The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1875-03-18

The Peoples Common Sense Medical Adviser,
in plain English, or Medicine simpliied: BY X:
v. PIERCE, Nj. d., ,Couuselor-in- Chief OF the Board
of Physicians and Surgeons, at the Worlds DIS
penssry, Buffalo, N Y. The above Work.
book Of about nine hundnesl large pages, pro,
fns-iy Illustrated with Wood Engravings anu
Coiored plates, and well and strongly bouna-
VIII he sent, post paid, to any address, ior oho
Dollar ana fiffy Cents-msking II THE ChnAr CI
EST BOOK EVER OFFERED TO THE AMERICAN fEo-
PIE. Other hooks treating of domestic medicine,
OF like size and style Of binding, and not nearly
rs well illustrated. with no colored plates, and
some OF them containing no prescriptions
and making known means OF sell cure iof tne
disease which they discnSs, sell for frum three
dollars and half to five dollars. We're Dr.
Pieree's Work not published By the author, print
ed and bound with his own machinery, and were
it sold through agents. as other like works are,
the price uf 10 would havt to be not less than
FOUR DOLLARS. For NheY the publisher pays
the author a fair price for ks production, then
adds profit to his investmSht large enough to
satisfy himself and compensate him, not only for
his labor but also tor the risk of pecuniary loss
which he assumes in taking the chances of the
enterprise proving a success and when the State,
County and eanvassing agest has each received
his profit, they have addsl to the expense Of a
book, that originally cost about 81 .25, so much
that the people have to psynot less than 400 for
it. The Peoples Medical Adviser, on the contrary,
is placed within the pecunisry reach of all classes
Ivy the author, who adopts fir pian oi Tue uF.h-
gers dispensing with middle men and giving
the benefit of the profits the people, offering
his book at price little abeve actual cnst oil po-
lieation. That those desiring the book may run
no risk of losing their money in sending 1t through
the mails, the author advenises that money ad-
dressed to him at Bufialo,N y, and inel"sed III
REGISTERED letters, may be at his risk of ioss'
The authors large correspondence with the peo'
pie on medical matters, which we are ere'iibly
informed, frequently excsrls three hundrrd let
ters day, and requires several trained aud skill
full medical assistants and shorthand reporters
to enable him to entertain and answer them, as
we'll as his large daily dealings with disease at
the Worlds DisPensary, appear to have pacnliar
IL fitted him for writing the Work, by rendering
him very familiar with the every day nce,ls Of
the people. He endeayors in this Work to an
swrr all the numerous questions relating Il
health and disease that have been addressed td
him by the people from all parts Of the land, and
hence it contains important information for the
young and old, male and fcnale, single ard mar
ried, nowhere else to he found. All the mos
prevalent diseases of both sexes are also plainl!
ami fully considered and means of selfoure mad,
| known. Unlike other wnrks on Domestic Meei
cine, il ircudes til. subj cts nf Biology, Cerebral
Physiology, Hygiene. Trmperaments, Marriage
Reproduction, etc., all of which treated in an
original and interesting manner. 1t is a com
pendulum of Anatomical, Physiological, and Medi
cal Science, and enibodies the latest discoveries
in each department.