EN MONTHS SUFFERING IN A HOSPITAL.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3399, 28 August 1890, Page 4

EN MONTHS SUFFERING IN A HOSPITAL.

x There Is an old that physk mans are a class of men '.who pour I drugs,; of which (hoy know' little, iinto bodies ef'whloh ■ th'ey : -know : iless •.Thia is both'tru*:and' un- .i ruo' at the ..name time,: There are • f ■ - good and poor lawyers, and good and ,' poor doctors. The troiible with thoso '. medical gentlemen"as 1 a' profession is . that they aro clannish, and apt tb: be conceited. They doh'Hiko to be beatenat their owir trade'by.onts'idors who have never studied medioino. They ■ " therefore pay, ; by,' tHoir' .-■ failures, tho penalty.of rbfimngimtraii' liou unless the teacher'bears their own "HallMark," ' -An eminent physiijfan-iDr Brown< '"■■ : Bequard,. of Paris-states the fact., accurately when he .says: v'ifhMdM"- ; ■'- ca nrpfeasion.are «o bound up in their v - " jse arid oohcoit that they ..- allow the diamond truths, of ibe up by iiorßpiw. eutiroJy outaido thoir rajiks/' We tjive a most,intore3ting ;i incident, 1 which- ■ II uslrates this lmportaiit tenth.' .'.' : The steamsnip " Concordia" of the Uonaldson Line, sailed from Glasgow - tor Baltimore in 188?, kvirtY en board •'.. • asaJremanamannamedEichardWado • of -Glasgow.. Ho had.boen a fireman'-"-' for fourteen years on rii low ships sail- . '^f™i;.Am(!riea lt Ohini»..ati(l:lridii.-.. r \. Ho hadtbonie the hard and exhausting .■■ - labour, andvhadvbeen healthy ani; ; ,-." strong On the trip wo now, name he"-: J begati for the firsttime to feelw'eak and "M ul.. Bis appetite failedandheßlißered trom drowsines3,.hoartburn, a bad taste jMh^'OMMu. / l^r^ril|r;of ; the bojrehv Sometimes • when at.work hehadattacksof giddiness. but supposed it to,bo .caused by the ■ heat of the'fire-room. Quite oftenhe was Bick and felt likwoinitini', and had v ome'pain iii theTjiead. /Later durinir ', heipassage hogrevrtworee, v »nd when reached Halifax he was placed ntheyiotoria.GeneralHospital.andthe. Ip sailed away';withou» him. The I OUBe surgeon Rave him soma powders tho vomiting, arid the next day- / the visiting physician pave him a mix- N J*-~ turn to take every four hours, that in two days Wade was bo muoh wono that thedoctora stopped both tho powders and the mixture. A month passed, the poor Woman gettlng.worse and worse. Then oame another doctor,' who wa to be visiting, physician f or the nox' Ore months. He gave other medicine but not much relief. Nearly all th time Wade suffered great torture ;h* digested nothing, throwing up all he ate. There was terrible pain in |the 'bowels, burning heat in the throat, heartburn, and racking hoadaohe.' The patient was now taking a mixture every four houre, powders one after eabh meal to digest, the food, operating pills one every night, *, and temperature pills two each night to JL stop the cold sweats. If drugs could cure him at all, Richard had'an idea that he took enough to do it, But oh the other hand pleurisy set in and the' melon took ninety ounea of'Mter fromhs right tide, and then told him he was sure to die. Fivo month more rolled by, and there was another change of visiting physicians. The new one gave' Wade a mixture which he mi madi Mm tremble . lik a leaf on« ; ret

this crisis Wades Sootch blood asserted itselt. He,refused to-stand anymore dosing, and told ttodoctors that if ho must die ho could die as well '\Mt| withoht them as. with thorn. By this time a oup of milk would tarn sour on his stomaoh, and lie tliore for days, Our friend from Glasgow was Jiko a wrook in a shoal, fast going to pieces. We will. let him tell the reitiof his experience ; ir the words in which he communicated to Impress w esays. "When I was In this state 2 ady whom I had never seen came to hehospital and talked with me. She proved to bo am angel uf mercy, for without her I should not now boalivo She told me 'of a medicine called Mother SeigelV Curative Syrup,' and brought me a bottle next day. I started with it, without consulting the doctor, ' and in only o ftw doj/a' %« I was ok{ of bed Mlliiij/or/iam andtggsforbreatfo.it. i-iiu From that timo, :koeping en with ' Mother Seigel'a great remedy, I got well fast, and wbb soon able to leave tho hospital and come home to Glasgow, now feel as if a was in another world and havo no illneas of any 'The above faota are calmly and impartially ■.atated, and, the reader may draw his own eonoiiisioh, We deemifc best to nso no names, :althougn Mr Wade gave them in his original deposition, His address' is. No. 244, Stob« orosa Street, Glasgow, where lottera will reaoh him- yV" Mm,