Connecticut western news., 1875-05-14
A &4.OO Book for &1. .60.

The Peoples Common Sense Medical Ad- wiser, in plain English, or Medicine Smplifed By k. V. Pierce, M. D., counselor-in-chief of the board of physicians and surgeons, at the worlds dispensary, Buffalo, N. Y. The above work-a book of about nine hundred large pages, profusely illustrated with wood engrav- lngs and colored plates, and we'll and strongly bound-wlll be sent postpaid, to any address, for one dollar and fifty cents-making it the cheapest book ever offered to the American people. Other books treating of domestic medicine, of like size and style of binding and not nearly well illustrated, with no colored plates, and some of them containing no pre- scrlptlons and making known no means of self cure for the diseases which they discuss, sell for from three dollars and half to five dollars. Were Dr. Pierces work not published by the author, printed and bound with his own ma- chinery. and were it sold through agents, as other like works are, the price of it would have to be not less than four dollars. For when the publisher pays the author a fair price for hls production, then adds & profit to his invest ment large enough to satisfy himself and com pensate him, not only for his labor, but also for the risk of pecuniary loss which he assumes in taking the chances of the enterprise proving a success, and when the State, county and can wasting agent has each received his profit, they have added to the expense of book, that originally costs about $1.25, 50 much that the people have to pay not less than $4. .00 for it. The Peoples Medical Adviser, on the contrary, is placed within the pecuniary reach of all classes by the author, who adopts the plan of the grangers, dispensing with middle men and giving the benefit of their profits to the people, offering his book at price little above actual cost of publication. That those desiring the book may run no risk of losing their money in sending it through the mails the author advertises that money addressed to him at Buffalo, N. r., and inclosed in registered letters may be at his risk of loss. The authors large correspondence with the people upon medical matters, which we are credibly informed, frequently exceeds three hundred letters day, and requires several trained and skillful medical assistants and shorthand re- porters to enable him to entertain and answer them, as well as his large daily dealings with disease at the worlds dispensarv, appear to have peculiarly fitted him for writing the work, by rendering him very familiar with the every day medical needs of the people. He endeavors ill this work to answer all the numerous ques- tions relating to health and disease that have been addressed to him by the people from all parts of the land and hence it contains impor- tant information for the young and old, male and female, single and married, nowhere else to be found. All the most prevalent diseases of both sexes are also plainly and fully con- sidered and means of self-cure made known
 Unlike other works on domestic medicine it includes the subjects of biology, cerebral phy- siology, hygiene, temperanlents, marriage, re- production, etc all of which are treated in an original and interesting manner. It it a com- pendium of anatomical, physiological and medi- cal science, and embodies the latest discoveries in each department.-Con .#.H