Rensselaer Republican, Volume 24, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 March 1892 — A SARATOGA CO. MIRACLE. [ARTICLE]

A SARATOGA CO. MIRACLE.

HELPLESS FOR YEARB AND EXCLUDED FROM HOSPITALB A 8 INCURABLE. Tl>« Remarkabl* Experience of Chari** Quant as Investigated by aa Albany (NY.) Journal Reporter—A Story of Bar passing Interest. [Albany (N. Y.) Journal, March 4.] SAKAfboA. March 4.—For some time past thefa have been reports here and elsewhere in Saratoga County of a most remark able so to be miraculous—cure of a most severe case ’pf 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 Brockville. Out. The story was to the 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 selfhelp, had, by the use of a few boxes of the Pink Pills for Palo People, been so fully restored to health as to be able to walk about the street without the ahl of crutches. The fame of this wonderful, miraculous cure was so great that the Evening Journal reporter thought it worth hid 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 factor 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 nis 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 about 17 miles from Saratoga Springs. Upon inquiry, the 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, oh a pleasant street nearly opposite the academy. In response to a knock at the door it was opened by a man who, in reply to an inquiry if Mr. Quant lived there and was atneme, said: “I am Mr. Quant. Will you come in?” After a little general and preliminary conversation, andaafter 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 ils use for publication. He said: “My name is Charles A. Quant. I am 37 years old, I was born in the village of Galway, and, excepting while traveling on business and a little whilein Amsterdam, have spent my whole life here. My wife is a native of Ontario. Up to about eight years ago I had never been sick and was then in perfect health. I was fully six feet tall, weighed 180 pounds and was very strong. For 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 slept in enough‘spare beds’ in country houses to freeze any ordinary man to death, or at least give him the rheumatism. Abouj eight years ago I bogan 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 coutlnued to row gradually worse for fouryears. Then 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. 1 then, upon advice, began the use of electric belts, pads and all the different kinds of electric applil ances I could hear of, and spent hundreds Of dollars for them, but they did me nogood.” (Here Mr. Quant showed the Journal reporter an electric suit of underwear for which he paid;:sl24,) “In the fell of 1888 the doctors advised a change of climate,} so I went to Atlanta, Ga., and acted as agent for the Estoy 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 the sharp and distressing pains was to take morphine. They were 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 188 S my legs gave out entirely. and my left eye was drawn to one side, so that I had doable 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 Roosevelt Hospital, where for four months I was treated by specialists, and the pronounced my case locomotor ataxia and incurable. A fter I had been under treatment of Prof. Starr and Dr, Ware for four months they told me they had done all they could for me. Then 1 went to the New York hospital on Fiftieth street, where, upon examination, they said I was incurable aud would not take me in. At the Presbyterian hospital they examined me and told me the same thing. In March, 1890,1 was taken to St. Peter’s hospital, in Albany, where Prof, H. H. Hun frankly told my wife my case was hopeless; that he could do nothing for me, aud that she had better take me back home aud Save my money. But I wanted to make' a tpial of cProf. Hun s famous skill, and I. remained under his treatment for mine weeks, but secured no beuefit. All this time I bad been growing worse. I had become’entirely paralyzed trom my waist down and had partly lost control of my hands. The pain was terrible; my legs felt as though they were freezing and my stomach would not retain food, and »l foil away to 130 pounds. In the Albany hosEital they put seventeen big burns on my ack one day with red hot irons, and after & few days they put fourteen more burns on and treated me with electricity, but I got worte rather than better; lost control of my bowels-and water, and updn advice of the doctor wha 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 ita this helples 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 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 incurrable, arid was paid the SI,OOO total Usability claim allowed by the order in . ueh cases. Some months after Mr. Martall began a course of treatment with T. Williams’ Pink Pills, and after taking one 15 boxes was fully restored to health. - T thought I would try them, and my so sent for two boxes or the pills., and I >k them according to the directions on on the wrapper of each box. For first few days the cold baths were retty severe, as 1 was so very weak, but 1 continued to follow instructions as to taking the pills and treatment, aud even heforo I had used up the two boxes of pills I began to feel beneficial effects thorn. My pains were not so bad: I felt, warmer; my bead 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 cratches; my bye came back again as good as ever, and now, after the use of eight boxes of the pills— at a cost of s4—see!—l can, with the help of a cane only, walk all about the house and yard, can saw wood, and on pleasant,. days £ walk down town. My stomach trouble is gone; I have gained ten pounds; 1 feel like a new man, and when spring 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, seeing the wonderful cure of Mr. Quant by the Pink Pills foi Pale People, are using them. Frederick Sexton, a sufferer from rheumatism, said he was finding great benefit from their use, and 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, S. C., but with no beneficial results. A number of the more prominent citizens of Galway, as Rev. C. E. Herbert, of tjhe Presbyterian Church; Prof. Jas.' E. Kelly, principal of the academy; John P. and Harvey Crouch, and Frank and and Edward Willard, merchants, and;, many others to whom Mr. Quant and his, so miraculous cure by the use of Dr. Wil-, Hams’ Pink Pills for Pale People are well known, were pleased to have the oppors tunity 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. William’s 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 patent medicine in the sense in which that term is generally used, but a highly scientific preparation, the result of years of study aud carqful experiment. They have no rival as a building and nerve restorer, and ha verne twith unpar : alleied 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 depending upon a watery condition of the blood or shattered nerves. Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills are also a specific for troubles 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 ex — cesses of whatever nature. On further inquiry the writer found that these pills are manufactured by the Dr. Williams Medicine Company, Brockville, Ont., and Morristown. N. Y., and are soldf in boxes (never in bulk by the hundred) at 50 cents a box, or six boxes for $3 50, and may be had of all druggists or direct by mail from Dr. Williams’ Medicine Company, from either address. The price at which these pills are sold makes a course of treatment comparatively inexpensive as compared with other remedies or medical treatment.