The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1875-03-18
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The Peoples Common Sense Medical
Adviser, in plain English, or Medicine
simplifed BY R. Y. Pierce, NJ. D.,
Counselor-in-C Chief of the Board of Physi-
clans and Surgeons, at the Worlds Dispen-
sary;; Buffalo, N. Y. The abovez Work-a
book Of about nine hundred. large pages,
profusely illustrated with Wood 4Enprav.
ings and .Colored plates, and we'll and
strongly bound-will he sent, post paid, to
any address, for One Dollar and Fifty Cents
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 well
illustrated, with no colored plates, and some
Of them containing no prescriptions and
making known no means nof: self-cure
for the diseases which they discuss, sell for
from three dollars and i half to i've dollars.
Were pr. Pierce's Work not published by
The authot, printed and bound with
sold through agents, ~zas other like
works arr, the price; of it would
have 70 be not less than four dollars. For
when the publishet pays the author = fair
price for his production, then adds profit
to his investment large enough to satisfy
himself and compensate him, not only tor
his labor, bat also for the risk of pecuniary
Loss which he assumes in taking the cham
ces of the enterprise proving success, and
when the State, county and canvassing
agent ha. each received his profit, they
have added to the expense of book, that
originally cost about $1.25, 80 much that
the people have to pay not less than $500
for it. The Peoples Medical Adviser, on
the contrary, il 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 actual cost of publ
cation. That those desiring the book may
run no risk of losing their money in send
ing it throug h the mails, the author adver-
tises that money addressed to him at Buffa-
10, N; T., and inclosed 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
letters day, and requires several trained
ana skilltul medical assistants and short
hand reporters to enable him to entertain
and answer them, as well ~ his large daily
dealings with disease At the. Worlds Dis
| gese.1ys sPPe"1 70 nave PECULIARLY lifted
him very familiar with the every d.y med
ical needs Of the people. He endeayors in
this work TO answer Ill the numerous cues
tions relating to health ana dlsesse that
have bean sddrea.ed 70 him b., the. 4peopIe
nom oil parts Of the land, and hence t con-
tains important information for The young
and old, male and female, single and mar.
NED, nowhere else to be found. ;. All the
most prevalent diseases Of both sexes are
a!so plainly and fully considered and means
Of self-cure made known. Unlike other
works on Domestic Medicine, It include
the subjects Of Biology, Cerebral Phvsiolo.
81, Hygiene, Temperaments, Marriage,
Reproduction, ETC., ill Of which are treated
IN IN original and interesting manner. Il
- compendium Of Anatomical, Phyaioloe.
jcel and Medical Science, and enbodies The
--latest discoveries in each department.