The Russellville Democrat., 1877-04-05
Wonders of Modern Science.

The perfect accuracy with which sci entists are enabled to deduce the most t'minate- e-paitieuiars in. 'tifv:r several de- partments, appears almost miraculous if we view it in the light of the early ages. Take for example the electro magnetic telegraph the greatest in- yention of the age. Is it hot marvel ous degree of accuracy which enables an operator to exactly locate fracture in a submarine cable nearly three thousand miles long? Our venerable s'clerk of the weather" has become so 1 thoroughly familiar with those most wayward clements of nature that he can accurately predict their movements. He can sit in Washington and foretell what the weather will be tomorrow ill Florida or New York, as well as if sew eral hundred miles did not intervene between him and the places named. And soin all departments of modern science, what is required is the knowl- edge of certain signs. From these the scientists deduce accurate conclusions regardless of distance. A few fossils sent to the expert geologist enable him to accurately determine the rock-for- nation from which they were taken. He can describe it to you as perfectly as if cleft of it were lying on his | table. So also the chemist can deter mine the constitution of the sun as ac- curately as if that luminary were not ninety-flve million miles from his lab oratory. The sun sends certain signs over the ''infnitude of space" and the chemist classifies them by passing them through the spcctroscope. Only the presence of certain substances could l produce these solar signs. So also, in medical science, diseases have certain unmistakable sign, or symptoms, and by reason of this fact, Dr. Pierce, of the Worlds Dispensary, has been ena- bled to originate and perfect a.system a of determining, with the greatest ae- curacy, the nature of chronic diseases without seeing and personally exam ming his patients. He has spared nei- ther pains nor expense to associate wi.h himself, as the Faculty oi the Worlds Dispensary, large number of medical gentlemen of rare attachments and skill graduates from some of the most famous Medical Colleges and Universi- ties of both Europe and America. By aid of Dr. 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- nizing diseases without a personal ex- animation 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 to the practice of medicine. And it is to the accuracy with which this system has endowed them that they owe their almost worldwide rep utation for the skillful treatment of all lingering or chronic affections This i system of practice and the marvellous success which has been attained through | it, demonstrate the fact that diseases display certain phenomena, which be- ing subjected to scientific analysis or syn.hesis, furnish abundant and un- mistakabic data to guide the judgment of the skillful practitioner aright in determining the nature of diseased con ditions. The amplest resources for treating lingering or chronic diseases, and the greatest skill, are thus placed within the easy reach of every invalid, however distant he or she may reside from the physicians making the treat ment of such affections specially The peculiartics of this scientific sys- tenn of practice are fully explained in the Appendix of "The Peoples Com mon 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 publication. If is sent (post-paid) by the Author to any address, on receipt
 of one dollar and fifty cents. Address
 k. V. Pierce, NJ. D., Worlds Dispensa
 ry, Buffalo, N. Y.