The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1875-04-09
4 $500 BOOK IOR 81 50.

The Peoples Common Senss Medical
Adviser. in plain English, or Medicine
S.Wpiiiiet BY r. V. Pierce, II. D.,
Cl-':.ss!or iu-Chief of the Board of
piiyaicians and Surgeons, at the Worlds
DispenSary, Buffalo, n. Y. The above
work-a book of about nine hundred
large pages, profusely illustrated with
wood engravings and colored plates, and
well and strongly bound-will be sent.
postpaid, to any address, fer One Dollar
and Fifty Cents-making it the cheapest
book eCeT offered to the american People.
Other books treating of domestic medi-
cine, of like size and style of binding,
and not nearly as well illustrated, with
no cOlored plates, and some of them
containing nc prescriptions and making
known no means of self-cdre 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 with
his own machinery, and We're it sold
through agents, as other like works are,
the price of it would have to be not less
than four dollars For when the pub
Usher pays the author q fair price for his
production, then adds profit to his in
vestment large enough to satisfy him
self and compensate him, not only for
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MARY loss which he assumes in taking
the chances Of the enterprise proving a
success, and when the State, County and
canvassing agent has each received his
profit, they have added TO the expense
of book, that originally cost about
S1.2J, so much that the people have to
pay not less than $500 for it. The
Peoples Medical Adviser, on the con-
trary, is placed within the pecuniary
reach of all classes by the author, who
adopts the plan of the Changers, dis
pensing with middle men and giving the
benefit of their profits to the people, of
fering his book at n price little above ac-
tuaI est of publication. That those
desiring the book may ruD no risk of
losing their money in sending it through
the mails, the author advertises that
money addressed to him az Buffalo, n.
Y, and inclosed in registered letters,
may b. ut his risk of loss. The authors
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 skillfuI medical as
sistants and shorthand reporters to ena-
BILE him TO entertain and answer them,
as well as his large daily dealings with
disease at the Worlds Dispensary, ap-
pear to have peculiarly fitted him for
writing the work, by rendering him very
familiar with the every day medical
needs of the people. lie endeavors in
this work to answer all the numerous
questions relating to health and disease
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 be
found All the most prevalent diseases
of both sexes are also plainly and fully
considered. and means of selfeure made
known. Unlike other works on Do
mestic Medicine, it includes the subjects
of Biology, Cerebral Physiology. Hy-
giene, Tempartnents, Marriage, Repro
ductiOn, etc. all of which are treated
iii an original and Interesting manner
1t is a compendium of Anatomical,
Physiological and Medical Science, and
embodles the latest discoveries in each
dpDartment