The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-05-19
THE HAMILTON MIRACLE.
THE CASE INVESTIGATED BY
A GLOBE REPORTER.
THE FACTS FULLY VERIFIED
One of the Most Remarkable Cases on
Record.

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Record.
A Man Pronounced by Eminent Physi-
cians Permanently Disabled Fully
Recovers-Fac-simile of the Check
for ST. 90 Paid by Royal Tenn
plars of Temperance for
Total Disability-Hund-
reds of Visitors.
TORONTO DAILY GLOBE, July 25.-This
is an age of doubt; especially in regard to
cures by patent medicines, and not without
reason, for too often have the sick and
their near and dear loved ones been decei-
we'd by highly recommended nostrums that
were swallowed to be of less avail than as
much water. The old, old fable of the
boy and the wolf applies also too frequent
ly to many of the specific connections for
curing the ills that flesh is heir to; and
when real cure is effected by a genuine
remedy those who might be benefited fight
shy of it, saying, sit was cure, cure so
often before that l won't try it." When
such state of affairs exists it is advisable
that assurance should be made doubly
sure.
A few weeks ago a marvellous and al
most 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
of Hamilton, 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 min
than renewed health and strength and
even brighter spirits than he had expert
enced for years before. This remarkable
statement naturally excited the wonder of
almost a continent. Some believed, most
people doubted, although the facts were
placed so clearly as to ward off the slight
est suspicion Of fraud. To investigate
the very extraordinary cure and place be-
fore the people of Canada and the United
States verificatiOn or otherwise of it was
the special mission of GLOBE reporter
a few days ago.
A close inquiry into the circumstances
first showed that Mr.. John Marshall,
whose residence is % Little William street
in the northeast portion of the city, while
employed as foreman for the Canadian
Oil Company, five years ago, fell upon the
edge of an oil vat and hurt his back.
Thinking little of the affair. Mr.. Marshall
continued to work on, but after few
months he became i'll, gradually got worse,
and in August, four years ogo, became
stricken with the dread disease, locomo-
tor ataXya disease attacking the nerves
and rendering that portion of the system
attacked perfectly helpless, proclaimed by
the physicians to be which left
him from 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 occasionally 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 resounded through
the house and yet he felt nothing. Du-
| ring all these years of torture Mr.. Mar
shall consulted every doctor of ability in
the city; tried every form of treatment
and took almost every kind of patent med
| icine, but without receiving one little of
relief. The agony was frequently so in
tense that he was obliged to take morphine
pills in order to receive reasonable a
mount of sleep.
As the months and years passed by, al
though the doctors continued to treat him
in various ways, they plainly told the suf-
ferer that he could not get better, the
difease was set down in the works of
was member of the United Empire
Council, No. 100, Royal Templars of
Temperance, and under the discouraging
circumstances he thought it advisable to
apply for the payment of the total disa-
bility claim of $1,000 allowed by the or
der on its insurance policy. Application
was accordingly made, but before the
claim was granted the patient had to offer
conclusive proof of his total disability to
the chief examiner, and Mr.. Marshal was
sent to Toronto for 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 examiner of the order signed the
medical certificate of total disability and
Mr.. Marshall received from the Domin-
ion Councillor of the Royal Templars a
check for 900 last November. One
day last February came Mr.. Marshalis
salvation although he did not accept it at
first. A small pamphlet telling of DR.
| Williams Pink Pills and the diseases they
cured, was thrown into the house, but il
was placed aside and no notice was taken
of it for weeks. One day the sick mar
reread the circular and concluded to try
DR.. Williams Pink Pills, although Mrs
Marshall tried hard to dissuade hun, say.
ing they would be as Intellectual as all the
others; but on April l4-memorable day
to him-Mr. Marshall began to take the
pills, one after each meal for start. In
a few days a change was noticed and as
he continued to take the pills he gradual
ly improved and in little over a month
he was able to take the train for Toront,
and visit an astonished brother-in-law
Now be can walk four or five miles will
any of his friends.
The GLOBE Representative paid a Wis
it to the house of the man thus rescued
| from q living death, When the reporter