The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1894-09-17
A MIRACLE IN VERMONT,
THE WONDERFUL EXPERIENCE OF A WELL
KNOWN CHELSEA MAN.
Stricken with an Incurabie Disease
and Yet Cured-lfis Personal
Statement In Detail.

From The Argus and Patriot, Montpelier, VI
This is an age of progress and everything
that halls the advance of new ideas for the
good of humanity is nailed with delight.
1t is the province of newspapers TO watch
for strange events phenomena of any
kind and to Immediately investigate re-
ported case out of the line of regular COM
munity happenings. So when the story OF
Mr.. George Hutchinson. of Chelsea, VT,
and how he had been raised from a bed
where he lay stricken with a supposedly
incurable disease was told, The Argus and
Patriot detailed a reporter to look up the
reported facts of the case, TO whom Mr..
Hutchinson made the following statement:
II am a native of Massachusetts, a wood
worker by trade, and forty years of age,
ana for the past fifteen years have been
working in various sawmil.s in Vermont
and Massachusetts. Eight years ago L
moved from Bradford to Chelsea and bought
the sawInll OF which l am now proprietor.
] was in perfect healrh and known through
ont Chelsea and vicinity as one OF the
strongest men CT my weight in that seceOn.
December 10, 1882, was hurt by piece of
flying board as l was at work in the mill.
After that, l began slowly TO lose my
strength and became incapacitated for work
or effort of any kind. The seat of my
trouble seemed TO be my sack, but it gradu-
ally extended downward. L consulted all
the local physicians and was treated by two
of them, but the medicines they administer
ed were not of the slightest avan and did
not check the disease in the least. IN fact,
l was miserable victim OF locom0tor
ataxia ana was conscious of a steady adj
vance of the insidious disease. Ny back
ached continuity and my LEGS began 10 grow
numb and TO he less and less disable BY
the 18th of April / could do absolutely MOTH
ing and was scarcely able to stand. My
rf-Y,l~ NT4~g
Fletcher hospital at Burlington, 10 be trea T.
ed, and l took their advice. When L left
home my friends bade me g0odby, never
expecting TO see me alive again. The ply
sicians at the hospital tod me that my case
serious one and / was completely dis
coUraged. / remained at the hospital seven
weeks ana took the medicines WhiGh the
doctors gave me. j felt better at the hos
pital and thought that l was recovering,
and went home to continue their treatment.
which I did for two months, and also had
an electric battery under their advice. The
Improvement, however. did not continue
and l began to give up nope. August l,
1913, could not Set GUL OF my cEalr WIN
ont assistance and if 1 got down upon ths
floor l could not get up alone. About this
time / CHANGED to read an account of tbs
wonderful curative powers Of DT. Will
iams's Pink Pills for Pale People in cases
similar to my own. J cid not nave any
faith in the pills but thought ii trial could
do no harm, 40 l bought some without tell
ing any ore what [ WAS COINS to do. Alter
] had been taking them some time I sur
prised myself by getting out of my caair
without assistance, aad f9uGd that, Tor the
first time in months l was able 10 walk
down 10 the pOStoffice and ply Gei-h00rs
began to discuss the marked Improvement
in my health. As / continued the medicine
/ continued to improve, and soon reeom-
menced work in the mill, at first very light-
", and increasing as I was able and - I
gained in health and spirits, and now for
the past three months / have been working
ten hours per day almost - steadily As I