Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1875-04-03
A $500 BOOK FOR $3.50.

The peoples Common Sense Medical Advi-
ser, n plain English, or Medicine Simptied;
by r. V PIERCE, NJ. D., Counselor-in-Chiel OF
the Board of Physicians and Surgeons, at the
World Dspensary, Buffalo, N y. Theabove
Work-a book of about nine hundred large
pages, profusey illustrated with Wood En-
cravings aud Colored plates. and well aud
strongly bound-wll be sent, post paid, to
any address, for One Dollar and Fifty Cents
making it the cheapest book ever offered to the
American People. Other books treating of do
nestle medicine, of like size, style Of binding,
Tot nearly as well illustrated, with no colorcd
mates. and some of them containing no pre-
scriptions and making known no means Of
self-cure for the diseases which they discuss,
sell for from three dollars and a half to live
dollars. Were Dr. Perce's Work not pub
lisbed by the author, printed and bound with
his own machinery, and were il sold through
agents, as other like works are, the price Of 1t
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 himself
and compensate him, not only Tor his labor,
but also for the risk Of pecuniary loss which
he assumes in taking the chances of the enter
prise proving o success, and when the State,
County and canvaSSing agent has each received
his profit, they have added to the expense OF a
book. that originally cost about Sl.25 so much
that the people have to pay not less than 81 90
for it. 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 to
the people, Offering his book at price little
above actual cost of publication. That those
desiring the book may run no risk OF losing
their money In sending it through the mails,
the author adyertises that money addressed to
him at Buffalo, \. Y, and inclosed in register
ed letters, may be at bis risk Of loss. The au-
thor's large correspondence with the people
upon medical matters, which we are credibly
informed, frequently exceeds three hundred
letters a day, and requires several trained and
skillful medical assistants aud shorthand re-
porters 10 enable him to entertain and answer
them. as well rs his large daily dealings with
disease at the Worlds Dispensary, 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 endeayors in this Work to answer all the
numerous questions relating TO health and di-
sease that have been addressed to him by the
people from all parts of the land, and hence it
contains important information for the young
and old, male and female, single and married,
nowhere else to he found. All the most pre-
valent diseases of both sexes are also plainly
and fully considered and means Of sel(-cure
4.
nestle Medicine, it includes the subjects Of
Biology, Cerebral Physiology, Hygiene, Tenn
peraments, Marriage, Reproduction, etc, all of
which arc treated in an original and interesting
manner. It compendium Of Anatomical,
Physiological and Medical Science, and en-
bodies the latest discoveries in each department.