National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1875-05-03
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The Peoples Common Sense Medical Adviser,
In plain English; or, Medicine Simplihed. BY r.
v Pierce, II. D., counselo-- In chief of the Board
of Physicians and Surgeons Of the Worlds dis
penssry, Buffalo, N. Y. The above Work-a book
Of about nine hundred large pages, profusely IL
lustrated with wood engraVings and eolored
plates, and we'll and strongly bOund-Will be sent,
st-paid, to any address, for one dollar and hty
cents, making 1t the cheapest book ever offered
to the American people. Other books treating Of
domestic medicine, OF like size and style of bind
ing, and not nearly as we'll illustrated, with no
colored plates, and some of them containing no
prescriptions, and making known no means OF
selEeure for the diseases which they discuss, sell
for from three dollars and q half TO 1--WE dollars
Were DIR. Pierce's work not published by the
author, printed and bound with his own machine
~, and were II sold through agents, as other like
works are, the price Of It would have to be not
less than four dollars. For when the publisher
pays the author fair price for his production,
then adds proht 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 q success, and when the
State, county and canVassing agent has each re-
ceiVed his profit, they have added to the expense
Of o9ok that originally cost about 81 Is so much
for it. The Peoples Medical Adviser, on the con-
trary, is placed within the pecuniary reach Of all
classes by the author, who adopts the plan Of the
GTanRers, dispensing with middle men and giving
the beneft Of their profits to the people, offering
bis book at price little above actual cost pub
InaL lnOse the OOOk may
no risk Of losing their money In sending It through
the mails, the author adVertises that money ad-
dressed to him at Buffalo, N. l., and inelosed IN
registered letters, may be at his risk Of loss. The
authors large correspondence with the people
upon medical matteTs-Which we are eredIbly in
formed frequently exceeds three hundred letters
Gay, and requires several trained and skillful
medical assistants and short. hand reporters to
enable him to entertain and answer them-as we'll
as his large daily dealings with disease at ;he
Worlds dispensary, appear to have peculiarly
fitted him for writing the work, by rendering him
very familiar with the everyday medical needs
Of the people. He endeavors in this work to an
swer 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 hence
II 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 both sexes are also plainly and fully
considered and means Of selEeure made known.
Unlike other works on domestic medicine, it in
cludes the subjects Of Biology, Cerebral Physio-
logy, Hygiene, TemperamenIs, Marriage, Repro
duction, &c. all Of which treated in an original
and interesting manner. 1t is q compendium Of
anatomical, physiological and medical science,
and embOdies the latest discoveries in each de-
partment.