The Forrest City times., 1892-03-18
Saratoga Co. Miracle
HELPLESS FOR YEARS AND Ex- GUIDED FROM HOSPITALS
 AS INCURABLE.
The Remarkable Experience of Chas. Quant as Investigated by an Albany tN. M Journal Reporter-A
 Story of surpassing
 Interest.


 elsewhere in Saratoga county of most
 remarkable-indeed, so remarkable as
 to be miraculous-eure of a most severe
 case of locomotor ataxia, or creeping
 paralysis, simply by the use of popu-
 lar remedy known as Pink Pills for
 Pale people" prepared and put up by
 the Dr. Williams Medicine company,
 Morristown, N. Y. and Brockviile, Ont.
 The story was to the effect that Mir.
 Charles A. Quant, 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 Euening Journal
 reporter thought it worth his while to
 go to Galway to call on Mir. Quant, to
 learn from his lips, and from the obser-
 vation 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 MT. Quanc, getting his | story and interviewing his neighbors and fellow-townsmen It may he 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 Mir. Charles A. Quant was easily | found, for everybody seemed to know | him, speak well of him and to be over | flowing with surprise and satisfaction | at his wonderful cure and restoration | to the activities of enterprising citizen | ship. for MT. Quant was born in Galway and had spent most of his life there. | Mir. Ouant 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 a man who, in reply to an | inquiry if Mir. Quant lived there and l was at home, said: ''I am MT. Quant. | 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 o- himself and of his sickness l and terrible sufferings, and of the in- | effectual treatment he had had, and of | his final cure by the use of Dr. Williams | Pink Pills for Pale People, and cheer | fully gave assent to its use for publica-
 tion. He said: My name is Charles | A. Quant I am 37 years old. l was
 born in the village of Galway, and, ex- | cepting 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 never had been sick | and was then in perfect health. l was | fully SIX feet tall, weighed ls0 pounds
 and was very strong. For i2 years l was a travelling salesman for piano
 and organ company and had to do, or 1 at least did do a great deal of heavy
 lifting, got my meals very lrregularly 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 |
 began to feel distress in my stomach and consulted several doctors about 1t.
 They all said it was dyspepsia, and for | dyspepsia I was treated by various doe | tors in different places, and took all
 the patent medicines l could hear ot
 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 I staggered when l walked.
 Having received no benefit from
 the use of patent medicines, and ! feeling that was constantly growing
 worse, then, upon advice, began the ] use Of electric belts, pads and all the many differep. kinds of electric appli- ances I could hear of, and spent hun 1 dreds of dollars for them, but they did
 me no good. (Here Mir. Quant showed
 the Journal reporter an electric suit of
 underwear for which he paid Sl24) In 1 the fall of 1888 the doctors advised
 change of climate 80 went to Atlanta,
 Ga. and acted as agent for the Estey
 Organ company. While there took a
 thorough electric treatment but 1t only
 seemed to aggravate my disease, and the
 only relief l could get from the sharp
 and distressing pains was to take nor
 phine The pain was so intense at
 times that it seemed as though I could
 not stand it, and I almost longed for
 death as the only certain relief. In | seDLeluDtf ol 1000 my fSS S"
 tirely and my left eye was drawn L.
 one side, so that had double sight and
 was dizzy. My trouble so effected my
 whole nervous system that l had Co
 rive up business. Then I returned to
 New York and went to the Roosevelt
 hospital, where for four months l was
 treated by specialists and they pro
 pounced my case iocomotor ataxla | ,nd 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 I went to the New York hospital on Fifteenth street, where, upon ex- animation, they said l was incurable and would not take me in. At the
 Presbyterian hospital they examined
 me and told me the same thing. In
 March. 1890. was taken to St Peters
 hospital in Albany, where Prof H. 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 save my money. But l wanted to make a trial of Prof.
 Huns famous skill and l re-
 mained under his treatment.
 for, nine weeks, but secured no benefit
 All this time had been growing worse had become entirely paralyzed from
 my waist down and had partly lost con trol of my hands. The pain was terri
 ble; my legs felt as though they were
 oreezIny and my stomach would not
 petain food, and I fell away to l2o