Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1892-03-26
A SARATOGA co. MIRACLE.
HELPLESS FOR YEARS AND Ex-
CLUDED FROM HOSPITALS
AS 1NCURABLE.
The REMARKABLE ExPERrKscE OF CHAs.
QUAINT AS INVESTIGATED by AN Al
BANr On. Y } JOURNAL REPORT
ERA STORY OF SUR

PASSING INTEREST.
Albany, n Y Journal, March 18th.
SARATOGA. March 1tth.-For some time
past there have been reports here and else
where in Saratoga County Of most remark
able-indeed, so remarkable as to be miracu-
obscure of a most severe case of locomotor
ataxia, or creeping paralysis, simply by the
lse Of popular remedy known as Pink
Pills for Pale People" prepared and put 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 Galway, who for the last six
or eight years has been a great sufferer from
creeping paralysis and its attendant ills and
who had become utterly powerless OF all
self-help, 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 aid of crutches.
The fame of this wonderful, miraculous cure
was so great that the Evening Journal re-
porter thought it worth his while TO 90 to
Galway to call on Mr.. QUAINT to learn from
his lips and from the observation and testi-
monY of his neighbors, il his alleged cure
was a fact or only an unfounded rumor
And 80 he drove to Galway and spent 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 a pretty little
located near the centre of the town
of Galway, in Saratoga County, and
about IL miles from Saratoga Springs
Upon inquiry the residence of Mr..
Charles A. QUAINT was easily found, for
everybody seemed to know him, speak well of
him, and to be overlooking with surprise and
satisfaction at his wonderful cure and restor-
alton to the activities of enterprising citi-
zenship, for Mr.. QUAINT was born in Galway
and had spent most of his life there. Mr.
QUAINT was found at his pretty home, on a
pleasant street nearly opposite the academy.
In response to knock at the door it was
opened by 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 little general and preliminary CONVEX
sation, aud after he had been appraised 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 sufferings, and of the Intellectual
treatment he had had, and of his final cure
by the use of Or. Williams's 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.
was born in the village of Galway. and, ex-
cepting while travelling on business and a
little while in Amsterdam, have spent my
whole life here. My wife is native of
Ontario. Up to about eight years ago had
health. was fully six feet tall, weighed
$50 pounds and was very strong. For twelve
years was a travelling salesman for piano
and organ company and had to do, or at least
did do, 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 began
TO feel distressed N my stomach and con
suited several doctors about it. They all
said it was dyspepsia, and for dyspepsia
was treated by various doctors in differen,
places, and took all the patent medicines
could hear of that claimed to be a cure for
dyspepsia. But continued to grow grad.
ually 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 staggere /
when 1 walked. Having received no benefit
from the use OF patent medicines, and feeling
that was constantly growing worse, then,
upon advice, began the use o. electric belts,
pads and all the many different kinds OF
electric appliances could hear OF, ami spent
hundreds of dollars for them, but they did
me no good. Here Mr.. QUAINT showed the
Journal reporter an electric suit of under
wear for which he paid S124.) In the fall OF
1888 the doctors advised change of china te
so | went TO Atlanta, Ga, and acted as agent
Tor the Estey Organ Company. While there
took thorough electric treatment, but it
only seemed to aggravate my disease, and
the only relief l could get from the sharp
and distressing pains was to take NOR
phine. The pain was so intense at times
that it seemed as though l 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 wa,
drawn to one side, so that | haC
| double sight and was dizzy. My
that had to give up business. Then | re
turned to New York and went to the RooSe-
welt hospital, 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 l went to the New York hospital on
| Fifteenth street, where, upon examination,
they said l was incur able and would not take
me in. At the Presbyterian hospital they
examined me and told me the same thing.
In March, 1890, was taken to st. Peters,
hospital in Albany, where Prof. H. n. 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 tria
| of Prof. HUNS famous skill and / remained
under his treatment for niue weeks, but Sc
cured no benefit. All this time l had been
| growing worse. l 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 100 pounds
In the Albany hospital they put II big
burns on my back one day with red hot
! irons, and after a few days they put IA
, more burns on and treated me with cleo
tricity, but got worse rather than better;
lost control of my bowels and water, and
upon advice of the doctor, who said there
was no hope for me, l was brought home,
| where it was thought that death would soon
come to relieve me of my sufferings. Last
September, while in this helpless and suffer
| ing condition, a friend of mine in Hamilton
Ont, called my attention to the statement
| of one John Marshall, whose case had been
| similar to any own, and who had been cure1
| by the use of DR.. Williamss Pink Pills for
| Pale People
''In this case Mr.. Marshall, who is promt-
nent member of the Royal Templars of
| Temperance had after four years of con-
| slant treatment by the most eminent Cana
| dian physicians been pronounced incurable,
and was paid the $1,000 total disability claim
| allowed by the order in such cases. Some
| months after Mr.. Marshall began a course of
treatment with DR.. Williams's Pink Pills,
and after taking some Is boxes was fully re-
| stored to health.
81 thought would try them, and my wife
| sent for two boxes of the pills and | took
them according to the directions given on
| the wrapper on each box. For the first few
days the cold baths were pretty severe, as |
| was SO very weak, but continued to follow
instructions as to taking the pills and treat
ment, and even before | had used up the
two boxes of pills l began to feel beneficial
| effects from them. My pains were not so
bad; | felt warmer; my head felt better
my food began to relish and agree with me;
| could straighten up; the feeling began to
come back into my limbs; | began to
| be able to get about on crutches; my eve
came back again as good as ever, and now
after the use of eight boxes of the pills-at a
cost of only "a. 00-seel II can, with the help
| of a cane only, walk all about the house and
| yard can saw wood, and on pleasant DAYS
walk down town. My stomach trouble is
gone; l have gained 10 pounds; | feel like
new man, and when the spring opens ex-
| pect to be able to renew my organ and piano
| agency. l cannot speak in too high terms of
DR.. Williams's Pink Pills for Pale People,
as know they saved my life after all the
doctors had given me up as incurable."
Other citizens of Galway, seeing the won
derful cure of Mr.. QUAINT by the Pink Pills
| for Pale People, are using them. Frederick
| Sexton, a sufferer from rheumatism, said be
was finding great benefit from their use, and
| Mr.. Schultz, who had suffered from chronic
| dysentery for years said he had taken two
boxes of the pills and was already cured.
Mr.. QUAINT had also tried Faith cure. with
experts Of that treatment in Albany and
Greenville, s. c., but with no beneficial re-
suits
A number Of the more prominent citizens
| OF Galway, as Rev. {. E. Herbert, Of the
Presbyterian church; Prof James L. Kelly,
| principal of the academy; John p. and Har-
| vey Crouch, and Frank and Edward Willard
merchants, and many others to whom Mr..