Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1892-03-17
kSARATOGA co. MIRACLE.
Helpless for Years and Excluded
from Hospitals as Incurable.
The Remarkable Experience of Charles
QUAINT as Investigated by an Albany
N. Y.) journal Reporter
Story of Surprising Interest.


SARATOGA, March 4th. - For some
/ time past there have been reports here
| and elsewhere in Saratoga county OF Q
| most remarka BILE indeed, SO remark
| able as to be miraculous-cure of most
severe case of locomotor ataxia, or creep
| ing paralysis, simply by the use OF
popular remedy known as Pink Pills
| for Pale People" prepared and put uE
| by the DIR. Williams Medicine Company,
Morristown, N. Y, and Brockville. Ont.
| The story was to the effect that Mr..
| Chas. A. QUAINT, of Galway, who for the
| last six or eight years has been great
sufferer from creeping paralysis and its
attendant ills, and who had become ut
terly powerless of all self-help, had, by
the use of few boxes of the Pink Pills
for Pale People, been SO fully restored
| to health as to be able to walk about
the street without the aid of clutches.
The fame of this wonderful, miracu-
1ous cure was so great that the Evening
Journal reporter thought it worth his
while to go to Galway to call on Mr..
QUAINT to learn from his lips, and from
the observation and testimony of his
neighbors, if his alleged cure was a
fact or only an unfounded rumor. And
SO he drove to Galway and spent day
| and night there in visiting Mr.. QUAINT,
getting his story and interviewing his
ghbors and fellow-townsmen. 1t
may be proper to say that Galway is a
pretty little village Of about 900 people,
delightfully."- located near the center
OF the town of Galway, in Saratoga
county, and about II miles from Sara
toga Springs. pom inquiry the resi-
dence of Mr.. Char les A. QUAINT was
easily found, for every body seemed to
know him, speak we'll of him, and be
overlooking with surprise and satisfac-
ton at his wonderful cure and restora-
ton to the activities of enterprising cit
izenship, for Mr.. QUAINT was born in
Galway and had spent most of his
life there. Mr.. QUAINT was found
at his pretty home, on pleasant street
nearly opposite the academy. In re-
Spouse to a knock at the door it was
opened by a man who, in reply to an
quiry if Mr.. QUAINT lived there and was
at home, said: 81 am Mr.. QUAINT. Will
you come imp" After little general
and preliminary conversation, and after
he had been appraised of the object for
which the Journal reporter had called
OF himself and OF his sickness and ter
rible sufferings, and of the Intellectual
treatment he had had, and of his final
cure by the use of DR.. Williams Pink
Pills for Pale People, and cheerfully
gave assent to its use for publication.
He said MY name is Charles A.
QUAINT. I am 81 years old. I was born
in the village of Galway, and, excepting
while travelling on business and little
while in Amsterdam, have spent my
whole life here. My wife is native of
Ontario. Up to about eight years ago
had never been sick and was then in
perfect health. l was fully six feet tall,
weighed $50 pounds and was very
strong. For II years I was a travelling
salesman for piano and organ COM
pany and had to do a great deal of
heavy lifting, got my meals very irreg-
ularly and slept in enough spare beds
in country houses to freeze any ordi-
nary man to death, or at least give him
the rheumatism. About eight years
ago 1 began to feel distress in my
stomach and consulted several doctors
about it. They all said it was dyspep-
STA, and for dyspepsia I was treated by
various doctors in different places, and
took all the patent medicines l could
hear of that claimed to be cure for
dyspepsia. But I continued to grow
gradually worse for four years. Then
I began have pain in my back and legs
and became conscious that my legs
were getting weak and my step I'M
steady, and then staggered when 1
walked. Having received no benefit
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feeling that was constantly growing
worse, / then, upon advice, began the
use of electric belts, pads and all the
many different kinds of electric appli-
ances could hear of, and spent hun
dreds of dollars for them, but they did
me no good. Here MIR. QUAINT showed
the Journal reporter an electric suit of
underwear for which he paid S124). 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 Company. While there took a
thorough electric treatment, but it only
seemed to aggravate my disease, and
the only relief / could get from the
sharp and distressing pains was to take
morphine. The pain was so intense at
times that it seemed as though l could
not stand it, and I almost longed for
death as the only certain relief. In
September of 1888 my legs gave out en-
tirely and my left eye was drawn to one
side, SO that had double sight and was
dizzy. My trouble so affected my
whole nervous system that 1 had
to give up business. Then 1 re-
turned to New York and went
to the Roosevelt hospital, where for
four months L was treated by specialists
and they pronounced my case locomotor
ataxia and incurable. After / had been
under treatment by Prof. Starr and DR..
Ware for four montha, they told me they
had done all they could for me. Then
went 10 the New York hospital on Fiji
teenth street, where, upon examination,
they said was incurable and would not
take me in. At the Presbyterian hospi-
tai they examined me ard told me the
same thing. In March, 1890, was
taken to ST. Peters hospital in Albany,
where Prof. Fl. Fl. Hun frankly told my
wife my case was hopeless; that he
could do nothing for me and that she
had better take me back home and save
my money. But / wanted to make trial
of Prof. Huns famous skill and / re-
manned under his treatment for nine
weeks; but secured 10 benefit. All
this time 1 had been growing worse.
had become entirely paralyzed from
my waist down and had partly lost con-
troll of my hands. The pain was ter
rible; my legs felt as though they were