Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1892-05-07
THE SARATOGA MIRACLE
FURTHER INVESTIGATED ny AN Ex-
PRESS REPORTER.


FURTHER INVESTIGATED by AN Ex-
PRESS REPORTER
TIE FACTS ALREADY STATED FULLY Gov
FIRMED-ISTERvIEws WITH LEADING
PHYSICIANS WHO TREATED QUAINT
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. V,
Journal, giving the particulars OF ons OF the
most remarkable cures of the 10Th century
The article was under the heading "A
Saratoga Co. Miracle" AMI excited suc1
widespread comment that another AIblny
paper-the Express etailei 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 ao-
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 renarkable-indee1 SO remarkable as
to well Justify the term ''miraculousn
creeping paralysis, simply by the use Of
Pink Pills for Pile People, and, in comply
ance with instructions, an Express Reporter
has been deyoting some time in q critical
Investigation of the real facts OF the case.
Thestory of the wonderful cure of Charles
A. QUAINT, of Galway, Saratoga County,
n. Y. as first told in the Journal, has
been copied into hundre Is If no. thousands
of other daily and weekly newspapers an /
has created such sensation throughout the
entire country that it was deemed a duty
due all the peop.e, ani especially the thou
sands of similarly afil ctsd, that the state
ments of the case as made in the Albany
Journal, and copied into so many other
newspapers shouid, if true, b. ver.fi VI; or,
if false, exposed as an imposition up0a public
credulity.
The result of the Express reporters in.
vestigations authoriz IS him in Swing that
the story of Charles A. Qnants cure OF
locomotor ataxia by the use OF Pink Pills
for Pale People, popular remedy prepared
and put up toy the DR.. Williams Medicine
Company, Morristown, n. Y, and Brock
vile, Ontario, IS TRUE, an that all its
statements are not only justifiei but verified
by the fuller development OF the 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 ssillful doctors in
two of the best hospitals in the State of New
York-the Roosevelt Hospital in New York
City and st. Peters Hosp tai in Albany
was dismissed from each as incurable and,
because the case was deemed incurable til }
man was denied admission into several 9TH
ers to which application was made in his be-
half. The story as toll by Mr.. QUAINT him
self and published in the Albany Journal, is
as follows:
my name is Charles A. QUAINT; am 81
years Cd; | was born in the village of Gal
way and excepting while travelling on bust
ness and a little while in Amsterdam, have
spent nay whole life here. Up to about eight
years ago | had nev,r been sick and was
then in perfect health. was fully six feet
tall, weighed $50 pounds AMI 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 | began to
feel distress in my stomach, and cons ute /
several doctors about it. They all said it
was dyspepsia, and for dyspepsia l was
treated by various doctors in different
places, an took all the patent medicines
could hear of that elaine to be a cure for
dyspepsia. Put ! continued to grow gra l.
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, AMI then
staggered when l walked. Having received
no benefit from the use of patent medicines,
and feeling that l was constantly CROWN !,
worse, then, upon advice, began the use O
electric belts, pas and all the many different
kinds of electric appliances | could hear of,
and spent hundreds of dollars for them, Tut
they did me no good Here Mr.. QUAINT
showed the Journal reporter an electric suit
OF underwear. for which he paid SPA In
the fall of 1888 the doctors advised c1ange
of climate, so | went to Atlanta, Ga. aud
acted as agent for the R.stey Organ Com
papy. While there took a thorough eec-
/ tric treatment, but 1t only emei to aggra-
vate my disease, aud the only relief | could
( get from the sharp and distressing plins was
/ to take morphine. The pain was so in
/ tense at times that it seemed as though
| could not stand it, and almost longed for
/. death as the only certain relief. In Septem-
I Der of 1888 my legs gave out entirely and my
4 left eye was drawn to one side, SO that had
double sight and was dizzy. My trouble 50
! 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 treate |
/ by specialists and they pronounced my case
/ locomotor ataxia and incurable. After
I had been under treatment by Prof Starr
/ and Dr. Ware for four months, they told me-
/ they had done all they could for me. Then
l went to the New York Hospital on FIJI
! tenth street. where, upon examination, they
said was incurable and would not take m;
/ in. At the Presbyterian Hospital they ex
! amined me and told me the same thing. II
1 March, 1890 | was ta5en to st. Peters Hos
/ ,,;+ A VII II
1 frankly tod my wife my case was hopeless
that he could do nothing for msand that shJ
! had better take me back hone aud saw ms
money But wanted to make trial o
I Prof. Huns famous skill AMI | rename
under his treatment for nine weeks, but Sc
/ cured no benefit. All this time ha bee:
/ growing worse. | had become entirely
/ paraIyzad from my waist down an hae
/ rarity lost control of my han Is. The pair
I was terrible; my legs felt as though they
were freezing and my $50 mach would not re
tain food and fell away to 190 pounds
I In the Albany Hospital they put seventeen
big burns on my back one day with rel no
irons and after few days they put fourtee.
more burns on and treated me with cleo
tricity, but got worse rather than better
lost control of my bowels and water, AMI
upon advice of the doctor who saiC
there was no hope for me-, | was brou III
/ home, where it was thought that death woul,
I soon come to relieve me of my sufferings
4 Last September, while in this helpless anC
suffering condition, friend of mine il
Hamilton, Ont, called my attention to tn
statement of one John Marshall, whose cas-
had been similar to my own. AMI who has
been cured by the use OF DR.. Williams PIN
I Pills for Pale People. In this case Mr.. Mar
/ shall, who is a prominent member of til
I Royal Templars of Temperance, had, afte
/ four years of constant treatment by th'
! most eminent Canadian physicians, beer
/ pronounced incurable, and paid the 500
| total disabi ity cliim allow I'd by the order il
such cases. Some months alter Mr.. Mar
shall began n course of treatment with D'
/ Williams Pink Pills, AMI after taking SON
! Is boxes was fully restored to health.
/ thought | would try them, and my wife sen
I for two boxes OF the pills, an | took thel
accor ling to the directions on tine wrappe
on each box. For the first few days tn
! cold baths were pretty severe as | WIS 81
1 very weak, but | continual to follow in
strnctions as to taking the pills and tn
treatment, au1 even before | had use1 vi
the two boxes of the pills | began TO fel
beneficial results from them. My pains wer
not so bad. | felt warmer; my head fel
better; my food began 10 relish and agre
with me; l could strai ,htsn up; the feeiiu'
began to come back into my limbs; | b.
gau TO be able to get about on crutches
my eye came back again as COOL as ever
and now, after the use of eli yht boxes of til
pills, at cost Of only 81 70 -see,-Icl1 wit
the help of cane only, walk all about tn
house and yard, can saw woo1, an | on pleas
ant days | walk down town. My stomach
trouble is gohe:I have gainsl 10 pou lds;
feel like a new man, an when the sprin
opens expect to be able to renew my 'orSai
and piano agency. | cannot speak in to
high terms OF Dr. Williams PINK Pi Is fol
Pale People, as | know they saved my lif