The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1892-05-07
THE SARATOGA MIRACLE
FURTHER INVESTIGATED BY AN
r EXPRESS REPORTER. :.
The Facts Already Stated Fully Con-
ftrmed--Interviews With Leading
Physicians who Treated QUAINT
1.-The Most Marvellous
Case In The History Of
M0QICal SQI0nCQ. -

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Medical 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 18th 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 a thorough investigation of the state
ments appearing in the Journals article.
The facts as elicitedby the Express reporter
are given in the following article, which
appeared in that paper or April 10th, and
makes one of the most interesting stories
ever related g.,
A few weeks ago there was published in
the Albany Evening Journal the story of q
most remarkable-indeed SO remarkable as
to well justify the term miraculous
cure ofa severe case of iocomotor ataxia,
or creeping paralysis; simply by the use of
Pink Pills for Pale People, and, i'm compli-
ance with instructions, All 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, as first told in ''The Journal" has
been copied into hundreds if not thous-
ands of other daily and weekly newspapers
and has created such a sensation through
out the entire country that it was deemed
a duty due all the people and especially the
thousands of similarly afflicted. that the
statements of the case as made in ''The
Albany Journal" and copied into SO many
other newspapers should, if true, be veri-
fed; or, if false, exposed as an imposition
upon public credulity.
The result of tho Express reporters in
v~estigation authorizes him in saying that
the story of Charles A. Quants cure Of
locomotor ataxia by the use of Pink
Pills for Pale People. a popular remedy
prepared and put up by the DR.. Williams
Medicine Company, Morristown N. Y,
and Brockville Ontario, IS TRUE. and
that all its statements are not only justified
but verified by the fuller elopment of
the further facts of the case.
Perhaps the readers of the Express are
not all of them fully familiar with the de-
tails ofthis miraculous restoration to health
Of q 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
others to which application was made in
his behalf. The story as told by Mr.. QUAINT
himself and published in the Albany Jour-
nal, is as follows
my name is Charles A. QUAINT. I am 81
years old. I was born in the village of Gal
way and excepting while travelling on bust
ness and a little while in Amsterdam, have
spent my whole life here. Up to about
was then in perfect health. 1 was fully six
feet tall, weighed $50 pounds and was very
strong. For II years | was travelling sales
man for O piano and organ company, and
had to do, or at least did do, a great deal of
heavy lifting, got my meals very irresular-
ly and slept In enough spare beds in
country houses to freeze any ordinary man
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 ! was
treated by various doctors in different
places, and took all the patent medicines I
could hear of that claimed to be a cure for
dyspepsia. But continued to grow grad
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to have pain in my back and legs and be-
came conscious that my legs were getting
weak and my step unsteady, and then I
staggered when I walked. Having received
no benefit from the use of patent
medicines. and feeling that I was con
stantly growing worse, I then, upon advice.
the many different kinds of electric appli-
ances l could hear of, and spent hundreds
of dollars Tor them but they did me no
good. Here Mr.. QUAINT showed the Jour-
nal reporter an electric suit of underwear,
for which he paid 1924. In the fall of 1883
the doctors advised q change Of climate, SO
went to Atlanta. Ga, and acted as agent
for the Estey Organ Company. While
there / took q thorough electric treatment,
but it only seemed to aggravate my disease,
and the only relief l 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 entirely and my left
eye was drawn to one side, SO that / had
double sight and was dizzy. My trouble
SO effected my whole nervous system that
I had to give up business. Then I returned
to New York and went ito the Roosevelt
hospital, where for four months I was
treated by specialists and they pronounced
lily uEE Case +t N1OCOl1OlOI H. &0ldAl6 AlO
incurable. Alter / had been under
treatment by Prof. Starr and DR.. Ware for
four months, they told methey had doneall
they could for me. Then / went to theNew
York hospital on Fifteenth street, where
upon an examination, they said l was In
durable and would not take ME in. At the
Presbyterian hospital they examined me
1880, I was taken to st. Peters hospital in
Albany, where Prof. ii. II. 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 my
money. But I wanted to make q trial of
Prot. Huns famous skill and I remained
under his treatment for nine weeks, but Sc
growing worse. I had become entirely
paralyzed from my waist down and had
partly Host control Of my hands. The
pain was terrible; my legs felt as
though they were freezing and my
stomach would not retain food, and I fell
away to 100 pounds. In the Albany hospi-
tai they. put ~ big burns on my back one
they put IA more burns on and treated me
with electricity, but / got worse rather
than better; lost control OF my bowels and
water, and upon advice Of the coctor, who
said there was no hope for me, I was
brought home, Wherei it was thought that
death would soon come to relieve ME of my
sufferings. Last September. while in this
helpless and suffering condition, q friend
of mine in Hamilton, Ont, called my at
tention to- the statement Of one John Mar
shall, whose case had been similar to nv
own, and who had been cured by the use 81
DR.. Williams Pink Pills for Pale People.
In this case Mr.. Marshall, who lisa promi.
nent member OF the Royal Templars OF
Temperance had, after four years OF con-
slant treatment by the most eminent Cans
dian physicians, been pronounced incur
able, and paid the 81. 600 total disability
claim allowed by the order in such cases.
Some months after Mr.. Marshall began q
course Of treatment with DR.: Williams Pink