Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1875-05-19

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The Peoples Common Sense Medical Adj
wiser, in plain English, or Medicine Simpli-
fled: by r. V. Pierce. VI. D., counselor-ln-
chief Of the Board of Physicians and Sur
geOrs at the Worlds Dispensary. Buffalo. y.
\. The above work. 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 ami
Fifty CentS-making il The cheapest book erer
GDtfoi 10 the american people. Other books
treating Of domestic medicine, of like-Size
and style of binding, and not nearly "a well
illustrated, with no colOred plates and some
of them containing no prescriptions and
making known no means of SelfcUre for the
diseases which they discuss. sell for from
three dollars and half to five dollars. Were
DIR. Pierce's Work not published by the au-
thor, printed and bound with his own ma
chinery, and were il sold through agents as
other like works are, the price OF IL would
have to be not less than tour dollars. For
when the publisher pays the author fair
price for his production. then adds profit to
his investment large enough to satisfy him
self and compensate him, not only for his
labor. but also for the risk of pePuniary loss
which ne assumes in taking the chances of
the enterprise proving success, and when
the state, county and canvassing agent has
each received his profit, they have added to
the expense of book, that originally cost
Sl25, so much that the people have 10 pay
mol less than 81 for il. The Peoples Medical
Adviser, on the contrary, is placed within
the pecIniary reach of all classes by the au-
tiibI WHO etuOpts tIl6 pam bl the NVfdilEtf<
dispensing with middle men and giving the
benefit Of their profits to the people, offering
his hook at price little above actual cost OF
publication. That those desiring the book
may run no risk OF losing their money in
sending 1t through the mails, the author add
veTtises that money addressed 10 him at
Buffalo, n. Y, and Enclosed in registered let
tiers. may be at his risk of loss. rhe authors
large correspondence with the people upon
medical matters. which we are cTedibly in
formed, frequently exceeds three hundred
letters day, and requires several trained
and Skiilful medical assistants and short
hand reporters TO enable him to entertain
and answer them, as well as his large daily
sary, appear 10 have peculiarly fitted him
for writing the work, by rendering him very
familiar with the every day medical needs
Of the people. He endeavOrs in this work to
answer ali the numerous questions relating
TO health and disease that have been adj
dressed TO him by the people from all parts
OF the land, and hence IL 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
botn sexes are also plainly and fully conSid-
cred and means of Self-cure made known.
Unlike other works on Domestic Medicine
~ includes the subjects of Biology, Cerebral
Physiology, Hygiene, Temperaments, Mar
riage. Reproduction, etc, all of which are
treated in an original and interesting man
ner. 1t is compendium of Anatomical.
Physiological and Medical Science, and en-
boGIeS the latest discoveries in each depart-
ment. eoSk
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