Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 April 1875 — A $4.00 Book for $1.50. [ARTICLE]

A $4.00 Book for $1.50.

The People’s Common Sense Medical Adviser, in plain English, or Medicine Simplified; by R, V, Pierce, M. D., Ceunselor-in-Chief of the Board® of Physicians and Surgeons at the World’s Dispensary, Buffalo, N. Y. The above Work—a book of about nine hundred large pages, profusely illustrated with Wood Engravings and colored plates, and well and strongly bound—will be sent, postpaid, to any address for One Dollar and Fifty Cents—making it the cheapest book EVER OFFERED TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE. Other books treating of domestic medicines of like size and style of binding, and not nearly as well illustrated, with no colored plates, and some of them containing no prescriptions and making known no means of self-cure for the diseases which they discuss, sell for from three dollars and a half to five dollars. Were Dr. Pierce’s Work not published by the author, printed and bound with his own machinery, and were it sold through agents, as other like works are, the price of it would have to be not less than four hollars. For when the publisher pays the author a fair price for his production, then adds a profit to his investment large enough to satisfy himself and compensate him, not only for his labor, but also fbr the risk of pecuniary loss which he assumes in taking the chances of the enterprise proving a success, and whenthe State, county and canvassing 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 Medical Adviser, on the contrary, is placed within the pecuniary reach of all classes by the author, who adopts the plan of the Grangers, dispensing with middle-men and giving the: benefit of their profits to-the people, offering 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 it through the mails, the author advertises that money addressed to him at Buffalo, N. Y., and inclosed in registered letters, may be at his risk of loss. The author’s large correspondence with the people upon medical matters (which, we are credibly informed, frequently exceeds 300 letters a day and requires several trained and skillful medical assistants and short-hand reporters to enable him to eatertain and answer them), as well as his large dfiily* dealings with disease at the World’s Dispensary, appear to have peculiarly fitted him fbr writing the Work, by rendering him very familiar with the everyday medical needs of the people. He endeavors, in this work, to answer all the numerous questions relating to health and disease that hare been addressed to him by the people from all parts of the land, and hence it contains important information for the young and old, male and female, single and married, nowhere else 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, etc., all of which are treated in an original and interesting manner. It is a compendium of Anatomical, Physiological and Medical Science, and embodies the latest discoveries in each department. Glen Flora Springs are located at Waukegan, 18. Cures Dyspepsia, Bright’s Disease and Kidney Complaints. Circulars free. 4 .• J > • " 1 • ••

Herbaubtic Remedies.— ln former days, if a member of the household became indisposed, the family-head, under instructions from the gray-naired dame, went to the forest or the field to gather herbs or berries, from which were quickly made invigorating extracts, which ere many days brought the patient safely around, and saw the family gathering once more without a missing member. How is it now? The slightest indisposition brings the 44 family physician,” with his handsome carriage. He feels the pulse, examines the tongue, looks very grave,writes a few lines of hieroglyphics, charges a big fee, and leaves, only to return the next day and find his patient mercurialized sufficiently to be really sick. A week or two of attendance follows, and therein lies the secret of “wealthy physicians.” Compare the physique of the present age with the past and the story is complete. Reader, discard chemicals and try herbs. If you are ill, try the great herbalistic remedy, Dr. J . Walker’s V inegar Bitters. 30 Davis’ Pain Killer.— This article needs no comments from us, but the real worth of 60 valuable a compound compels us to give publicity to it. The Pain Killer we keep constantly at hand, and have done so for a number of years, and have administered it for ails of all descriptions, both external and internal, and have ever found it to be the best remedy extant. We well recollect its first introduction for public patronage; it was the* sold in a few shops in the city; look at it now —the world are its patrons. Sold everywhere. Dr. A. Johnson, one of the most successful practitioners of his time, invented what is now- called Johnson's Anodyne Liniment. The great success of this article in the cure of Bronchitis and all diseases of throat and lungs will make the name of Johnson not less favorably, if less widely, known, than that of Louis Napoleon. Electricity is Life.— All nervous disorders, chronic diseases of the chest, head, liver, stomach, kidneys and blood, aches and pains, nervous and general debility, etc., quickly cured after drugs fail by wearing Volta’s Electro Belts and Bands. Valuable book free, by Volta Belt Co., Cincinnati, Ohio. The public are hereby assured, through the columns of this paper, that Parsons' Purgative Pills contain no injurious principle, but that they may be administered to children and the most weak and shattered constitutions, in small doses, with great certainty of successPrussing’s celebrated White Wine Vinegar has been before the public twenty-seven years. Get the best. The best Elastic Truss is Pomeroy’s, 741 Broadway, N. Y. Write for it. Burnett’s Cocoaine is the best and cheapest hair dressing in the world, - The Northwestern Horse-Nail Co.’s 44 Finished” Nail is the best in the world.