been recently laid on our table. The high professional attainments
of its author,--Dr. R.V. PIERCE, of Buffalo, N.Y.,--and the advantages
derived by him from an extensive practice, should alone insure for his
work a cordial reception." Price $1.50, post-paid. Address, WORLD'S
DISPENSARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, Buffalo, N.Y.

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_From The Boston Daily Globe._

A CURE FOR MANY EVILS.

What can be accomplished by judicious enterprise, when backed up by
ability and professional skill, is shown by the magnificent buildings of
the World's Dispensary and the Invalids' Hotel and Surgical Institute,
at Buffalo. While models of architectural beauty and completeness, their
real worth and usefulness consist rather in the humanitarian objects
they are made to serve. They stand superior to all institutions of their
kind, not only in material proportions but as well in the medical
knowledge and practical experience of those connected with them. In each
department are those and those only who by natural bent and training are
specially adapted to combating their particular class of "the ills which
flesh is heir to."

VOCABULARY

OF THE

COMMON SENSE MEDICAL ADVISER,

_GIVING EACH TECHNICAL WORD EMPLOYED, REFERRING TO ITS IMAGES/ADVISE
WHEN POSSIBLE, AND IN CASE THE WORD WILL NOT PERMIT OF A SHORT
DEFINITION, REFERRING TO THE PAGE WHERE A FULL DESCRIPTION OF ITS
MEANING MAY BE FOUND._

A

ABDOMEN. The part of the body between the diaphragm and pelvis,
containing the stomach, intestines, etc. The belly.

ABDOMINAL. Belonging to the Abdomen.

ABORTION. Expulsion of the foetus before the seventh month of pregnancy.

ABSORPTION. The function of taking up substances from within or without
the body.

ACETABULUM. The bone socket which receives the head of the thigh bone.

ACNE. Pimples upon the face, more common at the age of puberty.

ADIPOSE TISSUE. A thin membrane composed of cells which contain fat.

ADVENTITIOUS. Acquired.

ALBUMEN IN URINE in chemical composition resembles the white of an egg,
and is detected by the application of heat, nitric acid, etc.

ALBUMINOID. Of the nature of albumen.

ALBUMINURIA. A condition or disease in which the urine contains albumen.
(See above.)

ALIMENTARY CANAL. The canal extending from the mouth to the anus,
through which the food passes.

ALLOPATHY. Allopathic school. Defined on page 293.

ALTERATIVE. A medicine which gra