The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1875-05-20
A $4.OO Book for $3.50.

The Peoples Common Sense Medical Ad-
vser, in plain English, or Medicine SimpliGed
BY r. V. Pierce, M. 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 engray-
ings 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
medicine of like size and style of binding. and
not nearly as we'll 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.. Perces work not published by the
author, printed and bound with his own ma
chinery, and were it sold through agents, az
other like works are, the price of it would have
to be not less then four dollars. For when
the publisher pays the author fair price for
his production, then adds a profit to hls inveet-
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 cam
vassing agent has each received his profit, they
have added to the expense of book, that
originally costs abaut s1.25, so much that the
people have to pay not less than $4,000 for it,
The People 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
giving the benefits of their profits to the peo-
pie, Offering his book at a little above actual
cost Of publication. That those desiring the
book may run no risk of losing their money in
sending it through the mails, the author ad-
vertses that money addressed to him a
Buffalo, n. y, and irclosed in registered
letters 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 three hundred let
ters a day, and requires several trained and
porters to enable him to entertain and answer
them, as well as his large daily dealings with
disease at the worlds dispensary, appear to
by rendering him very 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 aud disease that have
been addressed to him by the people from all
parts Of the land, and hence it contains impor-
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 al-o plainly and fully con-
sidered and means of self-cure made known
Unlike other works on domestic medicine it
includes the subjects of biology, cerebral ply
siology, hygiene, temperaments, marriage, re-
production, ETC., all of which are treated in an
original and interesting manner. 1t is a COM
pendulum of anatomical, physiological and medi-
cal SCIENCE and embodies the latest discoveries
in each department.-CO Com.