The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1875-05-13
A 500 Book for 01.5O.

The Peoples Common Sense Medical Ad-
wiser, in Plain English, or Medicine Simpli-
fed: By R. v. PIERCE, NJ. D., Counselor.
in-Chief of the Board of Physicians and
falo, N. Y. The above works 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, 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 as
well illustrated, with no colored plates, and
some of them containing 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 with his own ma
chinery, and were it sold through agents, as
other like works are, the price of it would
have to be not less than four dollars; for
price for his production, then adds profit
to his investment large enough to satisfy
himself and compensate him, not only for
his labor, but also for the risk of pecuniary
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
a
cost about 81. 25 so much that the people have
to pay not less than $500 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
grangers, dispensing with middle men, and
giving the benefit Of their profits to the peo-
pie, offering his book at price little above
the actual cost of publication. That those
desiring the book may run no risk of losing
/ their mon ev in aeudinU IL throu oh the mails
the author advertises that money addressed
to him at Buffalo, N. Y, and inclosed in reg
istered letters, may be sent at 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 skillful medical assistants and
tain and answer them, as well as 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 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 im-
portant information for the young and old,
male and female, single and married, no.
where else to be found. All the most prev
alent diseases of both sexes are also plainly
and fully considered, and means of self-cure
made known. Unlike other works on do
nestle medicine, it includes the subjects of
Biology, Cerebral Physiology, Hygiene, TEN.
peraments, Marriage, Reproduction, etc., all
| of which are treated in an original and in
teresting manner. 1t is a compendium of
anatomical, physiological and medical sci.
ence, and embodies the latest discoveries in
| each department..