The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-05-14
a 1900 Book Tor $50.

The Peoples Common Sense Medical Ad-
wiser, in plain English, or Medicine Simplified:
By r. " PIERCE N D., Chief of
the Board of Physicians and Surgeons, at the
Worlds Dispensary, Buffalo. N. <. The above
work book of about nine hundred large
pages, profusely illustrated with wood engrav-
ings and colored plates, and well and strongly
bound-wiIl be sent, post paid, to any address,
for One Dollar and Fifty Cents-nAking it The
cheapest book eUer offered to the Aases-acGn Peo-
cine, of like size and style OF binding. and not
nearly as we'll illustrated, with colored plates.
and some of them containing no prescriptions
the diseases which they discuss, sell for from
three dollars and . half 70 i've dollars. Were
DIR. Pierce's Work not published by the author,
printed and bound with his own machinery and
were it sold through agents - other like works
are, the price of it would have 70 be not less
than four dollars. For when the publisher
pays the suthor fair price for nus producson,
enough to satisfy himself and compensate him,
not only for his labor, but also for the risk of
pecuniary loss which hss assumes in taking the
and when the State county and canvasssing
agent has each received his profit, they have
added to the expense of book, that originally
cost about 81. IS 30 much that the people have
to pay not less than s4.00 for it. The Peoples
Medical Adviser, the contrary, Is 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
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 addressed to him at Buffalo, N. Y. 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 informed frequently exceeds
three hundred letters day, and requires sew
eral trained and skillful medical assistants and
shorthand reporters to enable him to entertain
and answer them, Is 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 questions relating to health and dis
ease that have been addressed to him by the
people from all parts of the land, and hence it
contains important information for the young
and old, male and female. single and married.
nowhere else to be found. AL the most preva-
lent diseases of both sexes are also plainly and
fully considered, and means of self-cure made
known. Unlike other works on Domestic Med
icine, it includes the subjects of Biology, Cere-
bral Physiology Hygiene, Temperaments, Mar
riage Reproduction, ETC., all of which are
treated in an original and interesting manner.
It is compendium of Anatomical Physiologi-
cal and Medical Science, and embodies the
| latest discoveries in each department.