Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1877-03-17
Wonders Of Modern Science.

The perfect accuracy with which scientists
are enabled TO deduce themost minute particu-
lars in their several departments, appears al
most miraculous IL we view il in the light Of
the early ages. Take for example, the electro
magnetic telegraph the greatest invention Of
the age. Is it not a marvellous degree of ac-
euracy which enables an operator to erdctiy
locate fracture in a submarine cable nearly
three thousand miles long? Our venerable
clerk of the weather " has become 80 thor
oughly familiar with those most maynard ele-
ments of nature that he can accurately predict
their movements. He can sit in Washington
and foretell what the weather will be to-mor-
row in Florida or New York. as well as if several
hundred miles did not intervene between
him and the places named. And so in all de-
partments of modern science. what is required
is the knowledge of certain signs. From these
the scientists deduce accurate conclusions re-
| CARELESS of distance. A few fossils sent to the
expert geOlogist enable him to accurately de-
termine the rock formation from which they
were taken. He can describe it to you as per-
fectly as II cleft of il were lying on his table
( so also tbs chemist can determine the consti-
tuition of the sun as accurately sif that lumin-
airy were not ninety-tive million miles from his
/ laboratory. The sun sends certain Signs over
! the " intnitude of space" and the chemist
classiies 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
unmistakable signs, or symptoms, and by rea-
son of this fact, DIR. Pierce, of the Worlds
Dlspensary, has been enabled to originate and
! perfect system of determining, with the
| greatest accuracy, the nature Of chronic dis
ease 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, a large
number of medical gentleman of rare attain
ments and skill graduates from some of the
most famous medical colleges and universities
of both Europe and America. BY aid of DIR.
Piecre s system of diagnosis, these physicians
and surgeons annually treat, with the most
gratifying success, many thousands of invalids
without ever seeing them in person. In recog-
| nlZlng diseases without personal examine
ton of the patient they claim to possess no
miraculous powers. They attain their knowl-
edge of the patients disease by the practical
application Of well established principles of
modern science to the practice Of medicine.
! And 1t is to the accuracy with which this sys-
tenn has endowed them that they owe their
almost world wide reputation for the skilful
treatment of all lingering or chronic affections.
This system of practice and the marvellous sue
cess which has been attained through it, de-
monstrate the fact that diseases display certain
phenomena, which being subjected to scientific
anal ysis or synthesis furnish abundant and
unmlstakable data to guide the Judgment OF
the skillful practitioner Alright in determining
the nature Of diseased conditions. The
amplest resources for testing lingering OF
chronic diseases, and the greatest skill, are
thus placed within the easy reach of every in.
valid, however distant he or she may reside
from the physicians making the treatment OF
such affections specially. The peculiaritie,
of this scientific system OF practice are fully
explained in the appendix of "The People,
Common Sense Medical Adviser "A book o
over nine hundred large pages, which is 81
popular as to have reached a sale Of almos
one hundred thousand copies within a fey
!, months of its first publication 1t is sen
: (post-paid) by the author to any address, OF
! receipt of one dollar and fifty cents Address
+ X. V; Pierce, NJ. D., Worlds Dispensary
Buffalo, New York.