Litchfield enquirer., 1877-02-15
WONDERS OF MODERN SCIENCE.

The perfect accuracy with which scien- tist are enabled to deduce the most mi mute particulars in their several depart mentt appears almost miraculous If we view 1t 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 &C., curacy which enables an operator to e1- 0ctty locate 8 fracture in a submarine cable nearly three thousand miles long? Our venerable "clerk of the weather" has become so thoroughly familiar with those most wayward clements of nature that he can accurately predict their movements. He can sit in Washington and foretell what the weather will be to morrow in Florida or New York, as we'll as if several hundred miles did not intervene between him and the places named, And so in all departments of modern science, what is the knowledge of certain signs. From these the scientists deduce accurate con- clusions regardless of distance. A few fossils sent to the expert geologist enable him to accurately determine the rock-for- matlon from which they were taken. He can decribe it to you as perfectly as if a cleft of it were ly1ng on his table. So al- so the chemist can determine the constitu- tion of the sun as accurately as if that lu- minary were not ninetY-fve million miles from his laboratory. The sun sends cer- tain signs over the ''infnitude of space" and the chemist classities 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 un- mistakable signs, or symptoms, and by reason of this fact, Dr. Pierce, of the Worlds Dispensary, has been enabled to originate and perfect 8 system of deter mining, 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 himself, as the Faculty of the Worlds Dispensary, large num- Der of medical gentlemen of rare attain the most famous. Medical Colleges and Universities of bothe Europe and Amer ica By aid of Dr. Pierce's system of diagnosis, these physicians and surgeons annually treat, with the most gratifying success, many thousands of invalids with oat ever seeing them in person. In rec- ognizing diseases: without a personal ex- animation of the patient they claim to possess no. miraculous powers. They at- tain their knowledge of the patients dis ease by the practical application of we'll established 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 almost worldwide reputation for the skillful treatment'of all lingering or chronic af- fections. This system of practice and the marvellous success which has been at- tained through it, demonstrate the fact that diseases display certain phenomena, which being subjected to scientific andy sis or synthesis, furnish abundant and unmistakable data to guide the judgment of the skillful practitioner aright in de- termining the nature of diseased condl- tions. The amplest resources for treating lingering or chronic diseases, and the greatest skill, are thus placed within the easy reach of every invalid, however dis tant he or she may reside from the phy- sicians making the treatment of such af- fections speciality. The peculiarities of this scientific system of practice are fully explained in the Appendix of "The Peo- ple's Common Sense Medical Adviser."- a book of over nine hundred large pages, which is so popular as to have reached sale of almost one hundred thousand cop ies within few months of it's first publi- cation, It is sent (post-paid) by the Au- thor to any address on receipt of one dol lar and fifty cents. Address, R.V Pierce. M. b., World'ss Dispensary, Buffalo, N. Y,