The Opelousas courier., 1892-07-02
THE SARATOGA MIRACLE
FURTHER INVESTIGATED BY AN Exc
PRESS REPORTER.
TIE FACTS ALREADY STATED FULLY Con-
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES WITH LEADING
PHYSICIANS VINO TREATED QUAINT
THE MosT MARVELLOUS CASE
IN H History OF MEDt-
T.T. SCIENCE.

q EJIENCts
a few weeks ago an article appeared in
this paper copied from the Albany n. T.,
journal, giving the particulars Of one OF the
most remarkable cures of the 18th century.
The article was under the heading "a
Saratoga Co. Miracle" AMI excited such
widespread comment that another Albany
baper-the Express-ietailed d "a reporter to
make a thorough Investigation Of the state
inents 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 18th. 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 remarkable-indeed so remarkable as
to well Justify the term miraculous
Of a severe case of loconotor ~ataxia, or
creeping paralysis simply by the use OF
Pink Pills for Pale People, aud, i'll 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 i'll the journal, has
been copied into hundreds if not thousands
of other daily and weekly newspapers and
has created sue a fensatlon throughout the
entire country that it was deemed a duty
due all the people, and especially the thou
sands of similarly afH .cted, 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; or,
if false, exposed as an imposition upon public
credulity.
The result Of the Express reporters in
designations authorizes him in saying that
L. +o,-, IF (Nhoginr A Tt,nrttS 11,r,n 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. ", and Brock
Vile, Ontario, IS TRUE, and that all it's
statements are not only Justified but verified
by che 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 a 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 hun
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 buai-
ness and a 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. | was fully six feet
tall, weighed 1876 pounds and was very
strong. For 12 years was travelling sales
MAJ 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 coun-
try houses to freeze an ordinary man to
death, or at least give him the rheuma-
tism. About eight years ago | began to
feel distress in my stomach, n consulted
several doctors about it. They all said it
was dyspepsia, and for dyspepsia | was
treated by various doctors In different
places, and took all the patent medicines |
could hear of that elaine to be a cure for
dyspepsia. But l continued to grow grad.
ually worse for four years. Then | began
to nave pain in my back n legs and be-
came conscious that my legs were getting
weak and my step unsteady, and then l
staggered when | walked. Having received
no benefit from the use of patent medicines.
and feeling that | vas constantly growing
worse, | then, upon advice, began the use OF
electric belts, pads and all the many different
kinds of electric appliances | could hear of,
and spent hundreds of dollars for them, but
they did me 40 good. Here Mr.. QUAINT
showed the journal reporter an electric suit
of underwear, for which he paid Sl24.l In
the fall of 1888 the doctors advised a cIange
of climate, so | vent to Atlanta, Ca, ant
acted as agent for the Estey Organ Com
pany. While there / took a thorough cleo
trio treatment, but it only S eemed 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 hat it seemed as though
could not stand it, and | almost longed for
death as the only certain relief. IN Septem-
Der Of 1888 my legs gave out entirely andmy
left eye was drawn to one side, So that | had
double sight and was dizzy. My trouble 50
affected my whole nervous system that |
had to give up business. Then I returned 30
New York and went to the Roosevelt Hos
pital, where for four months was treated
by specialists and they pronounced my case
1ocomotor ataxia and incurable. After
had been under treatment by Prot. Starr
and DR.. Ware for four months, they told NE
they had done all they coull for me-. Then
/ went to the New York Hospital on Fiji
! teenth street, where, upon examination, they
said | was incurabie and would rot take nj
In. At the Presbyterian Hospital they ex
amined me and told me the same thing. In
March, 1890, I was taken to st. Peters Hos
pital in Albany, where Prof. I'll. Ii. Hun
frankly told my wife my case was hopeless;
that he could do nothing for meand that she
| had better take me back home and save my
money. But | wanted to make a trial oil
Prof. Huns famous skill and remained
under his treatment for min weeks, but Sc
/ cured no benefit. All this time hal been
growing worse. / had become entirely
paralyzed from my waist down an hao
| partly lost control of my hands. The pam
was terrible; my legs felt as though they
were freezing and my stomach would notr re
tain food, and [ fell away to 120 pounds
In the Albany Hospital they put seventeen
big burns on nv back one day with red hoi
irons, and after a few days they put fourteen
more burns on and treated me with cleo
trieity, but | got worse rather than better;
lost control of my bowels and water, and,
upon advice of the doctor, who sac
there was NO hope for me, | was brought
home, where it was thought that death wouic
soon come to relieve me Of my sufferings
Last September, while in this helpless ane
suffering condition, a friend OF mine il
Hamilton, Ont, called my attention to tbs
statement of one John Marshall, whose cast
had been similar to my own. and who hae
been cured by the use of Dr.. Williams PM
Pills for Pale People. In this case Mr. Mar
shall. who is a prominent member of thu
Royal Templars of temperance, had, aftel
four years of constant treatment by thf
most eminent Canadian physicians, beer
pronounced incurable, and paid the sl0U
total disability claim allowed by the order In
such cases. Some months alter Mr.. Mar
shall began a course Of treatment with DIR
Williams Pink Pills, and after taking some
is boxes was fully restored to health.
thought I would try them, and my wife sen
for two boxes of the pills, and | took then
accor ling to the directions onlShe wrappel
on each box. For the first few days the