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Dr. Pierce was the author of

The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser

. The book was

first published in 1895 and continued to be printed for many years with sales exceeding

one and one half million copies.

In the October 10, 1895 edition of the

Ann Arbor Register

Dr. Pierce‘s Favorite

Prescription was reviewed with

―The two most critical times in a woman‘s life are the

times which makes the girl a woman, and the woman a mother. At these times, Dr.

Pierce‘s Favorite Prescription is of incalculable value. It strengthens and invigorates the

organs distinctly feminine, promotes regularity of the functions, allays irritation and

inflammation, checks unnatural, exhausting drains, and puts the whole delicate

organism into perfect condition. Almost all the ills of womankind are traceable to some

form of what is known as 'female complaint.' There are not three cases in a hundred of

woman‘s peculiar diseases that Dr. Pierce‘s Favorite Prescription will not cure.‖