Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1875-03-25
A 81 90 Rook for Al so.

The Peoples Common Sense Medical
Adviser, in plain English, or Medicine
Simplifed: BY r. V. Bierce, M. D.,
| Counselor-in-C Chief of the Board of Phys
icians and Surgeons, at the Worlds Dis
pensary, 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, post
paid, 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 medi-
cine, 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 dis
eases which they discuss, sell for from
three dollars and a half to five dollars.
Were DR.. Pierces work not published
by the author, printed and bound with
his own machinery, 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 tie pub
Usher pays the author fair price for his
production, then adds profit to his in
vestment 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 sue
cess, 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
s %, so much that the people have to
pay not less than 81 90 tor it. The
Peoples Medical Adviser, on the contra
ry, is placed within the peCuniary reach
of all classes by the author, who adopts
the plan of the Changers, dispensing
with middle men and giving the benefit
of their profits to the people, offering
his book at price little above the cost
of publication. That those desiring the
book may run no risk of losing their
money in sending it through the mails,
the author adVertises that money adj
dressed to him at Buffalo, n. Y, and
inclosed in registered letters, may be at
his risk of loss. The authors large cor
respondence with the people upon medi-
cal matters, which we are Credibly in
formed frequently exceeds three hun
dred letters day, and requires several
trained and skillful medical assistants
and shorthand reporters 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 him for writing the
work. by rendering him very familiar
with the every day medical needs of5the
people He endeavors IN this work TO
answer all the numerous questions relat-
ing to health and disease that have been
addressed to him ny 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 sex
es are also plainly and fully considered
and means of self-cure made known.
Unlike other works on Domestic Medi-
cine, it includes the subject of biology,
cerebral physiology, hygiene, tempera-
ments, 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 discov- |
cries in each department.