Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-05-06

To verify Mr.. Quant's statement our re-
porter q few days ago March 81. 1892
called on DIR. Allen Starr ut his Office. No.
90 West Twenty etghth street, New York
City. Dr.. Starr is house physician of the
Roosevelt Hospital. situated corner OF Ninth
avenue and Fifty-ninth street. In reply to
inquiry he said he remembered the case OF
MIR. QUAINT very we'll and treated him some.
but that he was chiefly treated and under
the more especial care of DIR. Ware. He
said he regarded this case ms no did all
cases of locomotor ataxia as incurable. In
order that our reporter might get u copy of
the history of the case of Mr.. QUAINT from
the hospital record he very courteously
gave him q letter of which the following is
a copy:
abr. NJ. A. Starr. % West Forty eighth
street, Office hours. 0 to IL u. m.. Now York,
March 81. 1s02.-Dear DR.. Vought: II you
have any record of q locomotor ataxia by
name OF QUAINT, who says he came to tho
clinic three or four years ago, No. 14037, of
the U. ID. Dept. Roosevelt, sent to me from
Ware, will you let the bearer know. If you
have no record send him to Roosevelt Hosp.
@Yours. STA1R.m
By means of this letter access to tho rec
ords was permitted md u Transcript of the
history of Mr.. Quunt's case made from them
as follows;
4No. 14o3'. Admitted Sept. 10, 1880,
Charles A. QUAINT, aged "a years Born, U.
s. Married. Hobokcn."
"I1lStOry VI tuC CASCs DySp4SlI IOr puSC
four or five years. About fourteen months
partial loss of " and :umbness in lower
extremitiea. GiidlinE sensation about alb
domen. (Nov. %, 1885, net improved. en-
ternal strlbismus OF LEFT eye ard dilatntion
OF the left eyc.) Some difficulty in passing
dizziness; alternate diarrhGa and consti-
patton; partial ptosis past two weeks in
left eye.
aOrd. R +. Bi pep and soda.n
These are the marked symptoms of a Sc
we're case of locomotor ataxia. aAnd DIR.
Starr said o case with such marked symp-
toms could not DO cured and QUAINT, who
was receiving treatment in tho outpRtient
department.. was givon up as incurable."
"Ihere mover was ~ case recovered in the
world,n said DR.. Starr. And then said:
aDr.W Ware can tell you more about the case,
as Quant was undor his more personal
treatment. am surprised.n he said. athat
the man is alive, as I thought he must be
dead long ago.
Our reporter found DR.. Edward Ware at
his Office. No. 162 West Ninety third street,
New York. He said: VI have very distinct
recollcctions of the QUAINT case. 1t was q
very pronounced case. 1 trented him about
eight months This was in the early suns
mer Of 1890. deemed him incurable. and
thought him dead before now. Imagine
my surprise when I received a letter from
him about two weeks ago telling me that be
was alive. was getting we'll and expected
soon to be fully recovered.n
@What do you think, Doctor. was the
cause Of his recoveryfn
@That Is more than I now QUAINT says
he has been taking some sort Of pills and
thatthey have cured him. AT allevents,I am
glad the poor fellow is getting we'll. for his
was u bad case and he was great sufferer
DE- Theodore r futile. Of $40 West
Eighteenth street. to whom our reporter is
indebted for assisting courtesies. said Of
locomotOr ataxia: 81 have had several
cases of this disease in the course Of my
practice. I will not say that it is inc .ra-
BILE. but I never knew Of u case to get we'll:
but I will say It is not deemed durable by
any remedies known to the medical pro-
fession.n
After this successful and c%onHrmatory
investigation in New York, our reporter.
Saturday. April I'd. 1892. visited St
Albany and Ferry streets. He had q
courteous reception by Sister Mary Phil
omena, the Sister Superior of St Peters
Hospital. q when told the object Of his
visit. said she remembered the case OF poor
Mr.. QUAINT very distinctly. Said she: ut
was . very distressing case and excited
my sympathies much. Poor fellow. he
couldn't be cured. and had to go home in
. terrible condition of helplessness aud
suffering. The house physician. on CON
said he found only that Charles A. QUAINT
entered the hospital March 18th, 1890. was
treated by Dr.. Henry Hun. assisted by Dr..
Van Derveer. b was then. 1890. at the
head of the hospital. and that his case be-
ing deemed not possible of cure, he left
the hospital mud was taken - his home. rs
he supposed to die.
Such Ii the full history Of this most re.
markable case Of successful recovery from
q heretofore supposed incurable disease.
and after all the doctors had given him up.
by the simple use OF DR.. Williams Pink
Pills for Pnle People. Truly 1t Is nm inter.
esting story OF o most miraculous cure of y
dreadful disease by the simple use of this
popular remedy.
A further investigation revealed tho fact