The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1877-02-24
WONpERs on m0DEWN NCIENCE.

WONDGHhS VI MODEhN SOlENCEs
The perfect accuracy with which scientists
are enabled to deduce the most minute particu-
lars In their several Departments, appears al
most miraculous II we view It In the light OF
the early ages. Take for example the electro
magnetic telegraph-the greatest invention of
the age. Is IL not a marvellous degree OF ac-
curacy which enables an operator 10 erdotly To-
cate fracture In submarine cable nearly
three thousand miles long7 Our venerable
"clerk Of the weather" has become so thor
oughly familiar with those most Maynard elo-
ments OF nature that he can accurately predict
their movements. lie can sit I'm Washington
and foretell what the weather will be to-mor-
row in Florida or New York, as well as II sew
eral hundred miles did not intervene between
him and the places named. And so In all de-
partmsnt5 OF natural science, what is required
IS the knowledge OF certain signs. From these
the scientists deduce accurate conclusions re-.
gardlees OF distance. A few fossils sent 10 the
expert geoiogiSt enable him to accurately de-
termine the rock formation from which they
were taken. He can describe IL to you as per.
fectly as II cleft OF IL were lying on his table,
SO also the chemist can determine the consti-
tuition OF the sun as accurately as II that lumi-
nary were not ninety-five million miles from
his laboratory. The sun sends certain signs
over the "inflnltude OF space" and the chem
list Classics them by passing them through the
substances could produce these solar signs. 30
also, In medical science, diseases have certain
unmlstaka6le signs, or symptoms, ana by rea-
son OF this fact DR.. Pierce, or the WORLDS Dis
peneary. has been enabled to originate and per-
fect system OF determining with the greatest
accuracy, the nature OF chronic diseases With
out seeing and personally examining his pa
TENTS. He has spared neither pains ner ex:
pense 70 associate with himself, as the Faculty
OF the worlds Dispensary, q large number OF
medical gentlemen OF rare attachments and
sklll-graduateS from some Of the most famous
Medical Colleges and Universities of both
Europe and America. BY aid OF DR.. Plerce's
system OF diagonisis, these physicians and sur
geons annually treat, with The most gratifying
success, many thousands OF invallds without
exer 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 SCI
ence to the practice of medicine. And 1t is to
the accuracy with which this system has en-
dowed them that they owe their almost world.
wide reputation for the skillful treatment OF
all lingering or chronic affections This system
OF practice and the marvellous success which
has been attained through 1t, demonstrates the
fact mat diseases display certain phenomena,
viii h being subjected TO scientific analysis or
SyHthesiS, furnish abundant and uumistake.
able data to guide the Judgment OF the skill
full practitioner Alright In determining the ma
ture or diseased conditions. The amplest re
sources for treating lingering or chronic uis-
eases, and the greatest skill, are thus placed
within the cesy reach Of every invalid however
distant he or she may reside from the physi.
oians making the treatment OF such affections
n speciality. The peculiartles OF this scientific
system Of practice are fully exclaimed in the
Appendix OF "The Peoples Common Ser sc
Medical Advlser-a book OF over niue hundred
large pages, Wnich Is so popular as to have
reached sale OF almost one hundred thousand
copies wthiH a few months OF its first publica.
ton. 1t is sent (post paid) by the Author to
any address on receiOt OF one dollar and fifty
cents. Address, Il. v. Pierce, NJ. D., Worlds
Dlspensary, Buffalo, N. Y.