Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1877-03-31
Wonders of Modern Science.

The perfect accuracy with which scientists are
enabled to deduce the most minute particulars in
their several departments, appears almost miracu-
lous if we view it in the light of the early ages.
Take for example the electro Magnetic telegraph
the greatest invention of the age. Is it not
marvellous degree of accuracy which enables the
operator TO exactly locate fracture in a subma-
rine cable nearly three thousand miles long
Our venerable "clerk of the weather" has become
so thoroughly familiar with those most hayward
elements of nature that he can accurately predict
their movements. He can sit in Washington and
foretell what the weather will be tomorrow in
Florida or New York, as well as if several hun
dred miles did not intervene between him and
the places named. And so in all departments of
modern science, what is required is the knowl-
edge OF certain signs. From these the scientists
deduce accurate conclusions regardless of dis
lance. a few fossils sent to the expert geoogist
enable him 10 accurately determine the rock
| formation from which they were taken. He can
describe 1t to you perfectly if cleft of it
were lying on his table So also the chemist can
determine the constitution of the sun as accu-
rately as If that lumnary not ninety-fve
million miles from his laboratory. The sun sends
certain signs over the "infinitude of space" and
the chemist Classics them by passing them
through the spectroscOpe. Only the presence of
certain substances could produce these solar signs.
SO also, in medical science, diseases have certain
unmstakeable signs, or symptoms, and by reason
OF this TACT, Dr. Pierce, of the Worlds Dispensary,
has been enabled to originate and perfect sys-
TEN of determining, with the greatest accuracy,
the nature Of chronic diseases without seeing and
personally examining his patients. He has spared
neither pains nor expense TO associate with him
self, as the Faculty of the Worlds Dispensary
large number of medical gentlemen of rare attain
ments and undergraduates from some of the
most famous Medical Colleges and Universities
of both Europe and America. BY aid of DIR.
Pierce's system of diagnosis, these physicians and
| surgeons usually treat, with the most gratifying
success, many thousands of invalids without ever
seeing them in person. In recognizing diseases
without personal examination of the patient
they claim to possess DO miraculous powers.
They attain their knowledge of the patients dis
ease by the practical application of well establish
ed principles OF modern science to the practice of
medicine. And it is to the accuracy with which
this system has endowed them, that they owe
their slmost world wide reputation for the skill
full treatment Of all lingering or chronic affec-
ton. This system of practice and the marvellous
| success which has been attained through it, dem
onstrate the fact that diseases display certain phe
nomena, which being subjected to scientific analy-
| Sis or synthesis, furnish abundant and unmstak.
able data TO guide the Judgment of the skilful
practitioner Alright in determining the nature of
diseased conditions The ampliest resources for
treating lingering or chronic diseases, and the
greatest skill, are thus placed within the easv
reach of every invalid however distant he or she
may reside from the physicians making the treat
ment OF such affections Q speciality. The pecul-
arties Of this scientific system of practice are
fully explained in the, Appendix of 1.-The Peoples
Common Sense Medical Adviser book of over
nine hundred large pages, which is so popular as
to have reached sale of almost one hundred
thousand copies within few months of its first
publication. 1t is sent (post-paid) by the Author
10 any address, on receipt of one dollar and fifty
cents. Address Il. V. Pierce, NJ D. Worlds
Dispensary, Buffalo, Y. ltd&g