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The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English

by Ray Vaughn Pierce

or, Medicine Simplified, 54th ed., One Million, Six Hundred and Fifty Thousand

About 26 h 21 min of reading895 chapters

The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English is the home medical book of Ray Vaughn Pierce of Buffalo, New York, proprietor of the Invalids' Hotel and Surgical Institute and of Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery, here in the fifty-fourth edition, whose title page claims a printing of one million six hundred and fifty thousand copies. The first parts explain physiology and hygiene, including the temperaments, marriage and reproduction; later parts describe diseases of every organ and their treatment, the sanatorium and its staff, and testimonials from the press. The book is a monument of American patent-medicine publishing, informative and self-promoting on the same page. The full text is available to read online in your browser on Vinteuil, and the first chapter is free.

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