Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1877-03-22
Wonders of Modern Science.

The perfect accuracy with which scientist
are enabled To dedace the most minute particu
lars in their several departments, appears al
most miraculous if We view it in the light Of
the early ages. Take for example the electro
magnetic telegraph greatest invention oi
the age. Is il not a marvellous degree of accu
racy which enables an operator t0 exactly 10
cate fracture IN submarine cable nearly
three thousand mics long? Our venerable
''clerk of the weather has become 80 thor
oughly familiar with those most wayward ele
ments of nature that he can accurately predict
their movements. He can sit in Washington
and foretell what the weather will be to NOR
row in Florida or New York, as well as if sew.
eral 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.
gardless of distance. A few fossils sent to the
expert geolcgist enable him to accurately de.
termine the rock k-formation from which they
were taken. He can describe it to you as per.
fectly as if cleft of it were lying on his table
So also tie chemist can determine the constitu-
ton of the sun as accurately az if that lumina-
ry were not ninety five million miles from his
laboratory The sun sends certain signs over
the ''infinitude of space" and the chemist clas-
SITES them by passing them through the epec-
troscope. Only the presence of certain sub
stances 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 World 8
Dispensary, has been enabled to originate and
perfect system of determining, with the great
est accuracy, the nature of chronic diseases
without seeing and personally examining his
patients. He has spared neither pains nor ex-
pense to associate with himself, as the Faculty
of the Worlds Dispensary, large number Of
medical gentlemen of rare attainments and
skill-graduates from some of the most famous
Medical Colleges and Universities of both Eu.
rope and America. By aid of Dr. Pierces sys.
tenn of diagnosis, these physicians and sur
geons annually treat, with the most gratifying
success, many thousands of invalids without
evei seeing them in person. In recognizing
diseases without personal examination of the
patient they claim to possess no miraculous
powers. They attain their knowledge of the
patients disease by the practical application of
well established principles of modern science
10 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 lin
gering or 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 synthe-
sis, furnish abundant and unmistakable data to
guide the Judgment of the skillful practitioner
Alright in determining the nature of diseased
conditions. The amplest resources for treat
ing lingering or chronic Diseases and the great
est skill, are thus placed within the easy reach
Of every invalid, however distant he or she
may reside from the physicians making the
treatment of such affections a specially. The
peculiarities of this scientific system of prac-
lice are fully explained in the Appendix of
''The Peoples Common Sense Medical Advi-
'cr, "a book of over nine hundred large pa
yes, which is so popular as to have reached I
'ale of almost one hundred thousand copies |
within few months of its first pubcation.-l
I is sent (post- paid by the Author to any ad-
iress, on receipt of one dollar and fifty cents |
Address, r. V, Pierce. NJ. D., Worlds Dis
,ensaTy, Buffalo, N. y.