The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-03-08
Wonders of Modern science.

The perfect accuracy with which scientists
are enabled to deduee the most minute par
ticulars in their several departments ap-
pears almost miraculous, if we view it in the
light of the early ages. Take for example
the electromagnetic telegraph-the greatest
invention of the age. Is it not a marvellous
degree of accuracy which enables anoperstor
to eractly locate a fracture in q submarine
cable nearly three thousand miles long?
Our venerable clerk of the weather" has be-
come so thoroughly familiar with those most
hayward elements of nature that he can ae-
curately 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 hundred miles
did not intervene between him and the
places named. And so in all departments of
modern science, what is required is the
knowledge of certain signs. From these the
scientists deduce accurate conclusions re-
gardless of distance. A few fossils sent to
the expert g~eologist enable him to accurately
determine the rock formation from which
they were taken. He can describe it to you
as perfectly as if q cleft of it were lying on
his table. So also the chemist can determine
the constitution of the sun as accurately as
if thatluminary were not ninety-fve million
miles from his laboratory. The sun sends
certain signs over the "infinitude of space"
anu bAC OACh41cb O4dcoluC6 LllCm ny Dho6lue
them through the spectroscope. Only the
presence of certain substances could produce
these solar signs. So alsoi in medical science,
diseases have certain u~nmistakable signs or
symptoms, and by reason of this fact DIR.
Pierce, of the Worlds Dispensary, has been
enabled to originate and perfect a system
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 as
sociate with himself as the Faculty of the
Worlds Dispensary, a large number of med.
ical gentlemen of rare attainments and skill
graduates from some of the most famous
Medical Colleges and Universities of both
Europe and America. By aid of DR.. Pierce's
system of diagnosis these physicians and
surgeons annually treat, with the most graft.
flying success, many thousands of invalids
without ever seeing them in person. In
recognizing diseases without a personal ex.
animation of the patient, they claim to pos.
sess no miraculous powers. They attain
their knowledge of the patients disease by
the practical application of well-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 OF
chronic affections. This system Of practice
/ and the marvellous success which has been
attained through it, demonstrate the fact that
{ diseases display certain phenomena, which
being subjected to scientific analysis or syn
/ thesis, furnish abundant and unmistakable
data to guide the judgment of the skillful
: practitione r arighti in determiningt the nature
of diseased conditions. The amplest re
/ sources for treating lingering or 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 a specially. The peculiar
tiles Of this scientific system Of practice are
fully explained in The Appendix of "Tht
Peoples Common Sense Medical Adviser
/ a book of over nine hundred large pages
which is SO popular as to have reached a sale
of almost one hundred thousand copie.
within a few months of its first publication
1t is sent (~post-paid) by the author, to any
address, on receipt of one dollar and fit
CENTS. Address r. V. Pierce, NJ. D., World
Dispensary, Buffalo, N. Y.