Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-04-22
A $500 Book for so.

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 Sur
geons 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 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 no colored
plates, 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 half TO five
dollars. Were DR.. Pierce's Work not pub
lisbed by the author, printed and bound with
his own machinery, and were it 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 a
fair price for his production, then adds
profit to his investment large enough to sat
isfy 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 success, and when
| the State, county ana canVassing agent has
each received his profit, they have added to
| the expense of book that originally cost
about S1.25 so much that the people have to
| pay not less than $500 for it. The Peoples Med
zeal Adviser, on the contrary, is placed within
the pecuniary reach of all classes by the author,
| who adopts the plan of the Changers, dispens-
| ing with middle-men and giving the benefit
of their profits to the people, Offering his
| book at price little above actual cost OF pub
! lication. That those desiring the book may
run no risk of losing their money in sending
! it through the mails, the author ad-
vertises that money addressed to him at Buff
| falo, n. Y, and inclosed in REGISTERED leu
| tiers, 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 500 letters day
and requires several trained and sklllful med
| ical assistants and shorthand reporters to en-
able him to entertain and answer them), as
we'll as his large daily dealings with disease
at the Worlds Dispensary, appear to have pc
| culiarly fitted him for writing the Work, by
rendering him very familiar with the every
day medical needs of the people. He en-
| beavers in this work, to answer all the nu-
merous questions relating to health and dis
ease 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
self-cure made known. Unlike other works
| on Domestic Medicine, it includes the sub
| jects of biology, Cerebral Physiology, Hygiene,
! Temperaments, Marriage, Reproduction, etc.,
! all of which are treated in an original and
interesting manner. 1t is a compendium
of Anatomical, Physiological and Medical
| Science, and embodies the latest discoveries
| in each department.