Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1875-04-09
A "a Book for 81 so.

The Peoples Common Sense Medical Adviser,
in plain English, or Medicine simplihed, by R.
V. Pierce, NJ D., Counselor-in-chief Of the Board
Of ofPhysicians and Surgeons, at the Worlds Dis
pensary, Buffalo, N Y. The above work-a book
of about nine hufdred large pages, profusely il
lustrated with wood engraving and colored plates,
and well and strongly bound-win he sent post
paid TO any address for One Dollar and Fifty nts,
making it the Cheapest Book ever offered TO the
American people. Other books treating of do
nestle medicine of like size and style of binding,
and not nearly as well illustrated, with colored
mates. and some of them containing no prescrip-
lions and making known no means of selfcure
for the diseases which they discuss sell for from
three dollars and q half to five dollars. Were DR..
Pierce's work not published by the author, print
ed 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 do
lars. For when the publis her pays the author
fair price for his production, then adds profit to
his investment large enough to satisfy himself
and compensate him not only for his labor. but
for the risk of pecuniary lossiwhich he assumes in
taking the chances Of the enterprise proving
success, and when the State, County and canvass
ing agents has each received his profit, they have
added to the expenses OF q book that originally
cost about l.25 so much that people have to pay
not less than 81 for it. The Peoples Medical Ad-
wiser on the contrary. is placed within the pecu-
MARY reach of all classes by the author who
adopts the plan Of the Changers, dispensing with
| midde-men and giving the benefit of their profits
to the people, offering his book at price little
| above the actual cost of publication: That those
| desiring the book may run no risk OF losing
their money through the mails, the author adyer-
| tises that money addressed to him at Buffalo, N.
| Y and enclosed in REGISTERED letters, may be
at his rick of loss The authors large correspond
/ ence with the people on medical matters, which
we are creitabfy informed frequently exceeds 3O0
letters and requires several trained and skillful
| medical assistants and shorthand reporters TO
| enable him 10 entertain and answer them, as well
| as his large daily dealings with diseases at the
| Worlds Dispensary appear 10 have peculiarly mt
| ted him for writing the work, by rendering him
| very familiar with the everyday medical needs OF
| the people, He endeavors in this work to answer
all the numerous questions relating to health and
| disease that have been addressed to him by the
people from all parts of the land, and henceit con-
| taing important information for the young and
| old male and female single and married. rowhere
| else to be found. All the most prevalent diseases
| of both sexes are plainly, fully considered, ano
| means of self cure made known. Unlike other
works on Domestic Medicine, it includes the sub
| iects of Biology, Cerebral PLY siology, Hygiene
| Temperamenfs, Marriage Reproduction: ETC., al
of which are treated in an original and interest
ing manner. 1t is a compendium OF Anatomical
Physiology and Medical Science, and embodies
the latest discoveries in each department.