Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-11-19


porter q few days ago March 81, 1892, called
on DR.. Allen Starr at his office. No. % West
Twenty-eighth street, New York City. DR..
Starr is house physician of the Roosevelt
Hospital, situated corner Ninth avenue and
Fifty-ninth street. In reply to inquiry he
said he remembered the case of Mr. QUAINT
very we'll and treated him some, but that he
was chiefly treated and under the more es-
pecial care of DR.. Ware. He said he regarded
this case as he did all cases Of locomotor
ataxia as incurable. In order that our re-
porter might get copy of the history Of the
case of Mr. QUAINT from the hospital record
he very courteously gave him letter OF
which the following is copy:
DR.. NJ. A. Starr, o West Forty-eighth
street. office hours 9 to 12 A. NJ, New York,
March 81, 1S92-Dear Mr.. Vought: If you
have any record of a locomotor ataxia by
the name of QUAINT, who says he came to the
clinic or years ago, No. LOST, of the O. D.
Dept, Roosevelt, sent to me from Ware, will
you let the bearer know. If you have no
record send him to Roosevelt Hosp.
Yours, STARR.
By means of this letter access to the rec
ords was permitted and a transcript of the
history of Mr.. Quant's case made from them
as follows
'No. 4,O37 Admitted September 16, 1889,
u. 70
Married. HoDoken."
"History of the case:-Dyspepsia for past
four or five years. About IA months partial
loss of power and numbness in lower ex-
tremities. Girdling sensation about abb
domen. (November 90, 1889, not improved.
external strobismus of left eye and dilata-
tion of lett eye.) Some difficulty in passing
water at times; no headache but some dizzi-
ness; alternate diarrhBa and constipation;
partial ptosis past two weeks in left eye.
'Ord. R. F. Bi pep and Soda"
These are the marked symptoms of a Sc
we're case of locomotor ataxia. "And DR..
Starr said a case with such marked symp-
toms could not be cured, and QUAINT, who
was receiving treatment in the out-patient
department., was given up as incurable."
"There never was a case recovered in the
world" said DR.. Starr. And then said: CDR.
Ware can tell you more about the case as
QUAINT was more under his personal treat.
ment. am surprised he said, "that the
man is alive, as 1 thought he must be dead
long ago"
Our reporter found DR.. Edward Ware at
his office. No. 26l West Ninety-third street.
New York. He said: 81 have very distinct
recollections of the QUAINT case. 1t was
very pronounced case. I treated him about
eight months. This was in the early sum-
mer of 1890. 1 deemed him incurabIe, and
thought him dead before now. Imagine my
surprise when received a letter from him
about two weeks ago telling me that he was
alive, Was getting we'll and expected soon to
be fully recovered"
"What do you think doctor, was the cause
of his recovery
"That is moro than know. QUAINT says
he has been taking some sort of pills and
that they have cured him. At all events,
Y1od rhn fall &c
for his was a bad case and he was great
sufferer"
DR.. Theodore R. Tuttle, of 3l9 West
Eighteenth street, to whom our reporter is
indebted for assisting courtesies, said of
locomotor ataxfa- Il have had several
cases of the disease in the course of my
practice. 1 will not say that it is incurable,
but 1 will say it is not deemed durable by
any remedies known to the medical pro-
fession."
After this successful and conf1rmatory
investigation in New York, our reporter,
Saturday, April 2, 1892 visited st. Peters
Hospital, in Albany, corner of Albany and
Ferry streets. He had a courteous recep-
tion by Sister Mary Pnilomena, the sister su.
perior OF St. Peters Hospital, and when told
the object of his visit said she remem-
bered the case of poor Mr.. QUAINT very dis
tinctly. Said she: at was u very distress
ing case and excited my sympathies much.
Poor fellow, he couldn't be cured and had to
go home in a terrible condition of helpless
ness and suffering" The house physician,
on consulting the records of St. Peters Hos
pital, said he fonnd only that Charles A.
QUAINT entered the hospital March IA, 1890,
was treated by DR.. Henry Hun, assisted by
DR.. Van Derveer, who was then, $780, al the
head of the hospital, and that his case be-
ing deemed not possible of cure, he left the
hospital and was taken to his home, as he
supposed, to die.
Such is the full history Of this most re.
markable case of successful recovery from
a heretofore supposed incurable disease,
and after all the doctors had given him up
by the simple of DR.. Williams Pink
Pills for Pale People. Truly it is an inter-
esting story of a most miraculous cure of a
dreadful disease by she use of this popular
remedy.
A further investigation revealed the fact
that DR.. Williams Pink Pills are not a
patent medicine in the sense in which that
term is usually understood, but are q sci
entific preparation successfully used in gem
eral practice for many years before being
offered to the public generally. They con-
tain in a condensed form all the elements
necessary to give new life and richness to
the blood, and restore shattered nerves
They are an unfailing specific for such
diseases of locomotor ataxia, partial paraly-