ledge of the routine of practice as then in vogue,
was not enough. He sought new means of healing, and explored "schools"
of practice that were prohibited by his sect. He denounced errors in
the prevailing "schools" and accepted truths belonging to those
prohibited. Every one knows how such daring and destructive innovations
are regarded by the medical profession generally. Dr. PIERCE was no
exception to the rule. But he paid no attention to detraction, pursuing
his own way with that energy which proves now to be a most excellent
ally of his medical instincts.

The World's Dispensary is to-day the greatest institution of its kind in
the world. More than two hundred persons are employed, eighteen being
skillful physicians and surgeons, each devoting himself to a special
branch of the profession, all acting together when required, as a
council. The printing department of the Dispensary is larger than the
similar department of any paper outside of the _New York Herald._

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_From The New York Times._

WELL-MERITED SUCCESS.

The author of "The People's Medical Adviser" is well-known to the
American public as a physician of fine attainments, and his Family
Medicines are favorite remedies in thousands of our households. As a
counselor and friend, Dr. PIERCE is a cultured, courteous gentleman. He
has devoted all his energies to the alleviation of human suffering. With
this end in view and his whole heart in his labors, he has achieved
marked and merited success. There can be no real success without true
merit. That his success is _real_, is evidenced by the fact that his
reputation, as a man and physician, does not deteriorate; and the fact
that there is a steadily increasing demand for his medicines, proves
that they are not nostrums, but reliable remedies for disease. The
various departments of the World's Dispensary in which his Family
Medicines are compounded and his special prescriptions prepared, are
provided with all modern facilities.

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_The New York Tribune says:_

"The American mind is active. It has given us books of fiction for the
sentimentalist, learned books for the scholar and professional student,
but _few books for the people_. A book _for the people_ must relate to a
subject of universal interest. Such a subject is the physical man, and
such a book 'The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser,' a copy of which
has