The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-05-31

that her case was durable by DR..
Pierce's treatment.
A GENEROUS AND GENUINE
OFFER.
Women who are sick can consult DR..
Pierce by letter absolutely without fee
or cost. This offer is as generous as it
is genuine. DR.. Pierce is chief con-
sulting physician to the Invalids Hotel
and Surgical Institute, Buffalo, N. Y.
For more than thirty years he has
made a speciality of the treatment and
cure Of diseases peculiar to women. He
has surrounded himself with n staff of
nearly a score of medical counselors,
every man a graduated physician,
every man a specialist, each man par
ticularly able in the treatment of some
special form of disease. All this med
ical skill and ability is offered free to
those who write. You can't get such
skill in country towns. If you get it in
cities, it costs large fees. 1t is offered
by Dr. Pierce without cost. This meth
cd avoids the questions which a modest
woman shrinks from answering, the
offensive examinations, the unpleasant
local treatments. State your case plain
| ly and simply, as you can do when
YOU know that your letter is a priv
ileged communication, held as strictly
private and sacredly confidential by DR..
Pierce, who will answer it promptly,
sending the answer in a plain envelope,
bearing no printing upon 1t. The pri-
vate character of this correspondence
/ with Doctor Pierce has been greatly
appreciated by women, who have been
| the recipients of the paternal as well
as professional advice given by him to
| each correspondent.
| Any one can offer free medical ad-
! vice. But only physician can give it.
| 1t is well to examine all such offers,
| whether made by man or woman, for
| the mark of genuneness, which is the
| claim to a physicians title and ability.
| Cunningly worded advertisements seek
! to cover up this lack of medical ability
| in various ways sometimes by playing
| upon a wOman's sympathy and advis-
! ing her to write to a woman" etc.
| The woman" doesn't claim medical
| knowledge. Yet she does claim medical
| practice. And to make the affair more
| complicated the law does not per-
nit medical practice without medical
| knowledge, certified to by some institu-
ton of medical learning in the form of
! q diploma. What are you going to
| make Of a man or woman who claims
to be committing an Illegal act prompt
| ly and severely punishable by law,
| claims ii openly and publicly, and yet
| who is not interfcred with by the law?
! There is only one thing possible to
make of such a claim--that it is utter
| ly false. Investigation is necessary for
self protection. Many sick people who
| have come for o. GlMcnt TO the insti-
tute presided over by De. Ii-rce, have
been amazed to find that every claim
made for Dr. Piercc's treatment was
more than substantiated. 1t would sur
prise many and crafty all, to see the
patients who ill the reception rooms
day after day, new faces taking the
place of those who are cured.
$25.0OOOO GIVEN AWAY.
In the past year DR.. Pierce has given
away copies of The Common Sense
Medical Adviser at an actual cost lex
elusive of postage), of twenty-five thou
sand dollars. This great work on med
icine and hygiene discusses the ques-
tions vital to every woman's happiness
in plain English and from a common
| sense view point. The book contains
zoos pages and more than 700 illustra-
tions, and Is sent absolutely free on
receipt of stamps to defray expense Of
mailing only. Send u one-cent stamps
for the edition in paper covers, or 81
stamps for the same book cloth-bound,
Address DR.. r. V. Pierce, Buffalo, N.