't like to bet eaten at their [own. trade by outsiders who havo never studied medicine. They therefore; pay, by . their 'frequent failures, the penalty of refusing instruction nniess tho teaoher bears their own "Hall Mark.". i..

An eminent physician—Dr BrownSequard,' of Paris—states the , fact accurately when he aaya: "Tho modi- ' cat profession are bo bound up in their ; Bclf-conhdenco and conceit that they : allow the, djamond truths of science be picked up by.' persons entirely outside their ranks.'! We give a most; interesting incident, which • Uustrates this important truth. . ."v.:, '

TnO BtGamsnin (]/innnr/lia" «f. il. uafinnua anvinnamedEichard Wada 4 of .Glasgow. fie ,had been a fireman for fourteen years, on .various eltipa sailtr* /"j", mer ' oa > China and India, lie had borne the hard and exhausting labour, ; and' had : been\healt)iy' and 1 stroig. .On the trip we now namo he began for the first time to'feel weak and

ill. His apjiefite failed and ho Buttered from drowsiness,'heartburn, a bad taste in tho jmouth. and. costiveness. and irregularity. of the bowels! Sometimes when at' work beh'ad attack's of giddiness but supposed it to be, caused by the heat of the fire-room. Quite often he wna siok .and felt like vomiting and had

sorno pah ia tho head. Later during the passage' he 1 grew worse, arid when

the ahip reached Halifax he was placed n tho Vlotoria General Hoßpital, arid the i hip sailed, away: without him. The house surgeon gave him some powders

o stop the vomiting, and the uoxt day the visiting physioian pave him a mixture to take every four hours, that in two days Wade waß so much worso that tnedoctors stopped-both' the powdora and the mixture. A nionth passed, the man S G tting worse and worse, J. hen eamo another doctor, who was to. be visiting physioian for tho next five months. -Ho gave other medicines

but not much relief. - Nearly all the time Wado Buffered great torture; h& digested nothing, throning up all lie ate. lliere was terrible pain in|the bowels, burning heat in tho throat, heartburn, and racking headacho.';The patient was now taking a mixture every four hours, powders one. after.each meal to digest the food, operating pills one evory night, and temporature pills two each night to

stoptho cold sweats. If drugs could cure him at all, Bichard had an idea that he ■ took enough to do it. But oh' the other hand pleurisy set in and the doctors: iooh, .ninety ounces of natter from hit right'side, and then told him tiiT ? ure '° ( ' lO, Rw-month moro lolled by, and there was another change of visitingjaphysician b. The new one gave Wade a mixture which he Mid made Mm tteinhk like a Imf ona ''CO

this crisis Wades Scotch blood assayed itselt. He refused to Btand any moro dosing, and told the doctors that if he must die he could die as well without them as with them. By this timo a cup of milk would turn soar on his stomach, and lie there for dajs. Our friend from Glasgow was like a wreck in a shoal, fast going to pieces, We will let him tell the reat of his experience ir tho words in which he communicated to the press He says, "Whon I was in tills state lady whom I had never seen came to tho hospital and talked with me. She proved to be an angel'of meroy, for without her I should not now bo alivo Sho told 1110 of, a niedicino called Mother Seigel's Curative Syrup,' nud brought me a bottle next day. I started with it, without Consulting the doctor, and in only a few days' time I was out of kd tailing for /wm and cjjs {or brcdjatl. From that time, keeping on with Mother Seigel's groat remedy, I got woll fast, and was soon able to leave the hospital and come home to Glasgow, now feel as if a wab in another world and have no illness of any kind." The above facta are calmly and impartially stated; and the render may draw his own conclusion. We deem it best to use no; names, although Mr Wade gaye'them in his original deposition. His address is No. 244, Stohoross Street, Glasgow wkero letters will reach him . Kdiior,