The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1875-03-09
A So 90 BOOK For ST SO.

The Peoples Common Sense Medical Adviser,
In plain English, or Medicine Simplified by r.
" Pierce, M. D., counselor-i chief of the Board
of Physicians and Surgeons, at the Worlds
Dlspensary, Buffalo, N. Y. The above work-a
book OF about 800 large pages, profusely Illus
trated with wood engravings and colored plates
and well and strongly bound-wil be sent, post
paid, to any address for One Dol ar and Fifty
Cents-making 1t the cheapest book ever
ohered 10 the American People. Other
books treating OF domestic medicine, of Ike
size and style OF binding, and not nearly az
well illustrated, with no colored plates, and
some ofthem containing no prescriptions and
making known no means of self-cure- for the
diseases which they discuss, sell for from So 50
to IS. Were Dr. Pierce's work not published by
the author, printed and bound with his own
machinery, and were 1t sold through egents, as
other like works are, the price of 1t would have
to be no less than four dollars. For when
the publisher pays the author a 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 also for the risk
of pecuniary loss which he 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 10 the expense of a book, that originally
cost about 81 %, much that the people have
TO pay not less than 81 for il. The Peoples
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
benefit OF their profits TO the people, oGerir 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 sending it
through the mails, the author advertises that
money addressed to him at Buffalo, n. Y, and
inclOsed in registered letters, may be al his
risk ofloss. The authors large correspondence
with the people upon medical matters, which
we are eredibly informed, frequently exceeds 500
letters day. and requires several trained and
skillful medical as istants and short hand re-
porters to enable him to entertain and answer
them, as well as his large daily dealings with
disease at the Worlds Dispensary, appear TO
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 all the numerous ques-
tons relating to health and disease that have
been addressed TO him by the people from all
parts OF the land, and hence 1t contains i'm
portant information for the young and old,
male and female, single and married, nowhere
else TO be found. All the most prevalent dis
eases of both sexes are also plainly and fully
considered, and means Of self-cure made known.
Unlike other works on Domestic Medicine, 1t
includes the subjects of Biology, Cerebral Physi-
o.Ogy, Hygiene, Tsmperaments, Marriage, Re-
production, etc, all of which are treated in an
original and interesting manner. 1t is q COM
pendulum of Anatomical, Physiological and
Medical Science, and embodies the latest dis
coveries in each depar iment