Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1892-05-12
THE SARATOGA MIRACLE
FURTHER INVESTIGATED BY AN Ex.
PRESS REPORTER

| THE MosT MARVELLOUS CASE
IN THE 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 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 APP
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
| most remarks blended SO remarkable as
| to well justify the term miraculous cure
| of a severe case of locomotor ataxia, or
| creeping 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
| investigation of the real facts of the case.
| The story of the wonderful cure of Charles
| A. QUAINT, of Galway, Saratoga County
| N. Y, dis first told in the journal, has
| been copied into hundreds il not thousands
| Of other daily and weekly newspapers and
| has created such sensation throughout the
entire country that'it was deemed a duty
| due all the people, and especially the thou
sands of similarly afflicted, that the state
ments of the case as made in the Albany
| journal, and copied into SO many other
newspapers should, if true, be verified; OF,
ii false, exposed as an imposition upon public
| credulity.
1 hn ag11lt of he rtat.je IL.
vestigations authorizes him in saying that
| the story of Charles A. Quant's cure of
| locomotor ataxia by the use of Pink Pills
| for Pale People, popular remedy prepared
and put up by the Dr.Williams Medicine
| Company, Morristown, N. Y, and Brock
vile, Ontario, is TRUE, and that all its
statements are not only justified but verified
by the fuller development of tho further
facts of the case.
| Perhaps the readers of the Express are
not all OF them fully familiar with the de-
tails of this miraculous restoration to health
| OF 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; am 81
years old; was born in the village of Gal
way and excepting while travelling on bust
ness and little while in Amsterdam, have
spent nay whole life here. Up to about eight
years ago | had never been sick and was
then in perfect health. / was fully six feet
tall, weighed $50 pounds and was very
strong. For IL years was travelling sales
lima fRr Mia nA .s-rpx&x a
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 began to
| feel distress in my stomach, and consulted
several doctors about it.. They all said it
was dyspepsia, and for dyspepsia i was
treated by various doctors in different
places, and took all the patent medicines
could hear OF that claimed to be a cure for
dyspepsia But continued to grow grad
ually worse for four years. Then ! began
to have pain in my back and legs and be-
came conscious that my legs were getting
weak and my step unsteady, and then |
staggered when / walked. having received
no benefit from the use of patent medicines,
and feeling that l was constantly growing
worse, then, upon advice, began the use OF
electric belts paas and all the many different
kinds of electric appliances | could hear OF,
| and spent hundreds of dollars Tor them, hut
they did me no good. Here Mr.. QUAINT
showed the Journal reporter an electric suit
OF underwear, for which he paid $l24.) In
the fall of 1855 the doctors advised cnange
of climate sol went to Atlanta, Ga. and
acted as agent for the Estey Organ Com
pany. While there took thorough cleo
tric treatment, but 1T only seemed to aggra-
vate my disease and the only relief | could
get from the sharp and distressing pains was
| "a tax
tense at times that it seemed as though |
could not stand it, and l almost longed for
death as the only certain relief In Septem-
Der OF 1888 my legs gave out entirely and my
left eye was drawn to one side so that lad
double sight and was dizzy. My trouble so
affected my whole nervous system that
had to give up business. Then returned to
New York and went to the Roosevelt Hos
pital, where for four months / was treated
by specialists and they pronounced my case
loconotor ataxia and incurable. After
had been under treatment by Prof. Starr
and DIR. Ware for four months, they told me
they had done all they could for me. Then
went to the New York Hospital on Fiji
teenth street. where, upon examination, they
said was incurabe and would not take ms
in. At the Presbyterian Hospital thcy ex
amined me and told me the same thing. Il
March, 1890; ] was tasen to st. Peters RIOS
pital in Albany, where Prof. ID. II. HUI
frankly told my wife my case was hopeless
that he could do nothing for meand that sh,
had better take me back home and SAVE my
money. But l wanted to make a trial o
Prof. Huns famous skill and l remainet
under his treatment for nine weeks, but Sc
cured no benefit. All this time had beef
growing worse. l had become entirel,
paralyzed from my waist down and hat
PARTLY lost control of my hands. The pain
was terrible; my legs felt as though the,
were freezing and my stomach would not re
tain food, and | fell away to 100 pounds
In the Albany Hospital they put seventeen
, big burns on my back one day with red no
irons, and after few days they put fourteen
more burns on and treated me with cleo
tricity but got worse rather than better
lost control of my bowels and water, and
) upon advice OF the doctor, who sal
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 i
Hamilton, Ont, called my attention to tn
statement of one John Marshall, whose cas-
had been similar to my own, and who ha
been cured by the use of DR.. Williams Pin
Pills for Pale People. In this case Mr.. MAJ
, shall, who is a prominent member OF To
Royal Templars of temperance, had. afte
four years of constant treatment by tn
0 most eminent Canadian physicians, bee
pronounced incurable, and paid the $lO0
total disability claim allowed by the order