The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1893-04-21
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Toronto Duily Globe. July 25.-Thi>
is an age of doub especially III regard
to cures by patent medicines. and not
without reason, for TOO often have
the sick and their dear loved ones
been deceived by highly recommends
ed nOStrumS that were swallowed TO
be Of less avail than 50 much water
The old, old fable Of the boy and the
wolf applies also too frequently to
many of the specific corrections for
curing the ills that flesh is heir to:
and when a real cure is effected 10y
genuine remedy those who might be
benefited fight shy Of it, saying, ut
was cure, cure, SO often before that
| wont try it," When such state
of affairs exist it is advisable that
assurance should be made dOubly sure.
A few weeks ago a marvellous and
almost miraculous cure was made
known to Canadians through the
medium, of the Hamilton newspapers.
1t was stated that Mr. John Marshall,
a well-known resident ofHamilton, by
the aid of Dr. Williams Pink Pills for
Pale People, had been snatched from
the very jaws of death, placed upon
his feet and enabled to miDgle with
his fellow citizens with more than re-
newed health and strength and even
brighter spirits than he han expert
enced for years before. This remark
able sta tement naturally excited the
wonder of almost a continent. Some
believed most people doubted,
although the facts were placed so
II, IL 20 nd off hn eli hit nSf
suspicion Of fraud. To investigate
the very extraordinary cure and place
before the people OF Canada and the
United States verficatiOn or other
wise of it was the special mission of
Globe reporter few days ago.
A close inquiry into the circum-
stances first showing that Mr.. John
Marshall, whose residence is % Little
William street, in the northeast pOr-
tion of the city, while employed as
foreman for theCanadianOilC ompany
five years ago, fell upon the edge of an
oil vat and hurt his back. Thinking
little of the affair, Mr.. Marshall con-
tinued to work on, but after few
months he became ILL., gradually got
worse, and in August, four years ago,
became stricken with the dread dis
ease, locomotor ataXy-a disease
attacking the nerves and rendering
that portion of the system attacked
perfectly helpless, proclaimed by the
physicians to be ncurable-which
left him nfrom the waist downwards
without feeling and utterly unable to
move his lower limbs. All he was
able to do was to raise himself by the
aid of sticks and crutches and drag
himself around the house and Occasi-
Onally to the corner of the street on
fine days. His legs were without
feeling, pins and even knives were
stuck into them without the sick
man experiencing any inconvenience.
He could take walking stick and
beat his legs until the blows resound-
ed through the house and yet he felt
nothing. During these years of torture
Mr.. Marshall consulted every doctor
of ability in the city:tried every form
of treatment and took almost every
kind of patent medicine, but with
out receiving one little of relief The
agony was frequently so intense that
| he was obliged to take morphine pills
in order to receive reasonable
amount of sleep.
| As the months and years passed by,
although the doctors continued to
treat him in various ways, they
plainly told the suffering man that he
could not get better, the disease was
set down in the works of specialists
as incurable. The doomed man was
member of the United Empire
Council, No. 100, Royal Templers of
and under the discourag-
ing circumstances he thought it
advisable to apply for the payment of
the total disability claim of 81 900 al
lowed by the order on it's insurance
policy. Application was accordingly
made, but before the claim was
granted the patient had to offer con-
elusive proof of his total disability to
the chief examiner and Mr. Marshall
was sent to Toronto for a special
electrical treatment. 1t proved no
more successful than the others that
had preceded it, and a number of city
doctors and the chief medical ex-
aminer of the order signed the
medical certificate of total disability
and Mr.. Marshall received from the
Dominion Councillor of the Royal
Templers check for 81 900 last Nov
ember. One day last February came
Mr.. MarShall's salvation although he
did not accept it at first. A small
pamphlet telling of DR.. Williams Pink
Pills and the disease they cured,
was thrown into the house, but it
was p1a pnd acida opd no pot;oo moe