Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-05-05
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To verify Mr.. Quant's statement our re.
porter a few DAYS go, March 3lst, 1892
called ON DIR. Allen Starr at his office. No.
y West Twenty-eighth St, New York citys
Ut. starr IS house physician of the Roose-
Nelt hospital, situated corner of Ninth
avenue and Fifty a:nth street. In reply to
inquiry he said he remembered the case OF
Mr. QUAINT very well and treated him some
but that lie was chiefly treated and underline
more especial care OF DIR. Ware. He said he
regarded this case as he did all cases oflo-
comotor ataxia as incurable. In order
that u reporter might get a copy ofthe
history of the CAGE of Mr.. QUAINT from the
hospital record he very courteously gave
hiia a letter of which the following is a
copy
Dr. NJ. A. Starr, % West Forty-eightstreet
office hours. 9to II a. M, New York, March
5lst ls92-Dear DIR. Nought: II you have
amy record OF Il locomotor ataxia by name
OF QUAINT, who SAYS he came 10 the cline
3 or 4 years ago, No. l4,037, of the O. d..
Dept, Roosevelt, sent to me from Ware,
will you let the bearer know. If you have
no record send him to Roosevelt Hosp.
Yours STARR.
BY means ofthis letter access to the records
was permitted and q transcript of the his
tory OF Mr., Quauts case made from them
as follows
No, l4,o37. Admitted September 10th,
1889, Charles A. QUAINT, aged "a years.
pbIfi 10. Married. hOD0ken.
History of the case; - Dyspepsia for
past four or five years. About ii months
partial loss of power and numbness in
lower extremities. Girdling sensativnabout
abdomen. (November 18th, 1889, not
improved, external strobismus of left eye
and dilatation of the left eye.) Some diff
Guilty in passing water at times; no head
ach but some dizziness; alternate diarrhoea
and constipation; partial ptosis past W
weeks in LETT eve.
"ord. r. +. hi pep. and Soda
These are the marked symptoms of a
severe case oflocomofoT ataxia. And DIR.
Starr said a case with such marked symp-
toms could not be cured and QUAINT who
was receiving treatment in the out-patient
department, was given up as incurable."
There never was a case recovered in the
worlJ,'' said DIR. Starr. And then said:
'.Dr. Ware can tell yoiimor about the case
as Quant was under his more personal
treatment. ! am surprised, he said, that
the man is alive, as l thought he must be
dead long ago"
Our reporter found DR.. Edward Ware
at his office, No. l63 West Ninety-third
street. New York. He said; Il have very
distinct recollections Of the QUAINT case. II
wa a very pronounced case. treated him
about 81 light months. This wa in the early
summer of 1890. deemed him iaaurable,
and thought him dead before now. I'M
agine my surprise when l received a letter
from him about two weeks ago telling me
that he was alive, was getting well and ex-
pected soon 70 be fully recovered"
What do you think, doctor, was the
eanse of his recovery"
That is more thar ! know. QUAINT GAYS
he has been taking some sort of pills and
that they have cured him. At all events,
| am glad the poor fellow is getting well,
for his was a bad case and he vas a great
sufierer.h
n. Ir-..l- r q ~.
Eighteenth street, to whom our reporter is
indebted for assisting eourtesies. said OF
locomotor ataxia? Il nave had several
cases of this disease in the course of my
practice. will not say that it sl1ciurable,
but ! never knew OF a case TO get well; but
! will say it is not deemed curaole by any
remedies known to the medical profes-
SION"
After this successful and comtirmatory in
yestigationin New York, our reporter Satur-
day April 2nd, 1892, visited st. Peters Hos
pital, in Albany, orn ofAlbany and Fer.
~ streets. He had a courteous reception
by Sister Mary Philomena, the sister
superior ofSt. Peters hospital, and when
told the object of his visit. said she remerR-
bered the case of poor Mr.. QUAINT very
distinctly. Said she: I'll was a very dis
tressing case and excited my sympathies
much. Poor fellow he couldn't be cured
and had TO go home in a terrible condition
Oi UtipleSSIt>s anu sulltIlHR. Inc nouSe
physician, on consulting the records of st.
Peters hospital, said he found only that
Charles A. QUAINT entered the hospital
+ March 18th, 1880, was treated by DIR. Henry
Hun, assisted by DIR. Van Deryeer, who
was then. 1890, at the head of the hospital,
and that his case being deemed not possible
of cure, he left the hos pital and was taken
to his home, as he supposed to die.
Such is the inll history OF this most re-
markable case of successful recovery from
a heretofore supposed incurable disease,
and after all the doctors had given him up,
by the simple use of DIR. Williams Pink
Pills for Pale People. Truly it is an inter
esting story of a most miraculous cure of a
dreadful disease by the simple use oil this
popular remedy.
A further investigation revealed the fact
that DIR. Williams Fink Pills are not a
Iatent medicine in the sense in which that
Term is usually Understood, but are a
scientific PREPARATION successfully used in
! general practice for many years before be-