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Show A $1.00 Boolx For $1.50. The People's Common Sense Medical Med-ical Adviser, in plain English, or Medicino Simplified : By R. V. Pierce, M. D., couuselor-in-chief of the board of physicians and surgeons, at the World's Dispensary, Buffalo, X. Y. The above work a book of about 900 large pages, profusely illustrated il-lustrated with wood engravings and colored plates, and well and strongly bound will bo sent, post paid, to any address, for $1.50 making it the CHEAPEST B09K EVER OFFERED TO THE , American people. Other books treating treat-ing ofdomes'ic medicine, of like size and style of binding, and not nearly as well illustrated, with no colored plates, and somo of them containing no prescriptions and making known no means of self-cure for the diseases which they discuss, sell for from $3.50 to $o. Were Dr. Pierce'B work, not published by the author, printed and bound with his own machinery, and were it sold through agents, as other like works are, tho price of it would have to be not less than fol'k dollars. Eor when tho publisher pub-lisher pays the author a fair price for his production, then adds a to satisfy himself and compensate him, not only for his labor, but also for the risk of pecuniary loss which he assumes in taking the chances of the enterprise proving a success, and when the state, county and canvassing canvass-ing agent has each received his profit, they have added to the expense of a book, that originally cost about $1.25, so much that the people have to pay not" less than $4.00 for it. The People's Peo-ple's Medical Adviser, on the contrary, con-trary, is placed within the pecuniary reach ol all classes by the author, who adopts the plan of the Grangers, dispensing with middle men and giving giv-ing the benefit of their profits to the people, ofiering his book at a price little above actual cost of publication. That those desiring the book may run no risk of losing their money in "sending "send-ing it through the mails, the author advertises that money addressed to him at Buffalo, IS". Y., and inclosed in registered letters, may be at his risk of loss. The author's large correspondence cor-respondence with the people upon medical matters, which we are credibly cred-ibly informed, frequently exceeds three hundred letters a day, and requires re-quires several trained and skilful medical assistants and short hand reporters re-porters to enable him to entertain and answer them, as well aa his large daily dealings with disease at the World's Dispensary, appear to have peculiarly fitted him for writing the work, by rendering him very familiar with the everday medical needs of the people. He endeavors in this work to answer all the numerous questions relating to health and disease that have been addressed to him from all parts of the land, and hence it contains important import-ant information for the young and old, male and female, single or married, nowhere rise to be found. All the most prevalent diseases of both sexes are also plainly and fully considered and means of self-cure made known. Unlike other works on Domestic Medicine, it includes the subjects of Biology, Cerebral Physiology,Hygiene, Temperaments, Marriage, Reproduction, Repro-duction, etc., all of which are treated in an original and interesting manner. man-ner. It is a compendium of Anatomical Ana-tomical Physiological and Medical Science, and embodies the latest discoveries dis-coveries in each department. |