Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-06-07

lookin' at panorama, to see them
nagurs on the plantation and the ships
upon the seas, and the trains upon the
world, SO it isl
1t is only by such computations as
these that we are able to realize that
sit is getting to be
A POOR MANS WORLD"
a world in which the very Injuries of
life are practically delivered at the door
of the workman's cottage, by million
aire servants.
To-day, knowledge knocks at every
cottage door. The Chatauqua system
of education by correspondence has
placed the educational ability of the
noted professors of learning at the SER
vice of those who live in remote local
tiles far from college and university.
The natural tendency of this CORE
spondence method of teaching has been
to strip away all the useless growths
which have attached themselves to
learning, like fungi to tree. 1t is in
the application of correspondence
method to medical treatment that this
result is most marked. All the old med
zeal hocus pocus is cast aside and medi-
cal treatment comes down to plain
facts and simple necessities. 1t is no
wonder that that class of practitioners
whose hold upon popular esteem de-
rends so much upon the mysteries of
the craft. sheer at the idea of being
scured by correspondence"
Yet that is only crude way of
stating the fact that men and women
are "doctored" by physicians, as they
are taught by professors at distance.
A REMARKABLE ILLUSTRATION
of the practicability of this method of
treatment is found in the practice of
Doctor r. V. Pierce. The Doctor is
well known throughout the country as
a specialist, and as the chief consulting
physician of the Invalids' Hotel and
Surgical Institute of Buffalo. N. Y. He
has gathered about him distinguished
staff of physicians, each of whom is a
specialist in some class of diseases. one
having as his speciality diseases of the
stomach, another diseases of the lungs
and so on In complicated cases the
combined experience and knowledge of
three or four of this group of skilled
specialists are brought to bear upon the
physical problems presented.
From all over the country sick people
come to Buffalo to be treated at DR..
Pierce'S institute. But they are only
small percentage of the sick people
treated by DR.. Pierce. In over thirty
years OF practice he has treated more
than half million cases, and the larger
part of them by correspondence. The
success of this method as employed by
DR.. Pierce is shown by the fact that
of the half million and more patients
n1nety-eight per cent. have been abSo-
lutely and altogether cured. The great
fact to be considered in relation to this
correspondence method of treatment is
that it brings the advice of specialist
to the sick and suffering, no matter
who they may be or where they may
reside. But the most remarkable feat
ure of the method of DIR. Pierce is, that
he actually gives free medical advice
by correspondence.
And the new method of correspond
ence is just as successful in medical
treatment as in literary teaching, in
breaking down the old fungus growths
of practice
WOMEN ARE GRATEFUL.
Take as one example, which has
brought thousands of letters of thanks
from grateIul Women-the TACT that DR..
Pierces treatment by correspondence
does away with the unpleasant ques-
tionings, indicate examinations and
offensive local treatments to which
women suffering from diseases peculiar
to their sex have heretofore been sub
jected by local practitioners. The sue
cess of this method as practiced by a
skillful, scientific man proves how I'M
necessary it generally is to subject
woman to treatment so repulsive to her
sense of modesty.
The success OF DR.. Pierce is due to
specialism; the constant study OF one
class of disease, and the daily -reas-
ment Of them for more than thirty
years. The medical specialist begins
where every other doctor begins with
the studies which are the foundation of
medical knowledge.
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