The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1875-03-31
A $500 Book for sI.5O.

The Peoples Common Sense Medical
Adviser, in plain English. or Medicine
Simphfed: By r. V. Pierce, VI. d.,
COunselor-in Chief of the Board Of Ply
Sicians and Surgeons, at the Worlds Dis
pensary, Buffalo n. r. The above Work
IA book Of about nine hundred large
pages, profusely illustrated with Wood
Engravings and Colored plates, and well
and strongly bound-will be sent, post
paid, TO any address, for one Dollar and
Fifty Cents-mSking it the cheapest book
ever offered to the American People.
Othe, books treating of domestic medicine
of like size and style of binding, and not
nearly as well illustrated, with no color
ed plates, aud some of them containing
no prescriptions and making known no
means of self-curc for the diseases which
they ditcuss. sell for from three dollars
and a half to five dollars Were DIR.
Pierccs Work not published by the author,
printed and bound with his own machln-
cry, and were it sold through agents as
other like works are, the price of 1t would
nave to be not less than four dollars. For
when the publisher pays the author II
fair price for his production, then adds "A
profit to his investment large enough to
satisfy him and compensate him, not
only for his labor, but also for the risk Of
pecuniary loss which be assumes in taking
the chance of the enterprise proving =
success, and when the State, County and
canvassIng agent has each received hl'
profit, they have added to the expense OF
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much that the people have to pay not
less than $4,0O forit. The Peoples Medi-
cal Adviser, on the contrary,iS placed with
in 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 COS: of publication
That those desiring the book may run no
risk OF losing their money in sending II
through the mails, the author adycrtises
that money addressed TO him ut Buffalo,
y. Y, and incloscd in registered letters,
may be at his risk of loss. The author,
large correSp SpOndence with the people
upon medical matters, which we are
credibly informed, frequently exceed,
three hundred letters day, and requires
several trained and skillful medical as-
,istants and shorthand reporters To cn
able him to entertain and answer them, a.
well his large daily dealings with disease
at the Worlds Dispensary, appears to
have peculiarly fitted him for writing the
Work, by rendering him very familiar
with the every day medical needs of the
| people. He cndcavors in this Work to
answer all the numerous questions rc!at-
ing To health and disease that have been
addressed to him by the people from all
parts Of the land, and hence it contains
important information for the young
and old, male ard female, single and
married, nowhere else to be- found. All
the most prevalent Diseases Of both sexes
are also plainly and fully considered and
means of ,elf.cure made known. Unlike
other works on Domestic Medicine it in
cludrs the subjects Of Biology, Cerebral
Physiology, Hygiene, Tcmpcramcnts
Marriage, Reproduction, etc, all (which
are treated in an original and interesting
manner. 1t is compendium OF Ana.
tomical, Physiological and Medical
Science, and embodies the latest discov-
cries in each department