The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1875-03-19
A S4O0 BOOK FOR $50.

I
The Peoples Common Sense Medical
Adviser, IN plain Engliah, or Medicine
Slmplifed: BY r. v, PIERcE, n D.
CounseloF-in-Chiei Of the Board Of Phyai'
clans and Surgeons, At the World's Dis
penSary, Buffalo, NY. The above Work
la book OF about nina hundred large
pages, pFoiusely illustrated with Wood
Engraving and COlored plates, and well
and strongly bopnd-Eill DO sent post
paid, to any address, for One Dollar and
Fifty Cents-making 1t the cheapest
book ever offered to the American Peo-
pie, Other books treating OF domestic
medicine, OF like size and style OF bind
ing, and not nearly IA well illustrated,
with no colored plates, and some OF them
containing no prescriptions and making
known no means o fself-cure for the dis
eases which they discuss, sell for from
three dollars and q half to five dollars,
Were DR.. Pierce's Work not published
by the author, printed and bound with
his own machinery, and Wero It sold
through agents, o. other like works are,
the price Of It would have to DO not less
than four dollars. For when the pub.
Usher pays the author fair price for hiS
production, then adds profit to his in.
yestment large enough TO satisfy himself
and compensate him, not only for his Ia
Dor, but also for the risk Of pecuniary
loss which hs assumes in taking tho
chances Of the enterprise proving sue
cess, and when the State, County and can.
wasting agent has each received his profit,
they have added to the expense Of book,
that originally cost about Sl.25, so much
that the people have TO pay not lGSs
than $500 for it, Tho Peoples Medi.
cal Adviser, on tho contrary; y placed
within tho peouniary reach Of all classes
by the author, who adopts the plan Of the
Graugors, dispensing with middle men
and giving tho benefit Of their profits to
the people, offering his book at price
little above actual cost Of publication,
That thoSe desiring tho book may run no
risk oil losing their money In sending II
through tho mails, tile author adyertiNCs
that money addressed to him at Buffalo,
N, Y, and inclosed In registered letters,
may DO 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 q day, and requires
several trained and skillful medical as
Sistants and shorthand reporters to ona.
bic him 10 entertain and answer them as
well as his large daily dealings with d.
sGaso at tho Worlds Dispensary, appear
10 have peculiarly fitted him for writing
tho Work, by rendering him very
uniliar with the every day medical needs
OF tho people, He endeavOrs in this
Work to answer all the numerous, guess
lions relating to health and disease that
have been addressed to him by tho people
from all parts Of tho land, and hence II
contains Important information for the
young and old, malO and female, single
and married, nowhere else to DO found.
All the most prevalent diseases Of both
sexes are also plainly md fully consider
cd and means Of aull.cure made known.
Unlike other works on Domestic Medi-
cinc, II includes the subjects Of Biology,
Cerebral, Psychology, Hygiene, TCmpara:
ments, Marriage, Reproduction, etc, all
Of which arc treated In an original and
interesting manner It's n compendium
Of Anatomical, Physiological and Medical
Science, and embodlos the latest dis.
oovories in each department.
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