Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1892-05-07

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To verify Mr.. Quantrs statement our re.
porter few days ago, March 81, 1892,
called on DR.. Allen Starr at his Office, No.
% West TwentY-eighth street, New York
city. DIR. Starr is house physician of the
Roosevelt hospital, situated corner of Ninth
avenue and Fifty-ninth street. In reply to
inquiry he said he remembered the case of
Mr.. QUAINT very well and treated him some
but that he was chiefly treated and under
the more especial care of DIR: Ware. He said
he regarded this case as he did all casee of
lOcomotor ataXia as incurable. In order
that our reporter might get a copy of the
history Of the case Of Mr.. QUAINT from the
hospital record he very courteously gave
COPY
DR. NJ. A. Starr, % West Forty .eighth
street. Office hours 8 to II a. m, New York,
March 3lst 1s92.-Dear DR.. Vought:
If you have any record of loco
motor ataXia 5y name of QUAINT, who
ago, No. 14.037, Of the o. d. Dept,
Roosevelt, sent 10 me from Ware, will you
let the bearer know. II you have no record
send him to Roosevelt Hosp.
Yours, STARR.
By means Of this letter access to the rec.
ords was permitted and transcript of the
history OF MIR. Quant's case made from them
as follows:
mo. 14OS7. Admitted September 18th.
1889, Charles A. QUAINT, aged "a years.
Born U. S. Married. Hoboken."
History of the case:-Dyspepsia for past
four or five years. About IA months partial
loss of power and numbness in lower ex-
tremities. GirdlinY sensation about abdo-
men. (November 10Th. 1889; not improved;
cfrohisn,n Of ~ ond dilato.
ton Of the left eye.) Some difficulty in
passing water at times; no headache but
some dizziness; alternate diarrhOea and
cons ipation; partial ptosls past two weeks
in left eye.
"Ord. r. F. 81 pep. and Soda"
These are the marked symptoms Of q
severe case of locomOtor ataXia. "And DR..
Starr said 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 case recovered in the
world" said DIR. Starr. And then said:
"Dr. Ware can tell you more about the case.
as NJ. QUAINT was under his more personal
treatment. l am surprised" he said, "that
the man is alive, as thought he must be
dead long ago."
Our reporter found DR.. Edward Ware at
his Office, No. 1872 West Ninety-third street,
New York. He said: II have very dis
tinct recollections of the QUAINT case. 1t
was very pronounced case. I treated
him about eight months. This was in the
early summer of 1890. 1 deemed him in
and thought him dead before now.
Imagine my surprise when I received .
letter from him about two weeks ago tell.
ing 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"
hat d. fI,0, II n,1on
ne has been taking some sort of pills and
that they have cured him. At all events [
I'm glad the poor fellow is getting well, for
MS was a bad case and he was . great
DR.. Theodore r. Tuttle, of $40 West
Eighteenth street, to whom our reporter IL
for S.n sa ssa Of
cases Of this disease in the course of my
practice. will not say that it 10 incurable,
but never knew of . case to get well; but
will say it is not deemed durable by any
remedies known to the medical profession"
After the successful and confrmatory in.
restigation in New York, our reporter,
April ., 1892, visited st. Peters
Ferry streets. He had courteous recep-
ion by Sister Mary PhilomenA the sister
superior OF the hospital, and when
old the object of his visit said she remem.
,ered the case Of poor Mr.. Quint very dis
inctly. Said she: 1T was very distress
ng case and excited my sympathies much. |
Poor fellow. he couldn't be cured and had |
o 60 home in terrible condition of help. |
essness and suffering" The house physi. |
ian. on consulting the records of st. Peters |
hospital, said he found only that Charles A. |
QUAINT entered the hospital March IA, 1890, |
vas treated by DR.. Henry Hun, assisted BY |
Dr.. Van Derveer, who was then, 1890, at |
l. L. 10 l. 10 II &L-A \ l.
,eing deemed not possible Of cure, he left
he hospital and WAS taken to his home, as |
le supposed to die.
Such il the full history of this most re- |
narkable case of successful recovery from |
heretofore supposed incurable disease, |
md after all the doctors had given him up. |
y the simple use OF Or: Wiili.ms Pink
eresting story Of . most miraculous cure |
Il dreadful disease by the simple use Of |
his popular remedy.
A further investigation revealed the fact /
hat Dr. williams Pink Pills are not
,atent medicine in the sense In which that |
erm 10 usually understood, but are sclen.
ifc preparation successfully used in gen.
raj practice for many years before being
'ffered to the public generally. They con.
ain in q condensed form all the elements
necessary to give new life and rich. /
less to the blood. and restore shat. |
cred nerves. They are an un. L
ailing specific for such diseases n locomo-
or ataxia, partial paralysis. St Vitus dance, |
ciatica, neuralgia, rheumatism, nervous |
.eadache. the after effects of Ia grippe, pal
,itation Of the heart pale and sallow COM
,lexions, that tired feeling resulting from |
lervsus pfostration; all diseases depending |
lpon vitiated humors in the blood. such % |
erofula, chronic erysipelas. etc. They arc |
1so . specific for troubles peculiar to |
emalaA such - suppressions. irragulsri. |