The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1877-03-15
Wonders of Modern Science,

The perfect accuracy with which scientists
are enabled to deduce 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-the greatest invention of
the age. Is it not marvellous degree of ac-
curacy which enables an operator to erdctiu
locate fracture in submarine cable nearly
three thousand miles long? Our venerable
clerk of the weather" has become SO thor
oughiy 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-nlor-
row in Florida or New York, a. 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
Il the knowledge of certain signs. From these
the scientists deduce accurate conclusions re-
gardless Of distance. A few fossils sent to the
expert geologist enable him to accurately de-
termne the rock formation from which they
were taken. He can describe it to you as per-
fectly as if cleft of it were living on his table
so also the chemist can determine the const-
tuition OF the sun as accurately as if that lumn-
airy we're not ninety five million miles from his
laboratory. The sun sends certain signs over
the inhnitude Of space" and the chemist
classifies 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
unimstakaDle signs. or symptoms, and by rea-
son of this fact, DR.. Pierce, Of the Worlds
DispensarS, 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, q large
number of medical gentlemen of rare attain
mcnts and skill-graduates from some of the
most famous medical colleges and universities
Of both Europe and America. By aid of i!r
Pierce'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-
n!2inS diseases without 4 personal examina-
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 SYM
tenn has endowed them that they ows their
almost world wide reputation Tor the sklilrul
treatment of all lingering or chronic affections.
lhis 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
analysis or synthesis, furnish abundant and
nnmistaksble data to guide the Judgment of
the sklllful practitioner Alright in determining
the nature of diseased conditions. The
amplest resources 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 specially. The peculiarities
OF this scientific system of practice are fully
explained in the appendix Of 1.-The 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 copies within a few
months of its first pullicotioD il Sant
(post-paid) by the author to any address, on
receipt of one dollar and fifty cents. Address,
i. V. Pierce. NJ. D., Worlds Dispensary,
Buffalo, New York.