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THE ART OF PROLONGING LIFE. 
Moreover, buying the drugs in such enormous quantities, 
having perfect apparatus for pui fying 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 eculd possibly be obtained from anv 
• other source. J 
It may be thought that all this having reference to Dr. 
Pierce s private business has no point whatever when con¬ 
sidered in connection with the proper qualifications of a 
candidate for the Senate. Perhaps. But it is the fashion 
now, and will be for a fortnight more, with sundry journals 
to make sneering allusions to this very matter. After that 
brief period, they will be quite ready to go on doing his work 
as before, and as always before, to speak of him as a great 
public benefactor. But Dr. Pierce is something more than 
a successful manufacturer of patent medicines. He is one of 
our most prominent, energetic, and enterprising citizens in 
many other branches of business. No man has furnished 
more employment to our mechanics and laborers for the 
last several years. He builds well and he pays well. If his 
patent medicine business should now be suddenly wiped out 
of existence, lie would still, by reason of his other interests in 
Buffalo, be deemed one of our most prominent and successful 
business men. 
THE ART OF PROLONGING LiIFJE _People 
genei ally desire long life and good health. Sickness and 
premature death are almost always due to violations of the 
laws that govern our physical being, and of which the masses 
are ignorant. If men knew better they would do better: but 
how can they avoid an evil that they know not of? While 
efforts are made through the public schools to give each child 
a so-called common English education, vet the children are 
permitted to grow up and enter upon the responsible duties 
of active life, profoundly ignorant of the structure of their 
own bodies, and the laws of physical being upon which their 
an ! 1 depend. They are sent to school and crammed 
with arithmetic, grammar, and geography, by teachers who, 
m many instances, have never studied physiologv and 
hygiene. They are taught to locate the mountains and trace 
.he rivers of foreign countries, but are never taught to locate 
the vital organs and glands of their own bodies, or trace the 
veins, arteries, and nerves, in their various ramifications. 
They are instructed in the flow of the tides, the course of the 
ocean currents, and the philosophy of winds and storms; but 
they have no correct conception of the relative effects upon 
their health of breathing pure or impure air, nor has their 
attention ever been called to the importance of keeping their 
bodies clean and healthy by regular bathing. The crimin¬ 
ality of such neglect in teaching becomes apparent when we 
consider that the masses, ignorantly violating the laws of 
health, bring upon themselves sickness, suffering, and death, 
that might otherwise be avoided. In this condition of things 
we welcome into being any work that is calculated to impart 
to the masses a knowledge of the structure of their own 
bodies, the laws of health, and the importance of observing: 
those laws. We find Dr, Pierce’s Common Sense Medical 
Adviser to be just such a work. It is physiological and 
pathological, and the major part of it should be converted 
into a text-book for the use of common schools. Its careful 
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