Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1875-05-22
A ~ Book for S1,5O.

The Peoples Common Sense Medical Adj
wiser, in plain English, or Medicine Simpli-
chief of the Board of Physicians and Sur
geOns at the Worlds DispeDsary, Buffalo, n.
Y. The above work-a 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-making ii the cheapest BOOK ecer
offered 10 the american people. Other books
treating of domestic medicine, of like size
and style of binding, and not nearly as well
illustrated, with no colored plates, and some
OF them containing no prescriptions aud
making known no means of selfcure for the
diseases which they discuss, sell for from
three dollars and a half TO five dollars Were
Or. Pierce's Work not published by the au-
thor, printed and bound with his own ma
chinery, and were il sold through agents, as
other like works are, the price of il would
have to be not less than four dollars. For
when the publisher pays the author fair
price for his production, then adds profit to
his investment large enough to satisfy him
self and compensate 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 canvassing agent has
each received his profit, they have added to
the expense of book, that originally cost
SIPS, so much that the people have to pay
not less than 81 for it, The Peoples Medical
Adviser, on the contrary, is placed within
the pecuniary reach of all classes by the au-
thor, who adopts the plan of the Changers,
dispensing with middle men and giving the
benefit of their profits to the people, Offering
his book al price little above actual cost of
publication. That those desiring the book
may run 30 risk Of losing their money in
sending il through the mails. the author adj
yertises that money addressed to him at
Buffalo, N. Y, and inclOsed in registered let
tiers. may be at his risk of loss. rhe authors
large correspondence with the people upon
medical matters. which we are Credibly in
formed, frequently exceeds three hundred
letters day, and requires several trained
and Skillful medical assistants and short
and answer them, as well as his large daily
dealings with disease at the Worlds DiSpen-
sary, 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 in this work TO
answer all the numerous questions relating
to health and disease that have been adj
dressed TO him by the people from all parts
OF the land, and hence ii contains important
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 conSid-
cred and means of selfcure made known.
unlike other works on Domestic Medicine,
II includes the subjects of Biology, Cerebral
Physiology, Hygiene. Tcmperaments, Mar
riage, Reproduction, etc, all of which are
treated in an original and interesting man
ner. IL is compendium of Anatomical,
Physiological and Medical Science. and en-
bodies the latest discoveries in each depart
ment. eOSk
For Moth Patches, Freckies and Tan. ask
your druggist for Perry's Moth and Freckle
race, Black-H Heads or Flesh Worms, use
Pe7y's ImpT0Ced COpnelo,,e and Pinlple Rem
eGy. the Great Skin Medicine, or consult Dr.
&. C. Perry, 40 Bond street, New York. 5,5,1
THE SINGER SEWING MACHINE sales OF
1872 were S2l9,e60. 4.12-s,wt