Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 March 1892 — SARATOGA CO. MIRACLE [ARTICLE]

SARATOGA CO. MIRACLE

HELPLESS FOR YEARS AND EXCLUDED FROM HOSPITALS AS INCURABLE. Tho Remarkable Experience o! Chat. Quant aa Investigated by an Albany (N. I.) Journal Reporter—A Story of Surpassing Interest. , [Albany, N. Y., Journal. March 4.] Saratoga, March 4. —For some time past there have been reports here and elsewhere in Saratoga County of a most remarkable —indeed, so remarkable as to be miraculous—cure of a most severe case of locomotor ataxia, or creeping paralysis, simply by the, use of a popular remedy known as “Pink Pills for Pale People,” prepared and put up by the Dr. Williams Medicine Company, Morristown, N. Y. and Brockvllle; Ont. The story was to tho effect that Mr. Charles A. Quant, 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 a few boxes of the Pink Pills for Pale People, been so fully restored to health as tp bo able to. walk about the street without the aid of crutches. Tho fame of this wonderful, miraculous cure was so great that the Evening Journal reporter thought It worth his while to go to Galway to call on Mr. Quant, to learn from his lips, and from the observation and testimony of his neighbors, if his alleged cure was a fact or only an unfounded rumor. And so he drove to Galway and spent a day and a night there in visiting Mr. Quant, getting his story, and interviewing His neighbors and fellow-townsmen. It may be proper to say that Galway is a pretty little village of 400 people, delightfully located near the center of the town of Galway, in Saratoga County, and aboilt 17 miles from Saratoga Springs. Upon inquiry, tho residence of Mr. Charles A. Quant was easily found, for everybody seemed to know him, speak well of him, and to be overflowing with surprise and satisfaction at his wonderful cure and restoration to the activities of enterprising citizenship, for Mr. Quant "was born in Galway and had spent most of his life there. Mr. Quant was found at his pretty home, on a pleasant street nearly opposite the academy. In response to a knock at the door it was opened by man who, in reply to an inquiry if Mr. Quant lived there and was at home, said: “I am Mr. Quant. Will you come in?” After a little general and preliminary conversation, and after he had been apprised 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 ineffectual treatment he had had, and of his final cure by the use of Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills for Pale People, and cheerfully gave assent to its use for publication. He said: “My name is Charles A. Quant. lam 37 years old. I was bom in the village of Galway, and, excepting while traveling on business and a little while in Amsterdam, have spent my whole life here. My wife is a native of Ontario. Up to about eight years ago I had never bedii sick and was then in perfect health. I was fully six feet tall, weighed 180 pounds and was very strong. Por twelve years I was a traveling salesman 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 slopt 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 I began to feel distress in my stomach and consulted several doctors about it. They all said it was dyspepsia, and for dyspepsia I was treated by various doctors in different places, and took all the patent medicines I could hear of that claimed to be a cure for dyspepsia. But I continued to grow gradually worse for four years. Then I began to have pain in my back and legs and became conscious that my legs were getting weak and my step unsteady, and then I staggered when I walked. Having received no benefit from the use of patent medicines, and feeling that I was constantly growing -worse, I then, upon advice, began the use of electric belts, pads and all the many different kinds of electric appliances I could hear of, and spent hundreds of dollars for them, but they did me no good.” (Here Mr. Quant showed the Journal reporter an electric suit of uriierwear for which he paid $124.) “In the fall of 1888 the doctors advised a change of climate, so I went to Atlanta, Ga., and acted a? agent for the Estey Organ Company. While there I took a thorough electric treatment, but it only seemed to aggravate my disease, and the only relief I could get from tho sharp and distressing pains was to take morphine. The pain was so intense at times that it seemed as though I could not stand it, and I almost longed for death as the only certain relief. In September of 1888 my legs gave out entirely, and my left eye was drawn to one side, so that I had double sight and was dizzy. My trouble so affected my whole nervous system that I had to give up business. Then I returned to New York and went to the Boosevelt Hospital, where for four months I was treated by specialists and they pronounced my case', locomotor ; ataxia and incurable. After I had been under treatment of Prof. Starr and Dr. j Ware for four months, they told me they | had done all they could for mer. Then I I went to the New York hospital on Fifteenth street, where, upon examination, ! they said I was incurable and would not take me in. At the Presbyterian hospital : they examined me and told me the same thing. In March, 1890, I was taken to St. Peter’s hospital in Albany, where Prof. H. H. Hun frankly told my wife j my case was hopeless; that he could do nothing for me, and that sh,e had better .take me back home and save my j money. But I wanted to make a ! trial of Prof. Hun’s famous skill, and I, remained under his treatment for nine weeks, but secured no benefit. AJI this time I had been growing worse. I had- become entirely paralyzed from ; my waist down and had partly lost control of hands. The pain was terrible; my legs felt as though they were freez--1 lng and my stomach would not retain i foodj and I fell away to 120 pounds. In | the Albany hospital they put seventeen ! big bums on my back one day with redhot irons, and after a few days they put | fourteen moFe bums on and treated me ! with electricity, but I got worse rather ! than better; lost control of my bowels 1 and water, and upon advice of the dootor, who said there was no hope for me, I 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 suffering condition, a friend of mine In Hamilton, Ont., called my attention to the

statement of one John Marshall, whose case had been similar to my own, and who had been cured by the use of Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills for Pale People. “In this case Mr. Marshall, who Is a prominent member of the Royal Templars of Temperance, had after four years of constant treatment by the most eminent Canadian physicians been pronounced incurable, and was paid the SI,OOO total disability claim allowed by the order in such cases. Some months after Mr. Marshall began a course of treatment with Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills, and after taking some 15 boxes was fully restored to health. “I thought I would try them, and my wife sent for two boxes of the pills and I took them according to the directions given on the wrapper in each box. For the first few days the cold baths were pretty severe, as I was so very weak, but I continued to follow instructions as to taking the pills and treatment, and even before I had used up the two boxes of pills I began to feel beneficial effects from them. My pains were not so bad; I felt warmer; my head felt better; my food began to relish and agree with me; I could straighten up; the feeling began to come back into my limbs; I began to be able to get about on crutches; my eye came back again as good as ever, and now, after the use of eight boxes of the pills—at a cost of $4 —see!—I can with the help of a cane only, walk all about the house and yard, can saw wood, and on pleasant days I walk down town. My stomach trouble is gone; I have gained ten pounds; I feel like a new man, and when the spring opens I expect to be able to renew my organ and piano agency. I cannot speak In too high terms of Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills for Pale People, as I know they saved my life after all the doctors had given me ■ up as incurable.” Other citizens of Galway, seemg the 1 wonderful cure of Mr. Quant by the Pink Pills for Pale People, are using them. Frederick Sexton, a suffererfrom . rheumatism, said he 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. Quant had also tried faith cure, ! with experts of that treatment in Albany and Greenville, 8. C., but with no beneficial results.

A number of the more prominent citizens of Galway, as Eev. C. E. Herbert, of the Presbyterian Church; Prof. Jas. E. Kelly, principal of the academy; John P. and Harvey Crouch, and Frank and Edward Willard, merchants, and many others to whom Mr. Quant and his so miraculous cure by the use of Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills for Pale People are well known, were pleased to have the opportunity of bearing testimony to the high character of Mr. Quant, and of verifying the story of his recovery from the terrible affliction from which he had for so long a time been a sufferer. Truly, the duty of the physician is not to save life, but to heal disease. The remarkable result from the use of Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills in the case of Mr. Quant, induced the reporter to make further inquiries concerning them, and he ascertained that they are not a pat-, ent medicine in the sense in which that term is generally used, but a highly scientific preparation, the result of years of study and careful experiment. They have no rival as a blood builder and nerve restorer, and have met with unparalleled success in the treatment of such diseases as paralysis, rheumatism, sciatica, St. Vitus’ dance, palpitation of the heart, that tired feeling which affects so many, and all diseases aepending upon a watery; condition of the blood or shattered nerves. Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills are also a specific for.tioubles peculiar to females, such as suppressions, irregularities, and all forms of weakness. They build up the blood and restore the glow of health to pale or sallow cheeks. In the case of men they effect a radical cure in all cases arising from mental worry, overwork, or excesses of whatever nature. On further inquiry the writer found that these pills are manufactured by the Dr. Williams Medicine Company, Brockvillo, Ont., and Morristown, N. Y., and are sold in boxes (never in bulk by the hundred)' at 50 cents a box, or six boxes for $2.50, and may be had of all druggists or direct by mail from Dr. Williams’ Medicine Company, from either addresses. The price at which these pills are sold makes a course of treatment comparatively Inexpensive as compared with other remedies or medical treatment.