Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1892-05-18
THE SARATOGA MIRACLE
FURTHER INVESTIGATED BY AN EX-
PRESS REPORTER.


PRESS REPORTER.
THE FACTS ALREADY STATED FULLY CoN-
FIRMED-lNTERvIEws WITH LEADING
PHYSICIANS WHO TREATED QUAINT
-THE MosT MARVELLOUS CASE
IN TIE History OF MEDI
CAL SCIENCE.
A few weeks ago an article appeared in
this paper copied from the Albany, n. Y,
journal, giving the particulars of one of the
most remarkable cures of the 10Th century.
The article was under the heading "A
Saratoga Co. Miracle" and excited such
widespread comment that another Albany
paper-the Express-detailed a reporter to
make a thorough investigation of the state
ments appearing in the Journals article.
The facts as elected by the Express reporter
are given in the following article, which ap-
peared in that paper on April 10th, and
makes one OF the most interesting stories
ever related:
A few weeks ago there was published in
the Albany Evening Journal the story of a
most remaI kable-indeed so remarkable as
to well justify the term "miraculous"-cure
OF "a severe case of lo0omotor ataxia, or
cree. ing paralysis, simply by the use of
Pink Pills for Pale People, and, in comply
ance with instructions, an Express Reporter
has been devoting some time in a critical
nv stigatIon of the real facts of the case.
The story OF the wonderful cure of Charles
A. QUAINT, of Galway, Saratoga County,
\. Y. as first told in the Journal has
been copied into hundreds if not thousands
Of other daily and weekly newspapers and
has created such a sensation throughout the
entire country that it was deemed a duty
due all the peope, and especially the thou
sands nf similarly atH ctpI that the
ments of the case as made in the Albany
journal, and copied into so many other
newspapers should, If true, be verified; or,
If false, exposed as an imposition upon public
creduiity.
The result of the Express reporters in
Sestig cations authorize him in saying that
the story of Charles \. Quants cure of
lOcOmotor ataxia by the use of Pink Pills
tor Pale People, popular remedy prepared
and put up by the DR.. Williams Medicine
Company, Morristown, n. Y, and Brock
vile, Ontario, Is TRUE, ami that all its
statements are not only justified but verified
by the fuller development of the further
facts OF the case.
Perhaps the readers of the Express are
not AL OF them fully familiar with the de
tails of this miraculous restoration to health
OF a man who after weeks and months of
treatment by the most skillful doctors in
two of the best hospitals in the State of New
York-the Roosevelt Hospital in New York
City and St. Peters Hospital in Albany
was dismissed from each as incurable and
because the case was deemed incurable, the
man was denied admission into several 9TH
ers to which application was made in his be-
half. The story as told by Mr. QUAINT him
self and published in the Albany Journal is
as follows:
My name is Charles A QUAINT; l am 81
Jears old; | was born in the village of Gal
way and excepting while travelling on busi-
ness AMI little while in Amsterdam, have
spent rsy whole life here. Up to about eight
years ago | had never been sick and was
then in perfect health. i was fully six feet
tall, weighed $50 pounds and was very
strong. For IL years was travelling sales
man for a piano and organ company and
had to do, or at least did do, great deal of
heavy lifting, got my meals very irregularly
and slept in enough spare beds in coun-
try houses to freeze an ordinary man to
death, or at least give him the rheuma-
tism. About eight years ago l began to
feel distress IN my stomach, and consulted
several doctors about 1t. They all said it
was dyspepsia, and for dyspepsia l was
treated by various doctors in different
places, ami took all the patent medicines /
could hear of that claimed TO be a cure for
dyspepsia. But l continued to grow grad
ually worse for four years. Then L began
to have lin in my back and legs and be-
came conscious that my legs were getting
weak and my step unsteady, and then l
staggered when 1 walked. Having received
no benefit from the use of patent medicines,
and feeling that | was constantly growing
worse, / then, upon advice, began the use OF
electric belts, pads and all the many different
kinds of electric appliances could hear OF,
and spent hundreds of dollars tor them, but
they did me no good. Here Mr.. QUAINT
showed the Journal reporter an electric suit
Of underwear, for which he paid Sl4.) In
the fall of 1888 the doctors advised a change
of climate, so | went to Atlanta, Ga, and
acted as agent for the Estey Organ Com
pany. While there ] took a thorough cleo
Iric treatment, but 1t only emed to aggra-
vate my disease, and the only relief l could
get from the sharp and distressing pains was
to take morphine. The pain was so in
tense at times that 1t seemed as though
could not stand it, and | almost longed for
death as the only certain relief. In Septem-
ber of 1883 my legs gave out entirely and my
lett eye was drawn to one side, 80 that haC
double sight and was dizzy. My trogble 81
affected my whole nervous system that
bad to give up business. Then returned +
New York and went to the Roosevelt Hos
pital, where for four months 1 was treatel
by specialists and they pronounced my cast
locomotor ataxia and incurable. After
had been under treatment by Prof. Star
and DIR. Ware for four months they told mt
they had done all they could for me. TheI
j went to the New York Hospital on Fiji
teenth street. where, upon examination, the!
said / was incurable and would not take m
in. At the Presbyterian Hospital they e1
amined me and told me the same thing. /
March, $780, l was taken to st. Peters Hos
| pital in Albany, where Prof. II. II. HUI
/ frankly told my wife my case was hopeless
that he could do nothing for me and that sb
| had better take me back home and save m,
| money. But [ wanted TO make a trial o
| Prof. Huns famous skill and | RENAME
Ns,1-
cured no benefit. All this time l had beel
growing worse. l had become entirel
paralyZed from my waist down and ha
partly lost control of my hands. The pai
was terrible; my legs felt as though the.
We're freezing and my stomach would not re
tain food, and fell away to l2O pounds
In the Albany Hospital they put seventeen
big burns on my back one day with red no
irons and after a few days they put fsurteel
more burns on and treated me with eleC
tricity, but | got worse rather than better
lost control of my bowels and water, and
upon advice of the doctor, who SAT-
d there was no hope for me, | was brough
home, where it was thought that death woul
soon come to relieve me of my sufferings
Last September, while in this helpless an
suffering condition, a friend OF mine II
Hamilton, Ont, called my attention TO tn
statement of one John Marshall, whose cas-
had been similar to my own, and who ha,
Pills for Pale People. In this case Mr.. Mar
shall, who is a prominent member of tn
Royal Templars of temperance, had, afte
four years of constant treatment by tht
most eminent Canadian physicians, beer
pronounced incurable, and paid the SlO'
total disability claim allowed by the order II
such cases. Some months after Mr.. Mar
shall began a course of treatment with DIR
Williams Pink Pills, and after taking some
Is boxes was fully restored to health
thought | would try them, and my wife SEN
for two boxes of the pills, and l took then
accor ling TO the directions on the wrapper
on each box. For the first few days the
cold baths were pretty severe as l was sc
very weak, but l continued to follow in
structions as to taking the pills and tbs
treatment, and even before l had used uL
the two boxes of the pills l began to fee
beneficial results from them. My pains wer'
not so bad. felt warmer; my head fel
better; my food began to relish and agree
with me; | could straighten up; the feeling
began to come back into my limbs; | be
pan tO he able TO get about on crutches,