TEN MONTHS SUFFERING IN A HOSPITAL.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3597, 26 August 1890, Page 4

TEN MONTHS SUFFERING IN A HOSPITAL.

Thero is an old sying that pliyai- ' cians are a class .of men who pour ■: ' (Irugs, of which Ihoy know little, into bodies of- which they know , less This is both tru# and unif rue at the same time, Tharo are* good and poor lawyers, ; and trood and poor doctors. The trouble with theao medical gentleman as a profession is that, they areVclannish, and apt to be ' conceited, jhey don't liko to be beaten at. their own trade by ontsidora who havo ndver studied medicine... They, therefor# pay, by their frequent failures, the penalty ohofußinginstruo-. : '!™ unjoßß the teacher bears tiieir own "Hall Mark," •An eminent,physician— Dr Brown* Sequard, of Paris-states the faot accurately when he jays: medical profession are so hound up in their aelf-conhdenoo and.conceit that they. . allow the diamond truths of ecienco be r .picked up by persons . tirely outsido their ranks, 1 ' Wc ((ivo • la most interring incident, which.. 11 usrrates this important truth,... Thivsteamanip " Concordia" of the Uonaldson Line, sailed from Glasgow*" tor Baltimore in 1887, having on board aßa fireman a man named Richard Wade of Glasgow, Ho had been a fireman * for fourteen years on various ships sailer* ijl mcr ' ca ' China and India, no had borne the hard and exhausting labour, and had been healthy and V strong. On the trip we now name he began for the first time to fcel weak and*ill. Bis appetito failed and ho sutlerecl trom drowsiness, heartburn, a bad tasta in tho mouth, and costiveness and irregularity of the bowels. Sometimes when at work be had attacks of giddiness ■ butsupposed it to bo caused by'the heat of the lira-room. Quite often he ■ was sick and felt like vomiting, and had ■ onto pain in the head. Later during. ■ lio pusaage lio grew worse, and wheuLhe ship reached Halifax he was placed ' . n tho Victoria Goneral Hospital, and the wp sailed away without him. The to use surgeon gave him some powders to atop the vomiting, and tho next day tho visiting physician pave him a mixturn to take evory four hours, that in two days Wade was so much worse that thedootors stopped both the. powdors and the mixture. A month passed, the poorti'eman getting worso and worse. Then came another doctor, who wa to bo vißiting phyaioian for the nex nvo months. Ho gave other medioine but not much relief. Nearly all th time Wade suffered great torture; hi digested nothing, throwing lip all he'ate. There was terrible pain in |tho bowels, burning heat in the throat, heartburn, and racking headacho. The.patient was now taking a mixture overy four hours, powders one after each meal to digest the food, operating pills one every h and temperature pillß two each night totr stop tho cold sweats. If drugs could * ■jure him at all, Richard had an idea •hat he took enough to do it. JButi on the other hand pleurisy set jn and (Ac iwtort. took ninety ounces of imtler from his right side, and then told him

ho was sure to die. Five mouth moro rolled by, and thero was another change of visiting, physicians. The now one gave Wade a mixture which he said maikhim tremble lih a laf om ret

this crisis Wades Scotch blood asserted itselt, He refused to stand anymore dosing, and told thodoctors that if he must die he could die aB well without them as with them. By thiajfc time a nup of milk would tnrn sour on* his stomach, and he there for daj s. Our friend from Glasgow was like a wreck in a shoal, fast going to pieces. Wo will let him teil tho reio of his experience ir the words in which he communicated to Ihe press . esays; "When I was in this Btato '. Wady whom I had never seen camo to ha hospital and talked with me. Bho proved to be 'an angel of mercy, for without her I should not now bo alivo Slio told me of , a medicine called Mother SeigeW Curative Syrup,' and brought me a bottle next day. I started with it, without consulting the. doutor, and in only a few days' time Im out of < bed ailliiit/forham an dcyys forbmlfasUftif From that time, keeping on with Mother Seigel's groat remedy, I got well fast, and was soon able to leave the hospital and come home to Glasgow, now feel as if a was in another world and have no illness of any kind." The above facts are calmly and impartially Btftted, and the reader may draw his own conclusion," We deem it best to use no names, although Mr Wade gave them in his .original deposition. His address is No. 244, Stoboross Stroot, Glasgow whero letters will reach him