Dr. Quimby's Work

Hundred's of newspaper articles and letters praised Dr. Quimby's method of treatment. Copies of these articles were donated to The Library of Congress as having historical value.

Bangor Jeffersonian Times - February 1858

Mrs. Hodson of Kenduskeag, who had been sick with a complication of dyspepsia [disturbed digestion] in its worst form, and a difficulty about the head, which had her utterly prostrated for two years, had been unable to walk a step or to be moved in an upright position without fainting.

Dr. Quimby sat with the sufferer. In two hours the she rose from her bed without assistance, seated herself in a chair, then sat up an additional two hours. She has steadily improved and in time gained twenty pounds of flesh. All this came as the result of a single visit.

We have heard of other cases of remarkable relief. It is too late an hour for the cry of humbug, in Mr. Quimby's treatment of disease.... People are beginning to inquire, Who and what is Dr. Quimby? By what strange agency does he cure disease which for years has baffled the skill of our most eminent physicians?

Evening Courier - September 1860

We have been told that the "age of miracles is passed, but we have recently heard of several astonishing cures preformed by a Dr. P. P. Quimby, which seem to border on the miraculous. How these cures are effected, it is impossible to say, as no visible means are employed. The most obstinate cases of disease have been made to disappear at the mere will, it would seem, of the Doctor.

Having heard of a remarkable recovery, we called on the patient, an intelligent young lady, who stated to us her case, and the manner of her cure, the facts of which seem embodied, at our request, in the following letter." Regarding Dr. Quimby

Dear Sirs:

I have been sick since five years ago last July, having a great deal of pain in my back and limbs, caused by blue pills taken two years before, physicians said, giving me spinal disease. Very soon I was unable to walk, or even stand, and for months I was prostrate upon my bed and confined to a dark room, having neuralgia in the optic nerve, and painful dyspepsia, making me a great sufferer.

After being for two years in the care of my uncle and brother, both doctors, they decided medicine would not cure me, and took me to a Water Cure, at Hill, New Hampshire. The Water Cure physician decided there was no help for me there, concluding the spinal marrow was diseased.

Hearing of Dr. Quimby, I set out at once to see him. Arriving at the United States Hotel in Portland, on the morning of August 15th, I was carried up stairs in my wheel chair to my room.

Fifteen minutes after I saw Dr. Quimby, I was walking. I went downstairs to dinner (without assistance) and back to my room(again without assistance). That evening, I took long walks of about forty steps with assistance, you will not wonder that I was wild with delight. I was like one risen from the dead. The second day I walked on the street sixteen rods. On my sixth day I walked four miles and a half, and in less than two weeks I walked the four mile into Portland from Falmouth and returned.

My disease is entirely gone, my back is perfectly well, and I have no fears of a relapse.

Yours with much esteem,
F. C. B. - Residence, Williamstown, Vermont.

To this testimony we add that of Mr. Julius Dresser, who was restored to health by Dr. Quimby three months before. (Since that time he has devoted himself to conversing with patients on "Dr. Quimby's Truth.") Mr. Dresser saw Miss B. in her invalid condition, then walked and talked with her during some of the trips above mentioned. He learned the facts of her case first hand, and saws that she was perfectly restored to health.

Now, if this were a solitary case we might ascribe the cure to the imagination, as it is well know that imagination has worked wonders in this way. But this is but one of a number of equally remarkable cases which have occurred here in our midst, and witnesses stand ready to bear testimony to the facts.

One lady who had been severely afflicted with rheumatism, and for years was bent nearly double, a perfect cripple, unable to use her hands or feet, was in short time restored to health, and is now living, working evidence of the Doctor's skill.

A gentlemen, a friend of ours, had for years been afflicted with a hip complaint. He had for a long time been confined to his bed, and was brought so low his physicians had given up, with the intimation he could live but a few days. It was purposed to him to call in Dr. Quimby. This the gentleman objected strenuously to, being bitterly opposed to anything like humbuggery, and the doctor he considered "one of the biggest of humbugs. His wife, however, insisted on calling in Dr. Quimby.

Quimby visited him -- and yesterday we met the patient on the street, going home to dinner, looking heartier than we have seen him for a long time. He considers himself entirely cured of the complaint. We told him people considered these cures as humbugs. "So did I, was his reply, "but here I am, and if humbug can work such wonders, glory be to humbug, say I, and so say we!

We might cite a dozen other cases, but we refrain. We have no other motive in mentioning these rare cures than to make our readers acquainted with the remarkable phenomena. We have but a slight acquaintance with Dr. Quimby, and have no interest in publishing his astonishing cures to the world. We have mentioned them as affording matters of curious speculation. We must confess there is something about them more than our philosophy ever dreamed of.

Free Press - Lebanon, New Hampshire 1856

Just at the present time there is a good deal said about Dr. Quimby, of Portland, and it may not be considered amiss to mention the case of a young lady of this town who has been greatly benefited by him. For nearly three years she has been an invalid-- a great part of the time confined to her bed. She never left her room unless carried out by her friends. A few weeks since she heard of Dr. Quimby, and resolved to visit him. She did so, and after remaining under his care four days she returned home free from all pain and disease, and is now rapidly regaining health and strength.

The reputation of Dr. Quimby as a man who cures diseases has extended. The increasing respect and confidence of the public in his success suggests the day of miracles. He effects his cures without the aid of medicine or outward applications, and his practice embraces cases like the above, where all ordinary treatment has failed to relieve.

It is impossible in a brief communication to do anything like justice to Dr. Quimby's Truth. Enough has been said to separate him from quacks and imposters. The case cited above is not a solitary instance of his skill in practicing his science, and his increasing popularity with all classes shows that the confidence of the public is not misplaced.

Having heard that Quimby had restored a woman who had been dumb, an interested reader wrote to the paper the results of an investigation he had been prompted to make concerning this cure. The patient being a daughter of Capt. Blodgett of Brooksville.

She had been suddenly deprived of her speech two years before. No cause was known, and the fact excited a melancholy suprise in herself. She had not been sick, nor had any trouble of mind or body been known to have produced the speechlessness.

One evening her speech was observed to be slightly impaired. She retired as usual, and on waking in the morning she was utterly speechless. From that time she had not uttered an audible word. One physician attributed the cause to a sort of paralysis of the vocal organs. The best medical aid had been sought to no avail.

She is now in full possession of her former powers of speech.

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