The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1875-04-15
A S1.OO ROOk for aJS O-

The Peoples Common Sense Medical Ad-
wiser, IN plain English, or Medicine Simpli-
ned; by X V. PIERCE, NJ. D., Counselor.in-
Chief of the Board of Physicians and Sur
geons at the Worlds Dispensary, Buffalo, n.
I. The above Work-a book of about nine
hundred large pages, profusely illustrated
with Wood Engrayings and COlored plates
anr well and strongly bound-wilI 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 medicines
of like size and style of binding, and not
nearly as well Illustrated, with DO colored
plates, and some OF them containing no pre-
scrlptlons and making known no means of
self-cure for the diseases which they discuss.
sell for from three dollars and half to five
dollars. We're DIR. Pierce's Work not pub
nsncd by The author, printed and bound with
MS own machinery, and were it sold through
agents, as other like works are, the price of If
would have to be not less than -FOUR DOLLARS
or when the publisher pays the author a
ialr price for his production, then adds a
proht 10 ms investment large enough to sat
isly nlhseH ana compensate him, not only
Tor his labor, but also for the risk of pecuniary
loss when he assumes in taking the chances
OF the enterprise proving success, and v hen
the State, county and canvassing agent has
each received his profit, they have added to
the expense of a book that originally cost
ABOUT - 20 so much that the people have TO
pay not less than s4.O0for it. The Peoples Med
zeal Adviser, on the contrary, is placed within
the pecuniary reach Of all classes by the author,
VINO adopts the plan of the Changers, dispens-
ing with middle-men and giving the benefit
OF thelr 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 1t through the mails, the author ad
vertlses that money addressed to him at Ruff
iaio, n. y, and inclosed in REGISTERED let
ters, may be at his risk OF loss The authors
large correspondence with the people upon
medical matters (Which, We are credibly in
formed, frequently exceeds 800 letters a day
and requires several trained and skillful med
zeal assistants and shorthand reporters to en-
able him to entertain and answer them, sc
well as his large daily dealings with disease
at the Worlds Dispensary, appear to have pc
cullarly htted him for writing the Work, by
rendering him very familiar with the every
day medical needs of the people. He en-
deavors, IN this work, 10 answer all the pu
merous questions relating to health and dis
ease that have been addressed to him INV the
people from all parts of the land, and hence
III 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
self-cure made known. Unlike other works
on Domestic Medicine, it includes the sinh
Jects of Biology, Cerebral Physiology, Hy-
giene, Temperamcnts, Marriage, Reproduc-
ton, etc, all of which are treated in an origi
nal ana interesting manner 1t is a com
pendlum OF Anatomical, Physiological and
Medical Science, and embodies the latest dis
coyeries in each department.