The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1875-03-29
A 800 Book for SI.5O.

The Peoples Common Sense Medical
Adviser, in plain English, or Medicine
Simphled By K. V. Pierce, VI. d.,
Counselor-in- Chief of the Board of Ply
sieians and Surgeons, at the Worlds Dis
pensary, Buffalo, n. Y. The above Work
II 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, Tor One Dollar and
Fifty Gents -msking it the cheapest book
ever offered t6 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 and some of them containing
no prescriptions and making known no
means of sclr-curc for the diseases which
they ditcuss sell for from three dollars
and half to five dollars Were DR..
Pierce's Wcrk not published by the author,
printed and bound with his own machin-
cry, and were it sold through agents, a.
other like works are, the price Of It would
have to be not less than four dollars. For
when the publisher pays the author II
fair price for his production, then adds Il
profit to his Investment large enough TO
satisfy him and compensate him, not
only for his labor, but also for the risk of
p0cuniary loss which be assumes in taking
the chance Of the enterprise proving 4
success. and when the State County and
canvaSslng agent has each received hi,
profit, they have added to the expense of
book, that originally cost about 81 %, 50
much that the people have to pay not
les, than 400 for il. The Peoples Medi-
cal Adviser, on the contrary,is placed with
in the p"cuniary reach of all GLASSES by
the author, who adopts the plan of the
Grangcrs dispensing with middle men
aud giving the benefit of their profits Ia
the people, offering his book at Il price
little above actual COS. of publication.
That those desiring the book may run no
risk Of losing their money in sending il
through the mails, the author advcrtisrs
that money addressed to him at Buffalo,
y. Y, and incloscd in registered letters,
may be- at his risk of loss. The authors
large correspondence with the people
upon medical matters, which We ur"
crcdibly informed, frequently exceeds
three hundred letters day, and require,
several trained and skillful medical AS
-istaut- and shorthand reporters 10 en-
able him To- entertain and answer them, a
well his large daily dealings with disease
ut the World Di>pen,ary, appears to
hav" 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 rclat.
my to health and disease that have been
addressed to HIM by the people from all
pnrt, of the land, and hence it 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 considered and
means of Nclf-cure made known. Unlike
other works on Domestic Medicine it in
cIudcs the subjects Of Biology, Cerebral
Physiology, Hygiene, Tcmperamcnts,
Marriage, Reproduction, ETC. all of which
are treated in an original and interesting
manner. 1t is II compendium Of Ana
tomical, Physiological and Medical
Science and cmbodics the latest diScoy-
cries in each department.