The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1892-12-22

&r. QUAINT very we'll and treated him some,
| but that he was chiefly treated and under
| the more especial care of DR. Ware He
| said he regarded this case as he did all
| cases oflocomotor ataxia as incurable. In
order that our reporter might get q 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
| a copy:
| DR.. NJ. A. Starr, % West Forty-eighth
street, office hours 0 to 12 A. NJ, New York,
March 3lst, 1S92.-Dear Mr.. Vought If
| you have any record of lOcomotor ataxia
| by the name of QUAINT, who says he came
| to the clinic 3 or years ago, No ii, ,037, of
the 0. 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 transcript of the
history of Mr.. Quant's case made from
them as follows:
mo. 14,o37. Admitted September 10Th,
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 low
er extremities. Girdling sensation about
abdomen. November Goth, 1889, not i'm
proved, external strobismus of left eye and
dilatation of the left eye.) Some difficulty
in passing water at times; no headache but
some dizziness; alternate diarrhea and
constipation partial ptOsis past two weeks
in left eye.
'Ord. r. F. Bi pep and Soda"
These are the marked syp ptOms of q Sc
we're case of lOcOmotor ataxla. "And DIR.
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 case recovered in the
cotI n - A. i
''Dr. Ware can tell you more about the case
as QUAINT was more under his personal
treatment. / 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. 26l West Ninety-third street,
New York. He said: Il have very distinct
recollections of the QUAINT case. It was
very pronounced case. | treated him about
eight months. This was in the early sum
mer of 1890. l deemed him incurable. and
thought him dead before now. Imagine my
| surprise when | received n letter from him
about two weeks ago telling me that he
| was alive, was getting well and expected
soon to be fully recovered"
What do you think, doctor. was the
cause of his recovery"
That is more than know QUAINT SAYS
he has been taking some s. rt of pills and
that they have cured him. At all events
| am glad the poor fellow is getting we'll for
| his was bad case and he was a great suf-
ferer."
DR.. Theodore r. Tuttle, of 3l9 West
| Eighteenth street, to whom our reporter is
indebted for assisting cOurtesies, said of
locomotOr ataxia. Il have had several
| cases of the disease in the course of nv
practice. will not say that it is incurable,
but will say it Is not deemed durable by
| any remedies known to the medical profess
sion"
After this successful and confirmatory
investigation in New York, our reporter
Saturday, April I'd, 1892, visited st Peters
| hospital, in Albany, corner of Albany and
Ferry streets. He had a courteous recep-
tiOn by Sister Mary Philomena, the sister
superior 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: 1T was a very Distress
ing case and excited my sympathies much.
Poor fellow, he couldn't be cured and had
to go home in q terrible condition of help
| lessness and suffering" The house physi-
clan, on consulting the records of St Peters
hospital, said he found only that Charles A.
QUAINT entered the hospital March l4th,
1890, was treated by DR.. Henry Hun, assist
ed by DR.. Van Derveer, who was then, 1890,
at the head of the hospital, and that his
| case being 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 use 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 the use of this popular
remedy.
A further investigation revealed the fact
that DR.. Williams Pink Pills are not a
IN In he in WI oh hat
| term is usually understood, but are a sci
entitc preparation successfully used in
general practice for many years before be-
| ing offered to the public generally. They
| contain in a condensed form all the ele-
ments necessary to give new life and rich
| ness to the blood, and restore shattered
| nerves. They are an unfailing specific for
such diseases of lOComotOr ataxia, partial
paralysis, st. Vitus' dance, sciatica, neu-
ralgia, rheumatism, nervous headache, the
after effects of la grippe palpitatiOn of the
heart, pale and sallow compile xions, that
| tired feeling resulting from nervous pros
| tration; all diseases depending upon vitiat-
| ed humOrs in the blood, such as scrofula,
chronic erysipelaS, etc. They are also q
specific for troubles peculiar TO females,
such as suppreSsiOns, Irregularities, and
all forms of weakness. They build up the
| blood and restore the glow of health to pale
or sallow cheeks. In the case of men they
effect a radical cure in all cases arising
| from mental worry, overwork or excesses
of whatever nature.
On further inquiry the writer found that
these pills are manufactured by the DR..
Williams Medicine Co. .,Schenectady,N.Y Y,
| and BrOckville, Ont, and are sold in boxes
| (never in bulk by the hundred), at so cents
a box, or six boxes for $3.50, and may be
had of all druggists or direct by mail from
DR.. Williams Medicine Co., from either
address: The price at which these pills are
| sold makes course of treatment compare
lively inexpensive as compared with other
| remedies or medical treatment.