Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-10-29
A SARATOGA CO. MIRACLE.
HELPLESS FOR YEARS AND EX-
CLUDED FROM HOSPITALS
AS INCURABLE.

Chas. QUAINT as Investigated
by an Albany (N. W Jour-
nal RepOrter@A Story of
Surprising Interest.
(Albony ~ Y Jo,rnaL)
For some time past there have been re-
ports here and elsewhere in Saratoga county
of a most remarkable-indeed SO remark
able as to be miraculous-cure of q most
severe case of locomotor ataxia or creeping
paralysis, simply by the use of q popular
remedy known as "Pink Pills for Pale Peo-
/ ple," prepared and put up by the DR..
Williams Medicine Company. Schenectady,
N. Y. and Brockville, Ont The story was to
the effect that Mr.. Charles A QUAINT of Gal
way, who for the last six or eight years has
been great sufferer from creeping paralysis
and its attendant ills, and who had become
utterly powerless of all selfhelp. had,
by the use of 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 mid OF cru ches. The
fame of this wonderful. miraculous cure was
30 great that the Eue1,ing Journal 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 neighDors, If his alleged cure was a fact
drove to Galway and spent a day and
night there in visiting Mr.. QUAINT, getting
his story and interviewing his neighbors
and fellow-townsmen. 1t may be proper to
say that Galway is pretty little village of
about 400 people, delightfully."- located near
the center Of the town of Galway. i'll Sara
toga county, and about Hmiles from Sara
toga Springs. Upon inquiry, the residence
of Mr. Chas. A. QUAINT was easily found, for
everybody seemed to know him, speak we'll
of him and to be overlooking with surprise
and satisfaction ut his wonderful cure and
restoration to the activities of enterprising
citizenship. for Mr. QUAINT was born in Cal
way and had spent most of his life there.
MI QUAINT was found at his pretty home, on
a pleasant street nearly opposite the acad-
emy. In response to o knock at the door it
was opened by q man who, in reply to an
inquiry If Mr.. QUAINT lived there and was
at home, said: II am Mr.. QUAINT. Will you
come inf" After a little general and pre-
liminary 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 sufrerings, and OF
the Intellectual treatment he had had, and of
his final cure by the use of DIR. williams
Pink Pills for Pale People, and cheerfully
gave assent to its use for publication. He
said: "My name is Charles A. QUAINT. am
81 years old, I was born in the village and
have spent my 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. I was fully six feet tall,
weighed $50 pounds and was very strong.
For IL years I was travelling salesman for
piano and organ company, and had to do,
or at least did DO, great deal of heavy lift
Inc L.
slept in enough spare beds in country
houses to freeze an ordinary man to death,
or at least give him the rheumatism. About
eight years ago 1 began to feel dis
rress in my stomach and consulted several
doctors about it. They oil said 1t was dys-
pepsfa, 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 gradually worse for four
years. Then I began to have pains in my
back and legs and became conscious that
my legs were getting weak and my
step unsteady, and then 1 stagger-
ed when I walked. Having received
no benefit from the use of pat
ent medicines, and feeling that was con-
stautly growing worse, I then, upon
advice, began the use of electric
belts, pads and all the many differ.
ent kind of electric appliances 1 could hear
of, and spent hundreds of dollars for them,
but they did me no good. (Here Mr.. QUAINT
showed the Journal reporter an electric suit
of underwear for which he paid $124.) III
the fall of 1858 the doctors advised change
of climate, so 1 went to Atlanta, Ga, and
acted as agent for the Estey Organ Com
pany. While there. took a thorough eiec-
trio treatment, but it only seemed to aggra-
vate my disease, and the only relief could
get from the sharp and distressing pains was
to take morphine. The pain was so intense
at times that it seemed rs though could
not stand it, and / almost longed for death
as the only certain relief In September of
1883 my legs gave out entirely and my left
eye was drawn to one side, so that had
double sight and was dizzy. My trouble so
affected my whole nervous system that
had to give up business. Then 1 returned
to New York and went to the Roosevelt
Hospital, where for four months I was
treated by specialists, and they pronounced
my case locomotor ataxia and incurable.
After 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 1 was incurable and would not
take me in. AT the Presbyterian Hospital
they eXamlne0 me anu tOlU me the same
thing. In March, $780, l 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 wanted to make
a trial of Prof Huns famous skill, and re.
manned 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 control of my hands. The pain
was terrible: my legs felt as though they
were freezing and my stomach would not
retain food, and I fell away to 120
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 "A
more burns on and treated me with cleo
tricity, but got worse rather than bettor;
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, q friend OF mine in Hamilton,
Ont, called my attention to the statement
OF one John Marshall. whose case had been
similar to my own, and who had been cured
by the use of DR.. Williams Pink Pills for
Pale People.
SIN this case, MIR. Marshall, who is prom.
inent member OF the Royal Templars of
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