Daily national Democrat., 1858-12-25
A PRACTICAL TREATISE ON vENEREAL,
mr. q. III. TOZER. sacramento.

There are no maladies to which the human family is
liable of deeper importance, either in medical or
moral point of view, than those arising from impure
sexual intercourse.
AS me dcal men IL Is our business to look at dis
ease merely as it affects life and hedith; and our eff
forts are directed not to the reformation OF mans VI
cious propenstes, but to the mitigation of his bodily
sunerngs II is in this abstract sense we write OF
FenereW affections. And it is in this sense that the
Doctor should address himself to their study. II his
feelings allowed to influence his professional pur
suits, his qualifications will necessarily be limi ed to
those subjects that most agreeable to his tastes
TO become an enlghed practitioner, it is essential
that he should be liberal and ardent one; and aec-
tons in their nature repulsive to delicate sensbues,
be regarded in no other light than as morbid pheno-
mena af the LIVING BODY.
The whole business of the medical art when we
take low view Of il and regard it only as labor, is
dsagreeabe In any form disease is unpleasant
to look upon The sick chamber affords no pleasant
sights. The physician is made the witness both OF
physical pain and moral infrmty, Struck ny dis
ease, the attractive parts of mans nat@re couded
over; his pride is humbied; his intellect lie disturbed
his whole character, in a word is transformed. Too
often alas, is sickness the consequence of his own fol-
y; self-indulgence the qualification of appetites the
exhausting toll of avarce the feversh labors for hu
man applause all produce their baneful effects upon
the Constitution. But TO the medical attendant, the
moral aspects are not to have any influence upon his
skill or his cares.
Attn best, human nature is but weak. This is the
first truth for medical man to learn; and in what
way this weakness is exhibited, the philanthropc
heart will feel that II is pleasure well as duty
to relieve bodily infrmities, whenever and however
they appear. This is the higher and nobler view of
medical science. 1t devotes itself the mitigation Of
paiu, the abatement of disease, the restoration to
health In doing this, its minister must be the spec
ator of much that is disagreeable. But he is reward
ed by the lofty satsfactio Of feeling that althor gh
personal comfort is sacrificed and sympathy is often
painfully excited, yet it is through such road that
Benevolerce has the widest scope and meets with the
richest return for its labors
OF all the affections that afllict man, there is no
more terrible in its consequences than SYPHILIS.
Dreadful as il to the person who first contracts it,
rightfu frequently its ravaCes in his constitu-
ton, ending occasionally an destruction yet it is a
disease of deeper interest, and more to be lamened
when Transmitted to offspring Children often come
into the world with the disease hideousy manifested
to the eye covered with botches and sores with
wrinkled faces, having the appearance of old age
and ii is probable that every particle of the living
gansm is equally tainted with the poison When such
condition exists, II cannot be doubted that life will
too frequently be short and full of pain.
SCROFULA, CONSUMPTION, and other diseases that are
sometimes hereditary, are in many cases, its fruit
and one way to stay the devastating march of those
fearful fatal Affections is, far practicable to
Eradicate Sgphilis from the World Would it not
seem that disease so prevalent and so drefu, ought
to excite the deepest interest among the medical men
both respects its true pathology and its treatment
What excuse can he offer for his deficiency, who calls
himself surgeon, and yet does not recognize
the disease when he secs it, and ignorant the best
means OF checking it and preventing any future evil
consequences Is it enough for him to say to the i'm
agination the disease is loathsom that il is
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treat? Such an excuse may, probably, satisfy him
who has better, but it will not satisfy scie
philanthropy.
Whoever undertakes the medic Il profession with n
true spirit will never rest contented with knowing
only limited part of it. There is subject that he
thinks unworthy of Investigation and study He can
not be satisfied with smatterng knowledge of what
he is bound to understand well. He feels resting upon
him double Obllgation-one, the duty he owes to the
public, to whom he announces that he is n qualified
member of a noble profession the other the duty he
tp 10 boa afv,ta
for attainments and skill There are some practition-
ers, indeed there many, 1cO are ignorant 0fUen
eFedt diseases, because they fancy it is not respeca
bic to treat them.-0f all such persons it may be as
serted as beyond dispute, that their ignorance
confined to these diseases alone; they will be found
deficient in all other points, and are not properly
qualified for the responsibilities they have assumed
Whoever has just appreciation of the medical art
will not know any difference in the respectdbiLty of
diseases. All maadies alike fit subjects for his
and reflection; and the only distinction that he
acknowledges, is that which arises from their greater
or less gravity. Circumstances may indeed, direct
his practice in particular channel, that his bus-
will be inclined to class of Affections rather
than another but this is not because he regards
as beneath or unworthy his notice.
G. II. ToZER, MD.