Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1875-05-15
A $500 Book for $3.50.

The Peoples Common Sense Medical Ad.
wiser, in plain English, or Medicine Simplifed
By r. V. Pierce, N. D., counselor-in-chief of
the board of physicians and surgeons at the
worlds dispensary, Buffalo, N. Y. The above
work-a book of about nine hundred large
pages, profusely illustrated with wood engrav-
ings and colored plates, aud well and strongly
bound-will be sent, postpaid, to any address,
for one dollar and fifty cents-making it the
ch eapest 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 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.
We're DIR. Pierces 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 when the
publisher pays the author fair price for his
production, then adds profit to his invest
ment large enough to satisfy himself and COM
pensate 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 can
wasting agent has each received his profit, they
have added to the expense of book, that
originally costs about 81. 25, SO much that 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 Civ
ing the benefit of their profits to the people,
offering his book at price little above
actual cost Of publication. That those de-
string the book may run no risk of losing their
money in sending it through the mails, the
author advertises that money addressed to
him at Buffalo. N. Y, and inclosed in registered
| letters, may be 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 day, and requires several trained and
| skillful medical assistants and shorthand re.
porters to enable him to entertain and answer
them, as well as his large daily dealings with
disease at the worlds dispensary, appear to
have peculiarly fitted himl for writing the
work, by rendering him familiar with the every
day medical needs of the people. He endeavors
| in this work to answer all the numerous ques-
| tions relating to health and disease that have
| been addressed to him by the people from al
! parts of the land and hence it contains mpor-
| tant 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 con-
sidered and means of self-cure made known.
Unlike other works on domestic medicine. il
includes the subjects of biology, cerebral, ply
| siology, hygiene, temperments, marriage, repro
duction, ETC., all of which are treated in an
original and interesting manner. 1t is COM
pendulum of anatomical, physiological and medi.
cal science, and embodies the latest discoveries
in each department-Co