Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1892-04-14
ASaratoga Co. Miracle
HELPLESS FOR YEARS AND ESe-
GUIDED FROM HOSPITALS
AS INCURABLE.
The RsnarIzabIe Experience OF chaA
QUAINT as Investigated by an Albany
(N. " Journal RePOrter-A
Story OF Surprising
Interest.
Albany, N. Y. journal, March 4tA.

elsewhere IN Saratoga county OF a most
able-indeed, so remarkable as
to be miraeulous-cure of a most severe
case Of loeomotor ataxia. or creeping
paralysis, simply by the use of a popu-
lar remedy known as "Pink Pills for
Pale people, - prepared and put up by
the DIR. Williams Medicine company,
MorristOwn, n. Y. and BroclHville, Ont
The story was to the effect that Mr..
Charles 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 be-
come utterly powerless of all self-help,
had, by the use of a 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 crutches. The fame of this
wonderful, miraculous cure was SO
great that the EUenfnG Journal
reporter thought it worth his while to
go to Galway to call on Mr.. QUAINT, to
learn from his lips, and from the obser>
walton and testimony of his neighbOrs,
If his alleged cure was 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 neighbors
and fellow-townsmen. It may be proper
to say that Galway is pretty little
village of about 400 people, de-
lightfully located near the center of the
town of Galway in Saratoga county, and
about Seventeen miles from Saratoga
Springs Upon inquiry, the residence
Of Mr.. Charles A. GCant was easily
found, for everybody seemed to know
him, speak well of him and u - over
flowing with surprise and satisfaction
1T his wonderful cure and restoration
to the activities of enterprising citizen
ship, for Mr.. QUAINT was born in Galway
and had spent most of his life there.
Mr.. QUAINT was found at his pretty
home, on a pleasant street nearly OPP
pOsite the academy. In response
to a knock at the door it was
opened by man who, in reply to an
inquiry if Mr.. QUAINT lived there and
was at home, said: ST am Mr.. QUAINT.
Will you come in?'' After little gen.
eral and preliminary conversation, and
after he had been apprised Of the object
for which the Journal reporter had
called upon him, he, at request, told
the story Of himself and of his sickness
and terrible sutferings, and of the in
effectual treatment he had had, and of
his final cure by the use of DIR. Williams
Pink Pills for Pale People, and cheer
fully gave assent to its use for publica-
ton. He said: ''My name is Charles
A. QUAINT I am 81 years old. I was
born in the village of Galway, and, ex-
cepting while travelling on business
and a little while in Amsterdam, have
spent my whole life here. My wife is
a native of Ontario. Up to about
eight years ago never had been sick
and was then in perfect health. was
fully SIX feet tall, weighed $50 pounds
and was very strong. For IL years l
was travelling salesman for piano
and organ company and had to do, or
at least did do a great deal of heLvy
lifting, got my meals very irregularly
and slept in enough'spare beds in coun-
try houses to freeze any ordinary man
TO death, or at least give him the
rheumatism. About eight years ago I
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 doc
tors in different places, and took all
the patent medicines l could hear of
that claimed to be a cure for dyspepsia.
But I continued to grow gradually
worse for four years. Then began to
have pain in my back and legs and be-
came conscious that my legs were get
ting weak and my step unsteady, and
then staggered when 1 walked.
Having received no benefit from
the use of patent medicines, and
feeling that I was constantly growing
worse, then, upon advice, began the
use of electric belts, pads and all the
u.any different kinds of electric appH-
ances could hear of, and 1Fcct r.
S-c5s G 6oll-rs Tor them, but they did
me no good. Here Mr.. QUAINT showed
the Journal reporter an electric suit OF
/ l. IL, l,sa In
the fall of 1888 the doctors advised
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 1 could get from the sharp
and distressing pains was to take NOR
phine. The pain was so intense 81
| 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-
eirely and my left eye YVES drawn to
one side, so that had double sight and
Was dizzy. NV trouble SO effected my
whole nervous system that had co
| give up business. Then l returned to
| New York and went to the Roosevelt
| hospital, where for four months 1 was
treated by specialists and they pro-
| and incurabIe. After I had been
under treatment by Prof. Starr and DIR.
Ware Tor four months, they told me
] they had done all they could for me.
Then went to the New York hospital
on Fifteenth street, where, upon ex-
animation they said was incurabl9
and would not take me in. AZ tho
| Presbyterian hospital they examined
me and told me the same thing. In
| March, 1890, was taken to st. Peters
| hospital in Albany, where Prof. II. Il.
| Hun frankly told my wife my cas- ,zas
hopeless; that he could do nothing for
me and that she had better take me
back home and save my money. But I
wanted to make a trial of Prof.
Huns famous skill and re-
/ NAMED under his treatment.
for, nine weeks, but secured no benefit
All this time had been growing worse
had become entirely paralyzed from
nv waist down and had partly lost con-
troll of my hands. The pain was terri
bic. nv legs felt as though they were
| Freezing and my stomach would not
petain food, and I fell away to 100
Pounds In the Albany hospital they
nut II big burns on my back one day
with red hot irons and after a few
/ days they put II more burns on and
| treated me with electricity, but I got
worse rather than better; lost control
Of my bowels and water, and upon
advice OF the doctor, who said
/ there was no hope for me, I was
brought home. where it was Thought
that death would soon come to relievU
me OF my suherings. Last September,
while in this helpless and suffering
| condition, a friend of mine in Hamil-