Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1848-10-17

THE BOOK FOR THE PEOPLE!
DREPARED expressly fnr the use and benefit Of Fa-
L miles. and ofpain, common sense indiyiduas.-
The collected and condensed experience and observa.
ton of ages. The and scientific work OF
any of the kind in existence.
You cannot he ignorant of the teachings OF this
trry and inesmabe book, and yet live as you ought,
or live out your full time earth. The people viii
take the mere assertion of any clergyman in the
land TO trust their souls upon they mus, have The Iea
sons, the why and wherefore. They will not buy pro-
perty without knowing what II is, and what Is the
price, even to yard Of tape; but they will put their
lives, the lives of their families and friends, into the
hands of Doctor of whose qualifications, knowledge,
skill or fitness they are totally incapable, from their
gross ignorance Of forming any Judgment wtaieser.-
They swallow the Doctors poisonous drug without in
curing what Is, what disease il is for what .ec
il is designed to produce. Oh, We fools. When will
ye be wise? How long will you be the slaves and
dupes Of your desootic family phy,ician' Why pin,
your faith merely but your very lives, upon ano
Their mans sleeves! Why not know for yourselves III
matters appertaining to your life and health in this
state Of existence, as in the next? Why out of the
world with your blood on your own heads, on Tho
head of some other person? and all this because You
will remain MISINFoRMED on Subject which is Of
the highest earthly interest yourselves and those who
are dependent upon you for protection.
How is 1t that we can all find our way TO God, and
eternal fe-to the cure Of our moral diseases with on
ly common sized volume in our hands, tTHE b.
BLE) and with only learning enough be able 10 read
it, and yet bodies of such INFINITELY
GREATER CONSEQUENCE tina, We cannot know
how 70 avoid or 10 cure s maadies without liberal
education, whole library Of books, whole troop of
Doctors al our heels? Oh, ye creduiOus dupes, who
strain at gnat and swallow n camel-who will hggle
in bargain for the fstieth part Of cent and at the
time yonr whole selves, wives and children
bodily into the hands of men whose action, whether
for life death, you utterly incapable of aesnG,
by any known laws ru'es, whether human or d.
vine. Wonder you not all dead-especaiIy those
who swallow whole all that their family Doctors tell
them in health, and give them in disease.
Now, for on in your lives, do wise and rational
buy DR. BEACH'S AMERICAN PRACTICE OF ME-
DICINE AND FAMILY PHYSICIAN, and IL will
teach you more In ONE HOUR than all the Family
Physicians have nught the families in which they have
practised in years. II is the object of Dr. BEAcHs
FANNY PHrscIAs 10 enable you 10 understand your
diseases, their e1Ises symptoms and cure; and TO
qualify you to rely on your own resources
Go we, fellow citizens-ye men of thought, OF free
dom, of independence-ye parents, who value your
ehildrons health and livesye mothers, who wish TO
knop fer yourselves how live, TO ereid dsease-how
yourselves, your friends and children when Ill
men and women who wish to understand your own
constitutions, tho nature Of all physical masdies, the
true and efficient treatment, proved TO be such by
THIRTY YEARS PRACTICE IN TENS OF THOU
SANDS OF CASES-go we TO the Bookstores, and buy
TICE OF MEDICINE AND FAMILY PHYSICIAN,
and you cannot but he happier, wiser, healthier per-
sons and thus you. time money and lives TO be
used for some better purpose than 10 enrich Doctors,
Apothecaries Quacks, PiIl-Pedars, Nostrum
Undertakers and sections
MEDICINES, are for sale by the following Agents:
J. w. RANDOLPH CO.: Booksellers and Binders,
l2l Main street, Richmond, Va.
GAINES. RICHES 4 CO., do, Petersburg, Va.
E. WATTS, do, Charlottesville, Va.
A. P. BIGELOW, do, Farmve, Va.
E. MCDOWELL, do. Fredericksburg, Va.
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