Testimony of Healing May 18, 1899 Issue

Another Case of Locomotor Ataxia Healed

R. W. K.

In September, 1894, my ailment was pronounced locomotor ataxia (erroneously called creeping paralysis), by my family physician.

He advised me to consult a specialist on nervous diseases, who likewise diagnosed my case as locomotor ataxia, and put me under a thorough course of treatment. I tried static electricity every day; I was hung by the neck for two minutes (to stretch the spinal cord) every day; I took an injection of gold in the back, close to the spine, every day, and syrup of hypophosphate with strychnine internally three times a day. This course of treatment was faithfully followed for six months, and at the end of that time I was hardly able to walk; my speech was gone, and I was unable longer to conduct my business. The pain in my limbs was insufferable; I was helpless, despondent, and willing to die.

I then went to Europe and consulted the best authorities on nervous diseases in Vienna and Germany. Here my disease was also called locomotor ataxia, and the German professor advised a thorough course of massage and baths at a celebrated resort, Bad Nauheim (Bad means Both), near Frankfort. I took this course, remaining there eight weeks, and was helped considerably. I returned home, and for eighteen months tried Faradic electricity (as instructed by the German professor,—static electricity being pronounced of no value) with cold baths every day and a tonic of iron to make blood, as I was anæmic. At the end of that time I broke down again and returned to Germany, taking the same course under the same professor's instructions, and came home feeling very much encouraged, looking forward to a complete recovery.

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