The Leavenworth weekly times., 1875-03-04
A $500 Book for Sl.5O.

The Peoples Common Sense Medical Ad-
wiser, in plain English, or Medicine Sim
plihed: Br X. V. Pierce, NJ. d., Commits
sioner-in-chief OF the Board of Physicians
and Surgeons at the Worlds Dispensary.
Buffalo, n Y. The above work, book Of
about nine hundred pages, profusely illus
trated with wood engravings and colored
plates, and well and strongly bound-will
be sent postpaid to any address for One
Dollar and Fifty Cents-making it the
cheapest book ever offered to the American
people. Other books, treating of domestic
medicine, of like size and style of binding
and not nearly al we'll illustrated, with no
colored plates, and some of them contain
ing no prescriptions, and making known no
means Of self-cure for the diseases which
they discuss, sell for from three dollars and
half to five dollars. Were DIR. Pierce's
work not published by the author, printed
and bound by his own machinery, and
were it sould through agents, as other like
works are, the price of it would have to be
not less than four dollaIs. For when
the publisher pays the author a fair
price of this production, then adds profit
TO his investment large enough to satisfy
himself and compensate him, not only for
hAs Aoook, ous ioA thC Tish vi lSCuuIdIN lOsS
which he assumes in taking the chances of
the enterprise proving success, and when
the State, County and canvassing agent has
each received his profit, they have added to
the expense Of q book, that originally cost
about $l.s5, 30 much that the people have
to pay not less that S400 for it. The Peo-
pies Medical Advisor, on the contrary, is
placed within the pecuniary reach of all
classes by the author, who adopts the plan
OF the Changers, dispinsing with middle
men and giving the benefit Of their profits
to the people, offering his book at q price
little above actual cost of publication. That
those who desire the book NAV run no risk
of loosing their money in sending it through
the mails, the author advertises that money
addressed to him At Buffalo, n. Y, and in
closed in registered letters, may be at his
risk of loss. The authors large correspon-
denee with the people upon medical mat
ters, which we are credibly informed, fire.
quently exceeds three hundeed letters day
and requires several trained and skillful
medical assistants and shorthand re-
porters to enable him to entertain
and answer them, as veil as his large daily
dealings with disease at the Worlds Dis
pensary, appear TO have peculiarly fitted
him for writing the work, BY rendering him
very familiar with the everyday medical
needs of the people. He endeavors in this
work to answer all the numerous questions
relating to health and disease that have
been addresed to him by the people from
all parts Of the land, and hence it contains
important information for young and old,
male and female, single and married, no.
where else to be found. All the most pre-
valent diseases Of both sexes are also plain
-ly and fully considered, and means Of self
cure made known. Unlike other works on
Domestic Medicine, it includes the subjects
of Biology, Cerebral, Physiology, Hygiene,
Temperaments, Marriage, Reproduction,
etc, all Of which are treated in an original
and interesting manner. 1t is q compen-
dium Of anatomical, Physiological and
medical science, and embodies the late.t
Discoveries n saeA dspaEtnnk a. :