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Evening Star, Issue 8268, 14 July 1890, Page 1

TEN MONTHS' SUFFERING IN A HOSPITAL. lIIERE is an old saying that physicians are ■ a class of men who pour drugs, of which they know little, into bodies of which they know less. This is both true and untrue at the same time. There 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 bo conceited. They don't like to be beaten at their own trade by outsiders who have never studied medicine. They therefore pay, by their frequent failures the penalty of refusing instruction unless th teacher bears their own "hall mark." An eminent physician—Dr Blown Sequard, of Paris—states the fact accuiately when he says : " The medical profession are so bound up in their self-confidence and conceit that they allow the diamond truths of science to be picked up by persons entirely outside their ranks. '_ We give a most interesting incident which illus trates this important truth : The steamship Concordia, of the Donaldson Line, sailed from Glasgow for I'.altiinor in I.SS7, having on board a» ;* uiernau a man named Richard Wade, of Glasgow. He had been a fireman for fourteen years on various ships sailing to America, China, and India. He had borne the hard and exhausting labor, and had been healthy and strong. On the trip we now name he began for the first time to feel weak and ill. His appetite failed, and he suffered from drowsiocss. heartburn, a bad taste in the mouth, and coativeness ana irregularity of the bowels. Sometimes when at work be had attacks of giddiness, but supposed it to be caused by the heat of the fireroom. Quite often he was sick and felt like vomiting, and had some pain in the head. Later during the passage he grew worse, and when the ship reached Halifax he was placed in the Victoiia General Hospital, and the ship sailed away without him. Ihe hou«o surgeon gave him some powders to stop the vomiting, and the next day the viiiting physician gave him a mixture to take every four hours. Within two days Wade was so much worse that the doctors stepped both the powders and the mixture. A month passed, the poor fireman getting wers and worse.

Then came another doctor, who \v.ib to be visiting physician for the next five months. He gave other medicines, but not much relief, Nearly all that time Wado suffered great torture ; he digested nothing, throwing up all he ate. There was terrible pain in tho bowels, burning heat in tin- throat, heartburn, and racking headache. The patient was now taking a mixture every four hour*, powders one after each meal to digest the food, operating pills one every night, and temperature pills two each night to stop the cold sweats. If drugs could cure him at all, Richard had an idea that he took enough to do it. Hut, on the other hand, pleurisy set in, and the doctors too!,- ninety <mnecn of matter from his riijlit aide, and then told him ha was sure to die. Five months more rollad by, and there waa another change of visiting physicians. The new one gave Wade a mixture which he said made hivi trouble Ufa a ti.uf on a tree. At this crisis Wade's Scotch blood asserted itself. He refused to stand any more dosing, and told the doctors that if he must die he could die as well without them as with them. My this time a cup of milk would turn sour on his stomach and lie there for days. Our friend from Glasgow was like a wreck on a shoal, fast going to pieces. Wc will let him tell the rest of his experience in the words in which he mm municated it to the IVei-s. He says:—"When I was in this state a lady whom I had never seen came to the hospital and talked with me. She proved to be an angel of mercy, for without her I should not now be alive. She told me of a medicine called 'Mother SeUel's Curative Syrup,' and brought me a bottle next day. I started with it, without consulting the doctors, and in only a few days lihie I wis /oil of ltd ealliiifl for horn and crif/x foetireakfust. From that time, keeping on with Mother Seigcl's great remedy, I got well fast, and was soon able to loavc the botpital and come homo to Glasgow. I now feel as if I was in another world, and have no illness of any kind." The above facts arc calmly and impartially stated, and the reader may draw his own con elusion. We deem it best to use no names although Mr Wade gave them in his original deposition. His address is No. 'MI Stobcross street, Glasgow, where letters will reach him. EniToit.

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