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ten months' swffebing in a hospital; -There an old Baying that physioianß are a olass of men who pour drugs, of whioh they know little, into bodies of which they know Us?. This is both true and untrue at the f Brae time. There are good and poor lawyers, and good and poor doctors. The trouble with thiso mcMcal gentlemen as a profession is that they are olunnish, and apt to be conceited. They don't like to ba beaten at their own trade by outsiders who have never studied medicine. Tbey therefore p»y, by their frequont failures, the penalty of refusing instruction unl<sa the teacher bears their own "Hal, Mark." An eminent physician— Dr Brcwn-Scquard, of Paris— states the fact accurately when he says : " The modioal profession are so bound up in their gelf-confidence and conceit that tbey allow the diamond truths of science to be picked up by persons entirely outside their ranks, " We give a most interesting incident whioh illustrates this important truth. The steamship " Concordia," of the Donaldson Line, sailed from Glasgow for Baltimore in 1887, having on board as a fireman a man named Richard Wade, of Glasgow. He had been a fireman for four- j teen years on various ships sailing to ! America, China, and India. He had borne the hard and exhausting labour, 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 drowsiness, heartburn, a bad taste in the mouth, and costiveneps and irregularity of the bowels. Sometimes when at work he had attacks of giddiness but supposed it to be caused by the heat of the fire-room. Quite often he was sick and felt like vomiting, and had some pain in the head. Lat r during the passage he grew worse, and when the ship reached Halifax he was placed in the Victoria General Hospital, and the ship Bailed away without him. The house surgeon gave him some powders to stop the vomiting, and the next day the visiting physician gave him a mixture to take every four hours. Within two days Wade was so much worse that the doctors stopped both the powders and the mixture. A month passed, the poor fireman getting worse and worse. Then came another doctor, who was to be visiting physician for the next five months. He gave other medicines, but not much re-> lief. Nearly all that time Wade suffered great torture ; he digested nothing, throwup all he ate. There was terrible pain in the bowels, burning heat in the throat, heartburn, and racking headache. The I patient was now taking a mixture every four honrs, powders one after each meal to digest the food, operating pills one every night, and temperature pills two each night ito stop the cold sweats. If drugs could I cure him at all, liichard had an idea that he took long enough to do it. But on the other hand pleurisy set in and the doctors t oh ninety ounces of matter from Ms right side, and then told him he was sure to die. Five mouths more rolled by, and there was another change of visiting physicians. The new one gave Wado a mixture which he said mada him tremble like a leaf 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 ac with them. By this time a cup of milk would turn 6our on hia stomach, and lie there for days. Our friend from Glasgow was like a wreok on a shoal, fast going to pieces. We will let him tell the rest of his experience in the words in whioh he communicated it to the press. 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 on angel of mercy, for without her I should not now be alive. She told me of a medicine called ' Mother Seigel s Curative Syrup,' and brought me a bottle next day. I started with it, without consulting the doctors, and in only a few days' time I was out of bed cal; ling for ham and eggs for hreakfast. From that time, keeping ou with Mother Seigel's great remedy, I got well fast, and was soon able to leave the hospital 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 calmly and impartially stated, and the reader may draw his own conclusion. We deem it best to use no name 3, although Mr Wade gave them in his original deposition, Hia address is No. 244, Stobcross Street, Glasgow, where letters will reach him, Editor,

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