The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1892-04-16
A SARATOGA co. MIRACLE.
HELPLESS FOR YEARS AND Ex-
GUIDED FROM HOSPITALS
AS INCURABLE.
The Remarkable Experience OF
Chas. QUAINT as Investigated by
IN Albany, N. ", journal Re-
porter--A Story of Sur
passing Interest.
Albany, N. Y. Journal, March 4th.

Albany, N. Y. Journal, March 4th.
SARATOGA, March 4th.-For some
time past there have beenreports here
and elsewhere in Saratoga county ola
most remarkable-indeed, 80 remark
able as to be miraculous--cure of q
most severe case of locomotor ataxia,
o. creeping paralysis, simply by the use
of popular remedy known as "Plnk
Pills for Pale People," prepared and
pat up by the DR.. Williams Medicine
Company, Morristown, N. Y, and
Brockville, Ont. The story was to the
effect that Mr.. Chas. A. QUAINT, OF Gal
way, who for the last six or eight
years has been q great sufferer from
creeping paralysis and it's attendant
ills, and who had become utterly pow
erless of all self-help, had, by the use
of q 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 ofcrutches. The
fame ofthis wonderful, miraculouscu cure
was SO great that the Evening Journ-
al reporter thought it worth his while
to go to Galway to call on Mr.. QUAINT,
to learn from his lips, and from the
observation and testimony of his
neighbours, if his alleged cure was a
fact or only an unfounded rumor. And
SO, he drove to Galway and spent q
day and a night there in visiting Mr..
QUAINT, getting his story and interview
ing his neighbors and fellow-towns-
men. 1t may be proper to say that
Galway is a pretty little village of
about 400 people, delightfully."- located
neal the centre OF thetown OF Galway,
in Saratoga county and about II
miles from Saratoga Springs. Upon
inquiry, the residence OF Mr.. Charles
A. QUAINT was easily found, for every
body seemed to know him, speak well
OF him and to be Overlooking with sur
prise and satisfaction at his wonder
ful cure and restoration to the ac-
Invites OF enterprising citizen.
ship, for Mr.. QUAINT was born
in Galway and had spent most
of hi. life there. Mr.. QUAINT was found
at his pretty home, on a pleasant
street nearly opposite the academy.
In response to a knock at the door it
was opened by a man who, in reply
to an inquiry # Mr.. QUAINT lived there
and vas at home, said: II am Mr..
QUAINT. Will you come in?" Al
ter a little general 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 suffer-
ings, and of the Intellectual treatment
he had had, and of his final cure by
the use of DR.. Williams Pink Pills
for Pale People. and cheerfully
gave assent to its use for pub
location. He said: "My name is
Charles A. QUAINT. I am 81 years old.
l Twas born in the village OF Galway,
and, excepting while travelling on
business and q little while in Amster-
dam, have spent my whole life here:
My wife is a native of Ontario. Up
to about eight years ago had eve
been sick and was then in perfect
health. l was fully six feet tall, weigh
ed 100 pounds and was very strong.
For IL years l was a travelling sales
man for a piano and organ company
and had to do, or at least did do, a
great deal of heavy lifting, got my
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
I began 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 places,
and took all the patent medicines /
could hear of that claimed to be cure
for dyspepsia. But l continued to
grow gradually worse for four years.
Then l began to have pain in my back
and legs and became conscious that
my legs were getting weak and my
step unsteady, and then I staggered
when l walked. Having received no
benefit from the use of patent medi-
cines, and feeling that l was con-
stantly growing worse, then, upon
advice, began the use of electric belts,
pads and all the many different kinds
of electric appliances I could hear
of, and spent hundreds OF dollars
for them, but they did me no
good. lHere Mr.. QUAINT showed
the Journal reporter an electric suit
OF underwear for which he paid $124).
In the fall of 1883 the doctors advised
a change of climate, so l went to
Atlanta, Ca, and acted vs. agent for
the Estey Organ Company. While
there I took a thorough electric treat
ment, but it only seemed to aggravate
my disease, and the only relief l could
get from the sharp and distressing
was to take morphine. The
pain was SO intense at times that it
seemed rs though I could not stand
it, and I almost longed for death as
the only certain relief. In September
Of 1888 my legs gave out entirely and
my left eve was drawn to one side, so
that I had double sight and was dizzy.
trouble so effected my whole rer-
system that I had to give up
business. Then I returned to New
York and went to the Roosevelt
hospital, where for four months / was
treated by specialists and they
pronounced my case locomotor
ataxia and 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,
upon examination, they said
I wGs incurable and would not take
me in. At the Presbyterian hospital
they examined me and told me the
same thing. In March, 1890, l was
taken to St. Peters hospital in Al
bany, where Prof. II. III. Hunfrankly
told my wife my case was hopeless;
that he could do nothing for me and