Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1892-03-24
A SARATOGA co. MIRACLE.
HELPLESS FOR YEARS AND Rx,
CLUDED FROM HOSPITALS
AS INCURABLE
lHE REMARKABLE EXPERIENCE OF CHAs.
QUAINT AS INvEsTIG ,rED BY AN Al
BANY IN. " JOURNAL REPORT
ERA STORY OF SUR

FasO 'heie nave Deen reports here and else
where In Saratoga County of a most remark
able-indeed, so remarka le as to he miracu.
lous-cure of most severe cese of locomotor
a'aSla, OF creeping paralysis, simply by the
use or popular remedy known as s:Pink
fllls for Pale People," prepared and mt nm
,,y the DIR. Williams Medicine Company
iMNorrlstown. N. Y, and Brockvile, Ont
inc story was to the offect that Mr. Chas.
a. QUAINT, of Galway who for the last sir
OF eight years has been great sufferer from
creeping paralysis and its attendant lila and
VINO had become utterly poweress of ali
seli-he p, had, by the use OF a few boxes of
the Pink Pills for Pale People, been SO fully
restored 10 health as to be able to walk
about the street without the aid of crutches
The fame of this wonderful. miraculous cura
was so great that the Evening Journal re-
porter thought it worth his while To 90 IN
Galway to call on Mr.. QUAINT, to learn Prom
his lips, and from the observation and testi
mony of his neighbors, il his alleged cure
was TACT or only an unfounded rumor.
An so he drove to Galway and spent a day
and night there in visiting Mr.. QUAINT
gettlng his story and interviewing his
nei9hbors and feilow-townsmep. Ii nav he
proper to say that Galway is pretty little
village of about 400 people, deliR6tfully
located near the centre of the town
OF Gsiway, IN Saratoga County, and
about IL miles from Saratoga Sprlngs.
Upon inquiry the residence of Mr.
Charles A. QUAINT was easily found, for
everybody seemed to know him, speak we'll of
HIM, and to be Overlooking with sllrprise and
satisfaction at his wonderful cure and rastor
alton 10 the activities of enterprisiny citi
zenship, for Mr.. QUAINT was born in Galway
anu hai spent most of his life there Mr..
QUAINT was iound at his pretty home, on
pleasant street nearly opposite the academy.
In response to knock at the door it was
o! ened by man who, in reply to an inquiry
ii Mr.. QUAINT lived there AMI was at home.
said: Il am Mr.. QUAINT, Will you come inP'
Alter little general and preliminary CONVEX
satlon, and after he had been apprsed 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 sufferings, and of the Intellectual
treatment he had had, and of his final cure
by the use of Dr. Willlams's Pink Pills for
Pale People, and cheertully gave assent to
its use for publication. He SAID: INV mama
is Charles A. QUAINT. | am 81 years old
was born in the village of Galway. and, ex-
cepting while travelling on business and a
little while i'll Amsterdam, have spent nv
whole life here. My wife is native Of
Ontario. Up to about eight years ago had
never been sick and was then in perfect
health. was fully six feet tall, weighed
$50 pounds and was very strong. For twelve
years was travelling salesman for a piano
and organ company and had to do, or at least
did do, great deal of heavy lifting, got nv
meals very irregularly and slept in enough
spare beds in country houses to freeze any
ordinary man To death, or at least give him the
rheumatism. About eight years ago began
to feel distressed in my stomach and con-
suited several doctors about it. They all
said 1t was dyspepsia, and for dyspepsia |
was treated by various doctors in different
places, and took all the patent medicines
could hear of that claimed to be a cure for
dyspepsia. But continued to grow grad
ually worse tor four years. Then | began
to have pain in my back and legs and became
that my legs were getting weak
and my step unsteady, and then staggere
when 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 AMI all the many different kinds OF
electric appliances could hear Of an spent
hundreds of dollars for them, but they did
me no good. tflere Mr.. QUAINT showed the
Journal reporter an electric suit of under
wear for which he paid S124) In the fall of
1888 the doctors advised change of climate
SO went TO Atlanta, Ca, and actel as agent
!or the Estey Organ Company. While there
took thorough electric treatment, but it
only seemed to aggravate my disease, and
the only relief | could get from the sharp
and distressing pains was to take NOR
phine. 1 he pain was SO intense at times
that it seemed as though L could not stand
it. and almost longed for death as the only
certain relief. In September of 1855 my
legs gave out entirely and my left eye was
double sight and was dizzy. My
trouble SO affected my whole nervous system
that had TO give up business. Then [ re-
turned to New York and went to the Roose-
welt hospital. where for four months | was
treated by specialists and they pronounced
my case locomotor ataxia and incurable.
Alter had been under treatment by Prof
Starr and DIR. Ware for 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 examination,
they said | was incurable and would not take
me in. AT the Presbyterian hospital they
examined me and told me the same thing.
In March, 1881, l was taken to st. PGtel5s
hospital in Albany, where Prof. HI. Fl. 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 wanted to make a trial
of Prof. Huns famous skill and | rename,
under his treatment for nine weeks but SO
cured no benefit, All this time | had be Ell
growing worse. / had become entirel,
paralyzed from my waist down and had
partly lost control of my hands. The pain
was terrible; my legs felt as though they
were freez ng and my stomach would not re.
tain food, and fell away to l2O pounds
In the Albany hospital they put II big
burns ON my back one day with red hot
IRONS, and after few days they put IA
more burns on and treated me with cleo
1ricity, but 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, | was brought home,
where 1t was thought that death would soon
!, come to relieve me Of my sufferings. Last
September, while in this helpless and suffer-
ing condition, friend of mine in Hamilton,
ont, called my attention to the statement
o1 one John Marshall, whose case had been
similar to any own, and who had been curel