TEN MONTHS' SUFFERING IN A HOSPITAL.

Taranaki Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 8800, 9 June 1890, Page 4

TEN MONTHS' SUFFERING IN A HOSPITAL.

Thebk is an old saying that physicians are a class of men who poar 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 poot doctors. The trouble with these medical gentlemen as a profession ;s; s that they are clannish, and apt to be 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 the teacher bears their own " Hall Mark."

An eminent physician — Dr. BrownSequard, of Paris— states the fact accurately when he says : "The medical profession are bo boond up in their selfconfidence and conceit; that they allow the diamond truths of science to be pioked 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 j 1887, having on board as a fireman a man named Richard Wade, of Glasgow. He had been fireman for fourteen years on various ships sailing to America, Chin«, and India. He had borne 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. Hh appetite failed and be suffered froo. drowsineßß, heartburn, a bad taste in the mouth, and costiveness and irreguliarity of the bowels. Sometimes when at work he hod 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 sotre pain in the head. Later during the passage be grew worse, and when the ship reached Halifax he was placed in the Victoria General Hospital, and the sh'p sailed away without him. The bouse surgeon gave him some powdeis to stop the vomiting, and the next day the visiting physician gave him a mixtuie to take every four hours. Within two days Wade was so much worse that tue ('octors stopped both tbe powders and the mixture. A month passed, and the poor fireman getting worse and worse*

Then came another doctor, who was to be vißitiHg physician for the next five months. Ho 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 bowel?, burning heat in the throat, heartburn, and rakinsr 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 drugs could cure him at all, Riohard had an idea that he took enough to do it. But on the other band pleurisy set in und the doctors took ninety ounces of matter out of his right side, and then told him ne was suro to die. Five months more rolled by, and there was another change of visiting physicians. The new oue gave Wade a mixture which be said made Mm 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 ns well without them as with them- By this tit&e a cup of milk would turn sour on bis stomach, and lie there for dayfe. Our friend from Glasgow was like a wreck on a Bhou), fast going to pieces. We will 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 hoepitit l and talked with me. She proved to be an angel o£ mercy, for without her I should not now be alivo. She told me of a medicine called * Mother Seigel's Curative Syrup, 1 and brought me a bottle next day. I started with it, without consulting the doctors, and in only a few days 1 time I was out of bed calling for ham and eggs for breakfast. From that time keeping on with Mother Seigel'a 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 arej calmly recorded and impartially stated, and the reader may draw his own conclusion. We deem it best to use no names, although Mr Wade gave them in bis original disposition. Uja address is No. 244, Stoboross Street, Glasgow, where letters will reach himl Editor . THE GREAT REMEDY FOR PAIN. ST^JACOBS OIL, WHAT IT" IS. SIX STANDARD VHTUiiIS. lot. It is in one word a cure , it is not merely a relief, and in no sense a cure-all; it i> the product of scientific research. 2nd. It strengthens while it soothes and subdues, heals, and oures; it literally conquers pain. 3rd. It* effects are ourative and permanent to the whole group of muscular miseries and nervous agonies. 4th. It does not merely irritate the outer surface, nor does it merely soften or relax a constricted muscle. To its specific action a superior curative virtue is superdded. sth. It penetrates deeply but gently; searshingly and surely, seeking the pain spot in an effort to conquer. 6th. Each constituent of the formula has a recognised intrinsic virtue to serve most surely the cure of pain. SOLD BY DRUGGISTS AND DEALERS EVERYWHERE.

TARTLING EVENT IN|A VILLAGE : To the Editor of "Saturday Night," Birmingham. I recently came into possession of certain ! facts of so remarkable a nature, that lam ' sure you will be glad to assist in making ' them public. The following letters weie ' shown to me, and I at once begged permission to copj them for the Press. They ' come from a highly responsible source, and may be receiveJ without question. '• MESSAGE from George James Gostling, L.D.S., R.C.5.1., Ph.C.L, Licentiate in Pharmacy and Dental Surgeon. Stowmarket, July 18, 1889. I To Mr. White, The enclosed remarkable core should, I thint, be urinted and circulated in Suffolk. The statement was entirely voluntary, and 18 genuine ;n; n fact and detail. G. J. G. '•To the Proprietors of Mother Se'gel's I Syrup. " Gentlemen,— The following remarkable cure was related to me by the husband. Mary Ann Spink ; of Finborougb, Suffolk, was for over twenty years afflicted with iceumatism and neuralgia, and although comparatively a young woaian at the time she was attached (she is now fifty), pha was compelled, in consequence, to wate with two sticks, and even then with difficulty and pain. About a year and a half aso she was advised to try Mother Seigel's Syrup, and after taking three bott'es and two boxes of Seigel's Operating Pilis, the use of her limbs were restored, and she is now able to walk three miles to Stowmarket with ease, frequently doing the distance in thiee-quartars of an hour. Any sufferer who doubts this story can fully ascertain its truthfulness Dy paying a visit to the village and enquiring of the villagers who will certify to the fasts. "Appended is the husband's signature the statement. (R Spink.) 14 G. J. Gostling, 11 Ipswich Street, " Stowmarket." This is certainly a very pitiable case, and the huppy cure wrought by this simple but powerful remedy, must move the sympathy of all hearts in a comiroa pleasure. Tnis poor woman had been a cripple for tweuty of her best years ; years in which she should bave hod such comfort aad enjoyment as life has to give. But, on the contrary, she was a miserable burden to herself and a source of care to her friends. Now at an age when' the rest of us are growing feeble, she, in a manner, renews her youth and utmost begins a now existence. What a blessing aod what a woiider it is I No one who knows her, or who reads her story, but will bo thankful that the good Lord has enabled men to discover a remedy capable of bringing about a cure that reminds vs — we speak it reverently— of the age of miracles. It should be explained that this moat remarkable cure is due to the fact that rheumatism is a diseasa of the blood. Indigestion, constipation, and dyspepsia cause the poison from the partially digested food to enter the circulation, and the blood deposits it in the joints and muscles. This is rheumatism. Seigel's Syrup corrects the digestion, and so stops the further formation vu v deposit of the poison. It then removes from the system the poison already there. It is not a cureall. It does its wonderful work entirely by its mysterious action upon the digestive organs. But when we remember that nine-tenths of our ailments arise in those organs, we can understand why SeigeFs Syrup cures so many diseases that appear to be so different in their nature. In other words rheumatism and neuralgia are bat symptoms of indigestion, constipation, and dyspepsia. PETTY WORRIES. Tub heaviest strokes of misfortune are borne by sooio men without w»ncing ; they have nerve enough at least to hide their troubles from the public gaze and bear a brave front to thb outside world, no matter how great their actual buffering may be. But the petty worries of life are ones which try even the strongest natures, and break down the most determined wills. The giant in nerve, who can bear aiofcnees, pain, sorrow, suffering, and poverty without any visible sign of distress, will break down sooner or later under a suoceesion of petty annoyances — the mosquito bites of life — which he can neither guard against nor avenge. There is no cure for soaoe of them, but for many there is an alleviator easily obtainable, cheap and certain. St. Jacob's Oil is the recognised conqueror of pain, and without a sound body it is astonishing how' trival all other afflictions seems, and with what comparative ease they are shaken off. The man who oan illustrate the old p. -o verb by bearing the sufferings of his neighbors with foititude, may bear his own equally as well by the aid of this wonderful remedy.

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