The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1892-05-07
THE SARATOGA MIRACLE
FURTHER INVESTIGATED BY AN
EXPRESS REPORTER.
The Facts Already Stated Fully Con-
firmed--Jnterviews With Leading
Physicians who Treated QUAINT
1.-The Most Marvellous
Case In The History Of
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- Va SAAS AoSAA .
The article was under the heading "a
Saratoga Co. Miracle. and excited such
widespread comment that another Albany
paper-the Express-detailed a reporter to
make a thorough investigation of the state
ments appearing in the Journals article.
The facts as elicitedby the Express reporter
are given in the following article, which
appeared in that paper ON April 10th, and
makes n of the most interesting stories
ever related
A few weeks ago there wa published in
the Albany Evening Journal the story ola
most remarkable-indeed so remarkable as
to we'll justify the term ''niraculous''-
cure ola severe case oflocomotor ataxia,
or creeping paralysis; simply by the use of
Pink Pills for Pale People, and, lin compli-
ance with instructions, an Express reporter
has been devoting some time ina critical
investigation of the real facts of the case.
The story of the wonderful cure of Charles
A. QUAINT of Galway, Saratoga county,
N. Y, as first told in "The Journal" has
been copied into hundreds if not thous-
ands of other daily and weekly newspapers
and has created such a sensation through
out the entire country that it was deemed
a duty due all the people and especially the
thousands of similarly afflicted. that the
statements Of the case as made in "The
Albany Journal" and copied into so many
other newspapers should, if true, be veri-
fed; or, if false, exposed as an imposition
upon public credulity.
The result of the Express reporters in
v~estigation authorizes him i'll saying that
the story of Charles a. Quant's cure of
locomotor ataxia by the use of Pink
Pills for Pale People, a popular remedy
prepared and put up by the DR.. Williams
Medicine Company, Morristown N. Y,
and Rockville Ontario, is TRUE. and
that all its statements are not only justified
but verified by the fuller elopment of
the further facts OF the case.
Perhaps the readers ofth Express are
not all ofthem fully familiar with the de-
tails ofthis miraculous restoration to health
offs man who after weeks and months of
treatment by the most skilltul doctors in
two OF the best hospitals in the state of New
York-the Roosevelt hospital in New York
city and St. Peters hospital in Albany
was dismissed from each as incurable, and,
because the case was deemed incurable, the
man was denied admission into several
others to which application was made in
his behalf. The story as told by MI. QUAINT
himself and published in the Albany Jour-
nal. is as follows
"SIy name is Charles A. QUAINT. I am 81
years old. I was born in the village of Gal
way and excepting while travelling on bust
spent my whole life here. Up to about
eight years ago I had never been sick and
was then in perfect health. l was fully six
feet tall, weighed $50 pounds and was very
strong. For II years l was travelling sales
man for q piano and organ company, and
had to do. or at least did do, a great deal of
heavy lifting, got my meals very IRREGULAR
ly. and slept liz enough spare beds in
country houses to freeze any ordinary man
to death. or at least give him the rheuma-
tism. About eight years ago | began to
feel distress in my stomach, and consulted
several doctors about it. They all said it
was dyspepsia, n for dyspepsia was
places. and took all the patent medicines I
could hear Of that claimed to be u cure for
dyspepsia. But l continued to grow grad
ually worse for four years. Then l began
to have pain in my back and legs and be-
came conscious that my legs were getting
staggered when 1 walked. Having received
no benefit from the use OF patent
medicines, and feeling that 1 was con-
SANITY growing worse. I then, upon advice.
began the use Of electric belts, pads and all
the many different kinds of electric appli-
ances i could hear Of, and spent hundreds
of dollars Tor them. but they did me no
nal reporter an electric suit of underwear,
for which he paid 1924: In the fall Of 1888
the doctors advised q change of climate, SO
/ wen. to Atlanta. Ca, and acted as agent
for the Estey Organ Company. While
there l took a thorough electric treatment,
but it only seemed to a%ggravate my disease,
and the only relief l could get from the
sharp and distressing pains was to take
mort hine. The pain was so intense at
times that it seemed as though could not
stand it, and / almost longed for death as
the only certain relief. In September of
1888 my legs gave out entirely and my left
eye was drawn to n side, SO that had
so effected my whole nervous system that
1 had to give up business. Then / returned
to New York and went to the Roosevelt
hospital. where for four months I was
treated by specialists and they pronounced
my case locomqtor ataxia and
treatment by Prof. Starr and DR.. Ware for
four months, they. told methey had donea all
they could Tor me. Then Iwentto the New
York hospital OH Fifteenth street, where
upon an examination. they said I was in
durable and would not take me in. At the
Presbyterian hospital they examined me
and told me the same thing. In March,
1854. l was taken to st. Peters hospital in
Albany, where Prof. HI. H. 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 I wanted % make u trial OF
Prof. Huns famous skill and l remained
under his treatment for nine weeks, but Sc
cured no benefit. All this time I had been
growing worse. I had become entirely
pparalyzed from my waist down and had
pnartly Host control of my hands. The
ppain was terrible; my legs felt as
though they were freezing and my
stomach would not retain food, and I fell
away to 100 pounds. In the Albany hospi-
tai they put IL big burns on my back one
day with red hot irons and after a few days
thew nut IA more burns on and treated me
with electricity, but I got worse rather
than better: lost control OF my bowels and
water, and upon advice of the coctor. who
said there was no hope Tor me, l was
brought home, where it was thought that
death would sou como to relieve me Of my
smfferings. Last September, while in this
helpless and suffering condition, a friend
Of mine in Hamilton, Ont, called my at
tention to the statement of one John Nor
shall. whose case had been similar to my
and who had been cured by the use of
Dr. Williams Pink Pills for Pale People.
In this case Mr.. Marshall, who is q promi.
nent member OF the Royal Templars of
Temperance had, after f0ur years of con-
slant treatment by the most eminent Cana
dian physicians, been pronounced incur
able. and paid the $1,000 total disability
claim allowed by the order in such cases.
Some months after Mr.. Marshall began Q