The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1877-04-07
wONDERs sF MODERN SCIENCE.

Inc perfect accuracy with when scientists
are enabled to deduce the most minute par
t~seulars in their several departments, appears
almost miraculous if we view it in the light
of the early ages. Take for example the
electromagnetic telegraph-the greatest in
Vention OF the age. L it not a marvellous
degree of accuracy which enables an oper-
ator to exactly locate q fracture in a SUBJ
marine cable nearly three thousand miles
long? Our venerable "clerk of the weather.
has become SO thoroughly familiar with those
most hayward elements of nature thathe can
accurately predict their movements. He
can sit in Washington and fortell what the
weather will be tomorrow in Florida or New
York, as well as il several hundred miles
did not intervene between him and the places
named. And so in all departments of mod.
edge of certain signs. From these the scien-
lists deduce accurate conclusions regardless
of distance. A few fossils sent to the expert
geologist enable him to accurately determine
the ro~ck.formation from which they were
TAKEN. He can describe tito Won as perfectly
as if a cleft of it were lying ON his table. So
also the chemist can determine the constitu-
ton of the sun as accurately as if that Iumin-
airy were not ninety-fve million miles from
his laboratory. The sun sends certain signs
over the infinite of space" and the chemist
Classics 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,
aad by reason of this fact. DR.. Pierce, of the
Worlds Dispensary, has been enabled to
originate and perfecta system of determining,
with the greatest accuracy, the nature of
chronic diseases without seeing and person.
ally examining his patients. He has spared
neither pains nor expense to associate with
himself, as the Faculty of the Worlds Dis
pensary, q large number of medical gentle
men of rare attainmenta and skill-graduates
from some of the most famous Medical Col
leges and Universities OF both Europe and
America. By aid of DIR. Pierce's system Of
diagnosis, these physicians and surgeons
annually treat, with the most gratifying sue
cess, many thousands of invalids without
ever seeing them in person. In recognizing
diseases without q personal examination Of
the patient they claim to possess no miracu-
lous powers. They attain their knowledge
Of the patients disease by the practical ap.
plication of well established principles of
modern science to the practice of medicine.
And ii 10 to the accuracy with which this
system has endowed them that they owe
their almost worldwide reputation for the
skiIlful treatment of all lingering or chronic
affections. This system of practice and the
marvellous success which has been attained
through it, demonstrate the fsct that diseases
display certain phenomena, which being
subjected to scientific analysis or synthesis,
furnish abundant and unnlistakabIe data to
guide the Judgment of the skiIiful practi-
toner 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 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 practice are fully explained in the
Appendix of aThe Peoples Common Sense
Medical Adviser,H-a book Of over nine
hundred large pages, which Is so popular as
to have reached . sale OF almost n hun
dred thousand copies within q few months of
its first publication. It is sent(postpaidl by
the author to any address, N receipt OF one
dollar and fifty cents. address, Z. v. Pierce,
d. D., Worlds Dispensary, Buffalo, N. Y.