tients, at
a cost of over half a million dollars.

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A MAN OF THE TIME.

Speaking of Dr. R.V. PIERCE, the _Buffalo_ (N.Y.) _Commercial_ says: "He
came here an unknown man, almost friendless, with no capital except his
own manhood, which, however, included plenty of brains and pluck,
indomitable perseverance, and inborn uprightness, capital enough for any
man in this progressive country, if only he has good health and habits
as well. He had all these great natural advantages, and one thing more,
an excellent education. He had studied medicine and been regularly
licensed to practice as a physician. But he was still a student, fond of
investigation and experiment. He discovered, or invented, important
remedial agencies or compounds. Not choosing to wait wearily for the
sick and suffering to find out (without any body to tell them) that he
could do them good, he advertised his medicines and invited the whole
profession of every school, to examine and pronounce judgment on his
formulas. He advertised liberally, profusely, but with extraordinary
shrewdness, and with a method which is in itself a lesson to all who
seek business by that perfectly legitimate means. His success has been
something marvelous--so great, indeed, that it must be due to intrinsic
merit in the articles he sells, more even than to his unparalleled skill
in the use of printer's ink. The present writer once asked a
distinguished dispensing druggist to explain the secret of the almost
universal demand for Dr. PIERCE'S medicines. He said they were in fact
genuine medicines--such compounds as every good physician would
prescribe for the diseases which they were advertised to cure. Of
course, they cost less than any druggist would charge for the same
article, supplied on a physician's prescription, and, besides, there was
the doctor's fee saved. Moreover, buying the drugs in such enormous
quantities, having perfect apparatus for purifying and compounding the
mixture, he could not only get better articles in the first place, but
present the medicine in better form and cheaper than the same mixture
could possibly be obtained from any other source.

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_Extracts from Biographical Sketches of New York Senators._

At the age of eighteen, he (Dr. PIERCE) entered a medical school, and
proved a devoted student, graduating at twenty-three with the highest
honors. A simple know