The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1875-03-23
A $500 Book for $1.5O.

The Peoples Common Sense Medical
Adviser, or in plain English, Medicine
simplifed BY X. V. Pierce, NJ. d.,
Counsellor.in. Chief of the Board Of the
Physicians and Surgeons, at the Worlds
Dispensary, Buffalo, N. Y. The above
work--a book OF about niue hundred
large pages, profusely illustrated with
wood engravings and colorcd plates, and
well and strongly bound-will be sent
post paid to any address, for one dollar
and fifty ccnts-making it the cheapest
book ever offered to the American people.
Other books treating Of domestic medi-
cine, of like size and style Of binding, aud
not nearly as well illustrated with no
colorcd plates, and some Of them contain.
ing no prescriptions and making known
no means Of selEcurc for the diseases
which they discuss, sell for from three
dollars and half to FIVE dollars. Were
DR., Pierce's work not published by the
author, printed 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
dollars. For when the publisher 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 also for
the risk of pecuniary loss which he as.
sumes in taking the chances Of the enter
prise proving success, and when tho
state. county and canvassing agent has
each received his profit they have added
to the expense of book, that originally
cost about 81 ,25, so much that the peoI lc
have to pay not less than S4.00 for it.
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 Granger, dispens-
ing with middle men and giving the ben.
eft Of their profits to the people Offering
hia book at a price little above actual
cost of publication. That those desiring
the book may run no risk Of losing their
money in sending it through the mails,
the author advertises that money address.
ed to him at Buffalo, N. Y, and inclosed
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loss The authors large correspondence
with the people upon medical matters,
which VIC are creditably informed fire..
quently exceeds three hundred letters a
day, and requires several trained and
skiIlful medical assistants and shorthand
reporters to enable him to entertain and
answer them, as well as his large daily
dealing with disease at the Worlds Dis
pensary, 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 endeav.
ors in this work to answer ali the numer-
Gus questions relating to health aud dis.
ease that have been addressed TO him by
the people from all parts Of the land, aud
hence it contains important information
Tor the young and old, male AID female
single aud married, nowhere else to be
found. Almost all the prevalent diseases
Of both sexes arc also plainly aud fully
considered and means of scll-curo made
known. Unlike other works on domestic
medicine, it includes the subjects oil
Biology, Cerebral Physiology, Hygiene
Temperaments, Marriage, Reproduction
ETC., all Of which are treated in an orig
inal and interesting manner 1t is a com.
pendulum Of Anatomical, Physiological
and Medical Sclence, and cmbodies the
latest discoveries in each department.