The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1892-05-21

FURTHER INVESTIGATED BY AN
EXPRESS REPORTER.

| this paper copied from the Albany u. Y.
Journal. giving the particulars of one OF
the most remarkable cures Of the nine
teenth century. The article was under the
heading "a Saratoga County Miracle and
excited such widespread comment that am
other Albany paper-the Express-detailed
reporter to make thorough investigation
Of the statements appearing in the Jour
nails article. The facts as ELECTED by the
Express Reporter are given in the following
article. which appeared in that paper on
April 16, and makes one of the most inter-
cStng stories ever relat ID:
A few weeks ago there was published in
the Albany Evening Journal the story of a
most rkable--indeed, SO rcmarkabl
as to we'll justify the term "miraculuus'-
cure of a severe case of locomotor ataXia,
| or creeping paralysis; simply by the use OF
Pink Pills fog Pale 7 cople, and, in cOmpli-
ancc with inStruc tons, an Express reporter
has been GcyotinS some time in Il critical
investigation of the real facts of the case.
The story Of the wonderful cure OF
Charles 4. QUAINT, of Galway, Saratoga
County, New York, as first told in ~ he
Iournal,n has lcen copied into hundreds
if not thousands Of other daily and weekly
newspapers. and has created such serrsa-
ton throughout the entire country that il
vas deemed u duty due all the people, and
especially the thousands of similarly
afflicted, that the statements OF the case
rs made in the THE Albany Journal
and copied into many other ncwspa-
.,,.i4 IL.
false exposed rs an imposition upon pub
lie Crcdulity.
The result of the Express reporters in
vcstigat ions authorizes him in saying that
the story of Charles 4. Quaut's cure OF
locomotor ataxia by the use of Pink Pills
for Pale People, II popular remedy pre-
| pared and put up by the Or. Williams
Medicine Company, Morristown, ~ y, and
Brockville, Ontario, l. TRUE. and that all
its statements are not only justified bu;
verified by the fuller development of the
further facts in the case.
Perhaps the readers OF the Express arc
not al If them fully familiar with the de-
tails of this miraculous restoration tt
health of man who after weeks and
months of treatment by the most skillfui
doctors in two of the bcs hospitals in the
State OF New Gorl1-thc X ooseEclt Hospital
in New York City nd st. Peters Hospital
in Albany-was dismissed from ca ch as in
curabic and. because the case wa deemed
incurable, the man was denied admissio Il
into several others to which application
was made in his behalf. The story as told
ny Mr. QUAINT himself aud published in the
Albany Journal is rs follows:
"My name is Charles \. QUAINT. an 81
years old I was born in the village OF
Galway, and excepting while travelling on
business and little while in Amsterl a IN,
have spent my whole life here. | D &c
about eight years ago ] had never lcen
silk and was then in perfect health | was
fully six feet tall, weighed 80 pounds and
was very strong. For twelve years | was
travelling salesman fer 4 p ano and organ
company, and had to do, or al least did dc,
great deal of heavy lifting, got my meals
very irrcgHlarly, 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 / Logan to feel distress in my
stomach, and consulted several doctors
about it. They all said it Was dyspepsia,
and for dyspepsia l was treated by various
doctors IN different pla ces, and tooi> all the
patent medicines ] could hear If that
claimed to be cure for dyspepsia.
But ! continued to grow gradually worse
for four years. Then | began 10 have
pain in my back and legs and became
conscious that my legs were getting veal
and my step unsteady, and then ] stag
gcred. when l walked. Having received nc
benefit from the use Of patent medicines,
and feeling that | was constantly growing
worse, l then, upon advice. began the use
of electric belts, PADS, and all the many
different kinds Of electric appliances !
could hear of, and spent hundreds OF
dollars for them, Tut they did me 10 good.
GIere Mr. QUAINT Sho we'd the Journal re-
porter an electric suit of underwear, foI
which he paid SPA IN the fallof 1855 the
doctors advised a change of climate, so ]
went to Att anta, Ga, and acted as agent
for the Estey Organ Company While
there | took q thorough electric treatment,
but it only Sc cmcl to a@grayate my DIS
ease, and the only relief | could get from
the sharp and distressing pains was to talk c
morphine. The pain was 50 intense at
times that il sec med as though l could not
stand 1t, and | aim long"l for
death as the only certain relief. In Sep
TENDER Of leSs my legs gave out entirely
and my left eye was drawn to one side.
so that | lad double sight and was dizzy.
My trouble so affected my whole nervous
s5stem that I had to give up business
Then | returned to New York and went t.
tie Roosevelt Hospital. where for fouI
mcntls l was treated by specialists and
they pronounced my case !oCOmotor ataxia
and incurabe After | had been under
treatment by Prof Starr and DR. Ware for
four months. they told me they had done
all they could for ne. Then | went TO the
New York Hospital on Fifteenth street,
where, up examination, they said / WIS
incurable and would not take me in. At
the pge,byi erian Hospital they examined
me and told ne the same thing. in March,
1899, l was taken t: st. Peters Hospital in
Albany, where Prof II. II. Hun frankly
told my wife my case was hopeless; that he
could no nothing for Inc 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 ! remained
secured no benefit All this time /
had been growing worse. l had be-
come entirely paralyzed from my
waist down, an had partly lost control OF
my hands. The pain was terrible; my legs
felt a, though they were freezing and my
| stomach would not retain food, and l fell
| away to 120 pounds. II the Albany Hos
| pital they put seventeen big burns on my
| back one day with red-h0t irons and after
| o few days they put fourteen more burns
| on. and treated me with electricity, but |
| got worse rather than better, lost control
| of my towels ana water, and, upon advice
| If the doctor, who said there was no hope
! for me | was brought home, where it vas
| thought that death would soon come to re-
| lcye me of my spfferingS- Last September
| while in this suffering and helpless condition,
| friend of mine in Iiamiit II, Ont, called
| my attention to the statement of one John
| Marshall, whose case had been similar
| II my own. and who had been cured by
| the use Of DR. Williams Pink Pills for
| Fa}e People In this case Mr. Marshall
| who is a prominent mcnter of the
| Royal Templars OF Temperance. had. after
| four years OF constant treatment by the