Democratic Sentinel, Volume 2, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 April 1878 — Signs. [ARTICLE]

Signs.

People who still adhere to the look-at-your-tongue-and-feel-of-your-pulee doctor sometimes express not a little curiosity in regard to Dr. R. V. Pierce's original method of distinguishing all forms of chronic disease without personal consultation. Some even suppose that he accomplishes this through clairvoyance, or some other species of professional jugglery. All this is utterly false. He claims to determine disease by the rational methods of science only. Says Oomley, in-his Biographical Encyclopedia of New York State, speaking of this distinguished physician: “He perceived that in each of the natural sciences the investigator proceeds according to a system, qf signs. The geologist in his cabinet accurately determines and describes the cleft of rock, which he has never seen, from the minute specimen on his table. And the chemist in his laboratory notes the constituents of the sun with the same precision that he analyzes a crystal of rock salt. The analogous system developed by Dr. Pieroe in Medical Science is worthy of his genius, and has made his name justly celebrated.” For a full explanation of this ingenious system of diagnosis, see the Peopled Common Sense Medical Adviser, sent, post-paid, to any address on receipt of one dollar and fifty cents. Address the author, R. V. Pierce, M. D., Buffalo, N. Y.