Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1875-03-26
4 $500 Book for SI.SO.

The Peoples Common Sense Medical Adj
wiser, in plain English, or Medicine Sim
pltied by r, V. PIERCE, NJ D., Counselor
in-Chief of the Board Of Physicians and
surgeons, at the Worlds DisPensary, Buff
falo, y. y. The above Work-a book OF
about nine hundred large pages, profusely
illustrated with wood engravings and col
ored plates, aud well and strongly bound
will be sent, post paid, to any address,
for one Dollar and Fifty Concentrating ii
the cheapest book ever offered 20 the
American people.
Other books treating of domestic medi-
cine, OF like size and style of binding, and
not nearly AS well illustrated, with no col.
Ored plates, and some OF them cOntsinin
no prescriptions and making known no
means of sell-cure for the diseases which
they discuss, sell for from three dollars and
a halt 10 five dollars. Were DR.. Pierce'S
work not Published by the author, printed
and bound with his own machinery, and
were it sold through agents, as other like
works are, the price of il would have been
not less than four dollars. For when the
publisher pays the author a iair price for
his production, then adds profit to his
investment large enough to satisfy himself
and compensate him. not only for his la
Dor, but also for the risk Of pecuniary loss
which he assumes in taking the chances OF
the enterprise proving success and W hen
the state, county and canvassing agent has
each received his profit, they have added
to the expense OF book that originally
cost about SIZE, so much that the people
have to pay not less than $500 for II. 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 Changers, dispensing with middle
men and giving the benefit OF their profits
10 the people, Offering his book AT price
little above actual cost OF utilization. That
those desiring the book may run no risk
of losin" their money in sending II through
the mails, the anthOr advertises that money
sent TO him al Buffalo, y, Y, and iuclosed
in REGIsTERED letters, may he at his risk
Of loSH. The authors large correspondence
with the people upon medical matters,
which, We are credlOly informed, frequent
~ exceeds three hundred letters day, and
requires several trained and skiIlful medi-
cal assistants and shorthand reporters 10
enable him 10 entertain and answer them,
as well as his large daily dealings with dis
ease al The Worlds Disnensary, appear TO
have peculiarly fitted him for writing the
work, by rendering him very familiar
with the every day medical needs of the
people. lie endeavors in this work TO an
swer all The numerous questions relating
TO health and disease That have been adj
dressed TO him by the people from all par Is
OF the land, and hence II contains import
ant information for the young and old,
male and female, single and married, no.
where else to be found. All the most
prevalent diseases OF both sexes are also
plainly and fully considered and means Of
self-cure made known. Unlike other
works on Domestic Medicine, IT includes
the subjects Of Biology, Cerebral Physiol-
ogy, Hygiene, Temperaments, Marriage,
Reproduction, etc., all of which are treated
in an original aud interesting manner. 1t
is a compendium of Anatomical, Physlo-
logical and Medical Science, and EN- bodies
the latest discoveries in each department.