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South Canterbury Times, Issue 6243, 16 June 1890, Page 3

JjtitQ AtlveK*t3s©memts s ■mmm a - GARRISON ORDER. A MUSTER PARADE of the TIMARU X3L GARRISON BAND will be held on THURSDAY NEXT, 19th inst., at 7.30 p,m. Review Order. Every member must attend with all Government or Garrison Properly on issue to him. Any man sick or absent from Timaru must send in for inspection his Uniform, Instrument, Arms, and any other Government or Garrison in his possession, 0. S. BAILEY, Lieut. Oolonel, Commanding South Canterbury District. JJi OR MORNING BEVERAGE TRY DAYID OWERS’ Mild Cured Bacon, AND Fresh Ground Coffee. COFFEE is Roasted and Ground on the '[Premises and CANNOT BE BEAT. DAVID OWERS, THE PEOPLE’S GROCER, Stafford Street. GOVERNMENT LIFE INSURANCE DEPARTMENT. LOANS ON MORTGAGE. FROM time to time a limited portion of the funds is lent on first mortgage of freehold security, with option of repayment by fixed Instalments, spread over 12,15, or 20 years. Half-yearly Payment for each £IOO. Period of Loan— £ s. d. Tu’elve years ... ... 64 7 Fifteen years ... ... 58 9 Twenty years ... ... 413 8 Loans repayable by instalments whereby principal and interest are both liquidated within a given time, and on terms of a most favourable character, present marked advantages to settlers and others. . . The borrower may, before the expu-y of the full period, redeem the loan, with or without notice, on terms which can be ascertained at this office, or at any of the offices of this Department, where also forms of application can be obtained. For full particulars as to loans apply-to the Head and Branch Offices and Post Offices. F. W. FRANKLAND, F.X.A., 1] Commissioner and Govt. Actuary TEN MONTHS’ SUFFERING IN AN HOSPITAL.

There ia an old saying that physicians are a class of men -who dour 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 be conceited. They don’t like obe 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 the teacher bears their own “ Hall Mark.” An eminent physician—Dr Brown-Sequard, of Paris—states the case accurately when he says : —“ The medical profession are so bound up in their own self-confidence and conceit that they allow the.diamond truths_of science to bo picked up by persons entirely outside their ranks.” We give a most interesting incident, which 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 Bichard 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 labour, and ha’d 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 h suffered from drowsiness, heartburn, a bad taste in the mouth, and costivoness, 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 ho 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 Victoria General Hospital, and the ship sailed away without him. The house surgeon gave him some powder to stop the vomiting, and the next day the visiting surgeon 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 relief. Nearly all that time Wade suffered great torture 5 he digested nothing, throwing up all ho ate. There was terrible pain in the bowels, burning heat in the throat, heartburn and racking headache. The patient was now taking a mixture every four hours, powders one after each meal to digest the food, operating pills one every night, and temperature pills two each nights to stop the cold sweats. If drugs could cure him at all, Bichard had an idea that he took enough to do it. But on the other hand pleurisy set in and the doctors took ninety ounces of matter from Ms right side, and then told him he was sure to die. Five months more rolled by, and there was another change of visiting physicians. The new one gave Wade a mixture which he said made 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 as with them. By 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. We will let him tell the rest of his experience in the words in which 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 an angel of mercy, for without her I should not now be alive. Sbe 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 fern days' time I was out of bed calling for ham aud eggs for breakfast. From that time, keeping on 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 names, j although Mr Wade gave them in his original | deposition. His address is No. 244, Stobcrosa Street, Glasgow, where letters will reach him. I EpixOß.