Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1892-05-13

FURTHER INVESTIGATED BY AN EX-
PRESS REPORTER


F1RMED-INTERvIEws WITH LEADING
PHYSICIANS WHO TREATED QUAINT
THE Mcsr MARVELLOUS CASE
INTHE HISTORY OF MEDI-
CAL SCIENCE.
s few weeks ago an article appeared in
this paper copied from the Albany, n. Y,
Journal, giving the particulars OF one OF the
most remarkable cures of the 10Th century.
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 elected by the Express reporter
are given in the following article, which ap-
peared in that paper on April 10th, and
makes one OF the most interesting stories
ever related
A few weeks ago there was published in
the Albany Evening Journal the story of a
most remarka blended so remarkable as
to well justify the term ''miraculous"-cur
Of a severe case Of locomotor ataxia, or
creeping paralysis simply by the use OF
Pink Pills for Pale People, and, in comply
ance with instructions, an Express Reporter
has been devoting some time in a 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 thousands
of other daily and weekly newspapers and
has created such sensation throughout the
entire country that it was deemed duty
due all the people, and especially the thou
sands Of similarly afflicted, that the state
ments of the case as made in the Albany
Journal, and copied into SO many other
newspapers should, if true, be verified; CT,
if false, exposed as an imposition upon public
credulity.
The result of the Express reporters in.
vestigations authorizes him i'll saying that
the story of Charles a. Quant's cure of
locomotor ataxia by the use of Pink Pills
tor Pale People, popular remedy prepared
and put up by the Dr.. Williams Medicine
VILE Ontario IS TRUE, anu that all its
statements are not only justified but verified
by the fuller development OF the further
facts of the case.
Perhaps the readers of the Express are
not all of them fully familiar with the de-
tails of this miraculous restoration to health
of man who after weeks and months OF
treatment by the most skillful 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 9TH
ers to which application was made in his be-
half. The story as told by Mr.. QUAINT him
self and published in the Albany journal, is
as follows:
My name is Charles A. QUAINT; am 81
years old; | was born in the village of Gal
way and excepting while travelling on bust
ness and little while in Amsterdam, have
spent nay whole life here. Up to about eight
years ago | had never been sick and was
then in perfect health. I was fully six feet
tall, weighed 1870 pounds and was very
strong. For 10 years was travelling sales
man tor 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 coun-
try houses to freeze an ordinary man to
death, or at least give him the rheuma-
tism. About eight years ago l began to
feel distress IN my stomach, and consulted
several doctors about it. They all said it
was dyspepsia, and for dyspepsia | was
treated by various doctors in different
places, anu took all the patent medicines l
could hear OF that elaine to be a cure for
dyspepsia. But 1 continued to grow grad
ually worse for four years. Then [ began
to have pain in my back and legs and be-
came conscious that my legs were getting
weak and my step unsteady, and then |
staggered 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 and all the many different
kinds OF electric appliances l 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 Spa In
the fall of 1888 the doctors advised a cnange
of climate, SO | went to Atlanta, Ga, and
acted as agent for the Estey Organ Com
pany. While there [ took a thorough cleo
rric treatment, but 1t only saemed 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 in
tense at times that it seemed as though |
could not stand it, and l almost longed for
death as the only certain relief. In Septem-
Der of 1888 my legs gave out entirely and my
left eye was drawn to one side, so that 1 had
double sight and was dizzy. My trouble so
affected my whole nervous system that [
had to give up business. Then returned to
New York and went to the Roosevelt Hos
pital, where for four months [ was treated
by specialists and they pronounced my case
locomotor ataxia and incurable. After l
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
| went to the New York Hospital on Fiji
teenth street. where, upon examination, they
said was lncurable and would not take me
in. At the Presbyterian Hospital they ex-
amined me and told me the same thing. In
March, 1890, was taken to st. Peters Hos
pital in Albany, where Prof. H. 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 / wanted to make a trial of
Prof. Huns famous skill and l remained
under his treatment for nine weeks, but Sc
cured no benefit All this time l 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 re-
tain food, and [ fell away to 120 pounds.