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Temuka Leader, Issue 2084, 12 August 1890, Page 1

IBN MONTHS’ SUFFERING- IN A HOSPITAL. There is an old sayipg that physicians are a class of men who pour drugs, of which they know little, into bodies of which they know less. This i* both true and nntruo 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 bs conceited. They don't like to bo 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 physienn—Dr. Brown-Saquard of Paris—elates the fact accurately when he ■ays : " The medical profession are eo 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 illustrates this important trntb. The steamship " Ooncorida,” of the Donald* son Line, sailed from Glasgow for Baltimore in 1887, having on board as a fireman a man named Biohard Wade, of Glasgow. He bad been a fireman for fourteen years on various ships sailing to America, China, and India 7 , He bad borne the hard and exhausting labour, and had been healthy and strong. On the ship 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 oostiveness and irregularity of the bowels. Sometimes when at work be had attacks of giddiness, but supposed it to be caused by the heat of the fire-room. Quite often be 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 powders to stop the vomiting, and the next day the visiting physician gave him a mixture to take every fopr hours. Within two days Wade was so much worse that the : doctors stopped both the powders and mixture, A month passed the poor fireman getting worse and worse. Then came another doctor, who was to be visiting nhysioian for the next five months. He gave other medicines, but not much relief. Nearly all that time Wade suffered great torture ; he digested nothing, throwing up all he ate. There, was terrible pain in the bowels, homing 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 night to stop the cold sweats. If diugs could cure him at all, Biohard bad an idea that he took enough to do it. But on the other band pleurisy set In and the doctors took ninety ounces of matter from his 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 stage Wade’s Scotch blood asserted itself. He refused to stand any more dolin' and told the doctors if be must die kz could die as well without them as w>‘’ a tJh emt jj_ this time a cup of milk would turn sour on his stoinahh, end lie there for days. Oar friend from Glasgow was like a wreck on a shoal, fast going to pieces, We will let him tell the rest of bis experience in the words iu which be communicated it'to the press. He says : " Whoa 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 bo 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’ lime I was out of bed calling for ham aud eggs, for breakfast. From that time, keeping on with Mother Seigel’a great remedy, I got well fast, and was soon able te 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 imparli.illy stated, and the reader may draw hi* own conclusion. Wo derm it best to use no names, although Mr Wade gave them in his original deposition. His address is No. f 44, Soobcr.oes Street, Glasgow, where letter* will reach him. Ediiob.