TEN MONTHS' SUFFERING IN A HOSPITAL.

Bruce Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 2177, 24 June 1890, Page 4

TEN MONTHS' SUFFERING IN A HOSPITAL.

There is an old saying that physicians are v class of men who pour drui>B, of which ihjy know little, into bodies of which they know l« j ss. Thia is l><>tli i rue and untrue at the same titan, There are good and poor Uwyer*, and good and poor doctors. The trouMrf with these medical gentlemen as a profession is that they Hre cLunish, and apt to he conceited. Th< y don't- lilcn to be beaten at their own trade by outsiders who h ive never studied medicine. Ttiey therefore puv, by their iVrqueut failures, the penulty ot refusing lust ruction uubss the teacher bears their own " ELtll M*rk."

An eminent Dhysici.m — Dr Browu Sequard, of Puria — stales thn fact accurately when he snyvS : "The mmlical profession are so bound up in their selfconfidence and conceit thai they allow the diamond truths of scieuce to be picked up by pursons entirely ontsiue, their ranks." We give a most interesting incident, which illustrated the important truth. The steamship " Concor lia," of th^ Donaldson Live, sailed from Glasgow f r Baltimore in 1887, having on board as a fireman a mau named Richard Wade, of Glasgow, He had been a d reman for fourteen years on various shi|)3 sai ing to America, China, and India. He had borne the h-.rd and extiaiiHiiug Libor, and had been healthy and strong. Un the trip we now name he began for the first time to feel weak and ill. His nppe.iite failed, Hnd he suffered from diowsiness, heartburn, a bad taste in tuo mouth, and coadven-ss and irregularity of the bowels. Scmeiimes when at work he h d attHcks <«f giddiness, hut supposed it to b« ciused by tbe beat of the fire-r- om. Quite often he wasßickaud feitlike vomiting, and had some pain in the head. Later during the passage he grew woive, and when the uhip reached H«lif -x he w«s pUced iv the Victoria General Hospital, «nd the ship sailed away witlioiit. him. The house surgeon gave him some powdeis

to stop the vomiting, and the next day che visiting physician gave him a mixrut c to be taken every four hours. Within two days Wado was so much vvorse that the ductors stopped both the powders and the mixture. A month pissed, the poor fireman getting worse and worse.

Tlipii c*me another doctor, who was to be visiting physiciau for the next five months, lie gave other medicines, but nit much relief. Nearly all that time W\ide tsuSered great torture • he digested nothing, throwing up all he ate. Then jvhb terrible paia ia the bowels, burnng neat in tlie throat, heartburn, auii racking headache. The patient waß now uking a mixture eveiy four hours, powlers one aher each meal to digest tbe f'oodj operating pills one every night, md temperature pills two each night t< sti|j the eld bweitß. If drugs could cure him at all, pichard had an id^a ■ hit ho tO'>k enough to do it. But <m the otner hand p euriisy set in and the doctors took ninety ounces of matter from his right side, m<d then tod him m was burw to die. FiVr> mom us m >ie rolled by, and there was another eh <n^f of visiting physicians. The n«w oiu urive Wade a mixtme wliicli he sai«i made him tremble like a leaf on a tree

it Lhig otiiW Wad 'a Soulcb blouu a-serted itself. He refusnd to stand my more doling, and told the doctor* hat if lib must die he cuuli die as wel. without them us with tlieua. By this irao a cup ot milk would turn sour ou his stomach, and lie there for days. Oil' fri« j nd from GUsj;O\v was like a wr«ck on a shoal, fast going io pinces. Wr will let him tell the r«.-t of his experience in the words in which he cocnuiuuiCctled it to ihe pre^s.

He says : " When I was in this siate a tady whom 1 had never seen came to the hospital and talked with m«. She proved to be an angel of mercy, lor without her X shouid not now be alive. She io'd me of a inbdicine called

• Mother Siigel'a Curative Syrup,' and brought me a bottle next day. I started with it, wuhout consulting tbe doctors, md in only a few days' time I was out of bed calling for ham and eggs for breakfast. iJY<mi that time, keeping un with Mother Sei-el'd great remedy, I got w«ii fa-t, and was sawn able to leave he hospiul and come home to Glasgow. I now feel as if I was in another world, and have no illness of any kind."

The above facts are culinly and impartially stated, aud the reader may ■lfdw his owu couclu->iou. We deom it best to use uonnniHS, although Mr Wade i^Hve them in hia original deposition. Hi-} address is No. 24-1, Citoocross Stieet, G-Idßjjow, where letters will reach him. Editor.