Wilmington daily commercial. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1866-1877, 1875-03-22

A 400 Book for 81 so

The Peoples Common Sense Medical Adviser in
plain English, or Medicine simplined By r. V.
PIER X NJ. d. C'unseor-in- Chief of the Board of
Physicians and Surgeons at the Worlds Dispensary
Buffalo, n. \. The above Work-a book of about nine
hundred large pages, prOfusely illustrated with
Wood EDgTavings and ColoTe plates. and well and
strongly bOund-wll be sent, post aid, to any adj
dress, for ,ne Dollar and Fifts Cents it the
cheap st book ev n offered to the American People
Other books IT atlng OF domestic medicine, of ike
SIZE and style of binding, and not nearly well IL
Illustrated, with no coored plates, and some OF them
containing no prescriptions and making known no
means OF selfcure for the diseases which they dis
cuss. sell for from three dollars and half TO five
dollars Were DIR Perce's Work not published by
the author. printed and bound with his own machn-
cry, and were 1t sold through agents. as other like
works are the price of 1t would have TO be not less
than four do'lsrs For when the publ sher pays the
author fair price for his production, then adds
profit TO his investment large enough to satisfy him
self and compensate MIN, not only for his labor, bu'
also for the risk of pecunarf loss which he assumes
IN taking the chances of the enterprise proving a
success, and when the State, County and canvass
ing agent has each received his profit, they have
added TO the expe OF book, that originally cost
about sl.q5 so much that the people have to pay
less than si.cO FORT. The Peoples Medical dviser.
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 b'ok at price little above actual cost
Of publication, That tn Sc desiring the BOOK may
run no risk of loosing their money in sending il
through the mails the author advertses that money
addresse TO him at Buffalo, n. Y, and incosed in
regi>tere letters, may be at his risk OF loss. The
authors large correspondence with the people upon
medical matters, which we are crediby in 'ormed,
frequently exceeds three hundred letters day and
requires several trained and skillful medical asss-
tants and shor-hani reporters 10 enable him to en-
teri ain and answer them, as well as his large daily
dealings with disease at the Worlds Dspcnsary,
appear to have peculiarly fitted him for writing The
Work. by rendering lin very familiar with the
every day medical needs of the people. He endea-
vors in this work TO answer a the numerous ques-
| 0ns relating to health and disease that have been
ad ressed to him by the people from all parts OF the
land. and hence It con anes important Information
uT1 oil cir ffIA a
| married, nowhere else to be found. All the most
| prevalent diseases OF both sexes are also plainly
| AMI fully considered and means of self-cure made
| known. Unlike other works on Bones ic Medicine,
I includes the subjects of Biology, Cerebral Physo-
ioGy Hygiene, Tenperanents. Marriage, Reproduc-
ton, etc all OF which are treated in an orig nal and
| interesting manner. IL is compendium of Ana
omical. Physiological ana Medical science and en-
| bodies the Ia est ii coveries in ca n department