TEN MONTHS' SUFFERING IN A HOSPITAL.

Taranaki Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 8755, 17 April 1890, Page 4

TEN MONTHS' SUFFERING IN A HOSPITAL.

T iiisrb is un old saying that physicians aro a class of tnon who pojr drugs, of which they know liltle, into bodies of which they know loss. TIII3 is both true and untrue at the same time. There aie good and poor lawyers, and good and pool doctors. The trouble with thoso medical gentlemen as a profession is that thfty are clunnial), and apl to be conccitod. 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 tho teacher bears their own '' Hall Mark." An eminent physician — Dr. Brown Stquanl, of Paris — states the fact accurately when he says : "The medical profession ure so bound up in their selfoonliience and conceit that they allow tho diamond truths of science to be picked up by persons entirely outside their pinks." We gi\e a most interesting incideut, which illustrates this important truth. The steamship "Uoncordia," of the Donaldson Line, sailed from Glasgow for Baltimore in 1887, luuin.> ou board as a fireman a man named Richard Wade, of Glasgow. He had been fireman for fourteen years on various ehipa sailing to America, Chin", and India. He had borue hard and exhausting labor, and had been healthy and strong. On tho trip we now name he began for the first tiuio to feel weak and ill. His appetite failed and he suffered from drowsiness, heartburn, a bad taste in the mouth, and costiveness and irreguliarity 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. Later during thepabsagb 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 housesurgeon gave him some powders to stop the vomiting, and the next day tho visit ing physician gave him a niixtuio to take every four hours. Within two days Wade was so much worse thut the doctors stopped both the powders and the mixture. A month passed, and the poor fireman getting worse and worse* Then came another doctor, who was to be visitißg physician for tho next five months. He gave other medicines but not much relief. Nearly all that time Wa'ie suffered «reat torture ; he digestod nothing, throwing up nil ho ate. There was terrible pain in the bowel*, burning heat in the throat, heartburn, and raking headache. The patient was now taking a mixture every four hours, powders one after each meal to dii;eßt the food, operating pills one every night, and temperature pills two each night, to stop Iho cold sweats. If drugs could cure him at all, Uichard had an idea that he took enough to do it. But on the other hand pleurisy set in i.nd tlie doctors took ninety ounces of matter out of his right side, and then told him ho was sure tv die. Five months more rolled by, and there was another change of visiting phyßicianH. The new oue gave Wade a roixturo which ho said made him tremble Wee a leaf on a tree. At this crisis Wade's Scotch blood assertod itself. He refused to stand anj moro doling, and told tho doctors that if he miiHi die ho could die aa well without them as with them ]}y this titt>e a cup of milk would turn sour on his stomach, nnd lie thoro for dayb. Our friend from Glasgow was like a wreck on a shoal, fast going to pieces. We will tell the rest of his experience in theworde in which he communicated it to the press. He says : (( When I was in this state a lady whom I had never seen caite to the hospital and talked with me. She proved to be an angel of mercy, f u r without her I should not now be alive. She told me of 11 medicine called 'Mother Seige lV Curative Sjrup,' and brought me a bottle next day. I started with it, without connultin ' the doctors, and in only a few days' time I uxis out of bed calling for tutm and Offya for breakfast. From that time keeping on with Mother Stigul'a gnat remedy, 1 got WfH" font, and was soon able to Ifu vo tho honpital and oomo home to Glasgow. 1 now feel an if I whb in unother world, and have no illness of i any kind."

The above fnote aro oalinly recorded and impartially Btatod, and the reader may draw his own conolusion. We deem it best to übo no nnuico, although Mr Wade L-ave them ia bio oii^ioul diapoaitiun. Lie nddreus ib No, 244, Stoborow Struct, Glasgow, v\hue latura vv ill tough tow tan»,