EN MONTHS SUFFERING IN A HOSPITAL.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3600, 29 August 1890, Page 4

EN MONTHS SUFFERING IN A HOSPITAL.

[ is an old s yin ? ' that pbysioiam ,anj. d class of men whu pour I ," ru 8 9 « M. which . <hey - know - littlo.. into bodies of which they know. ■: . • 18 .» •• both true .and un» I ruo at tho same time. •.There aref good and poor lawyers, and soed nnd 1 poor doctors. Tho troublo with these medical, gentlemen as a profession ia > ' that they are clannish, and apt to bo conceited, They dim't like to be beaten too oV "' J^ e , o'lteldora who haye never studied niedioine. Thov {SfTiV Pay ' , :thoi F :frqufint faujtres; the penalty of refuaini instrue"HaHMark^ 0 t ' lß ' r oWtt Br ° m " Sequard, of Paris-states the fact • accurately when,he. says; "Tho medibound up in thoir • an oonceifc that thoy , allow the diamond, truths,, of science A be. picked . U p by poisons en-' tiroly outoido their ranks.": ,We eivo ?1 utetes\tiV 3 ' ing ta i t Cldent| ffllich ThMteamsnip of'the Donaldson Line, sailed from Glasgow tor Baltimore m iBB7j having on board ■'< asa breman a man named Richard Wade ? vWfft .Ho had been a tireman : for fourteen years oh varitius ships sailS* ohi 'ia . and India, He had borno the hard and exhausting - abour, and .had beon healthy v and . ' On the trip wo now namo he . 1 beganfo the first time to feel weak and A ui. ; flis appetite faUed and ha sußered from drowsmesj, heartburn,' a bad taßto' in tliB; mouth; and costiveneas andirregularity of the bowels. Sometimes .when at work he had attacks of giddiness but supposed it 'to bo .caused by the Quite often ho wck and felt like vomiting and had onie pain in the head. Later during he passage ho grew' worse, and when . B nlhoYictbri Q H ''m h ° Waß P ,aoei d sailed- away without hip. The use surgeon'Ravo him some powders to stop the vomiting, and the next day the visiting physician pave him a mix- 1 , turn to take every four hours, that in >. two ..days was so much worse that ' ■ thedoctors stopped > b'oth the powders ' and Ujo mixture. A mouth'passed, the poor hreman getting worse and worse. . J" on another doctor, who wa w be visiting physioian for the net five months. Ho gavo other medicine but not much relief. Nearly all th time Wade suffered groat torture: hi digoated nothing, throwing up all heato. incro was torriblo pain in |the bowels, burning heat in the throat, heartburn, and racking headache. Tho patient was now taking a mixture ovory four hours, ■ | powders one after each meal to digest the food, operating pills one every night, ■> nnd teniporaturo pills two each night toV I Bt °P tho cold sweats. If drugs couldT I a"' Bichard had ah idea I that, lie took enough to do it. But on the other hand pleurisy set in and the doctors took ninety ,omm of mtler from/us right side, and then told him. he was suro.to die. Fiva month more rolled by, and thero was another cliango of visiting physicians. ; The new one gave Wade a mixture which he said madihivltrmbk like a leaf om

this crisis Wades Scotch blood asserted itself. ,He refused to stand any moro dosing, and told tho doctors that if ho must die ho' could die as well . without them as with them, .By this 'k tune a cup of milk would turn sour on 1 ha atoraach, and lie there for daj s. Our friend from Glasgow was ljke a wreck in a shoal, fast going to pieces. We will lot him tell the rest of his oxporieuca ir tho words iit which he communicated o Ita cress

» e says, "ffhon I, was in this state 5 ady whom I had never seen camo to ho hospital and talked with me- Bho provod to be an angel of moroy, foe without her I should not ,now ,be alivo Sho told me of a medicine called Mother Seigel's Curative Syrup, 1 and ' ' brought me a bottle ntat day. I started ■ : with it, without consultine the doutor, • "<■ and t'nonlt/ a few days' timelm out of ■ ,v; bed catling fir ham and eggs for breakfast,** From that tinio, . keeping -on Mother Seigel's great remedy, I got well fast, and was soon able to leave tho hospital and come home to Glasgow, now feel as if a was' in another world and have no illness of any kindi" _ Tho above facts are calmly and impartially ,stated, and the reader may draw his own conclusion. 'We deem ik boßt to use no names,' although Mr Wade gave them in his original deposition. His address is No. 244, Stoborosa -Street, Glugow - where i letters will reach himKpuon,