Daily national Democrat., 1858-11-09
A PRACTICAL TREATISE ON yESEREAL,
Dr. a. a. TOxHEs, 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 IN, dical men, it is our business to look at dis
ease merely it affects tite md hedtH; and our ef
forts directed not to the reformation of mans vi
cious propensities but to the mitigation of his bodily
sufferngs. 1t is in this abstract sense we write OF
TeReredL Af6cti0pS And it is in this sense that the
Doctor should address himself to their study. II his
feelings ara allowed to influence his professional pur
suits, his qualifications will necessarily be limi ed to
those subjects that most agreeable to his tastes
70 become enlghted practitioner, it is as essential
that he should be liberal and ardent one and afec
tons in their nature repusive to delicate sem Utilities,
be regarded in no other light than as morbid phenu
mena af the LIVING BODY.
The whole business of the medical art, when we
take low view of and regard it only as labor, is
dsagreeabe one. 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 infrmity, Struck ny dis
ease the attractive parts of mans natre are clouded
over his pride is humbed; his intellect lie disturbed
his whole character, in word, is transformed. Too
often alas is sickness the consequence of his fol
ly indulgence, the qualification of appees, The
eXhaustng toll of avarce. the feversh lebors 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.
title best, human nature is but weak This is the
first truth for medical man to learn; and in what
ever way this weakness is exhibited, the phlanthropc
heart will feel that is pleasure well as duty,
to relieve bodily ntrmltleS whenever and however
thew appear This is the higher and nobler view of
medical science 1t devotes tselfto the mitigation of
pau, the abatement of disease, the restoration to
health In doing this, its minister must be the spec
of much that disagreeabe But he is reward
ed by the lofty satsfactio of feeling that althoV gh
personal comfort is sacrificed and sympathy is often
painfully excited yet it is through such road that
Benevoence has the widest scope and meets with the
richest return for its labors.
OF all the affections that afllict man, there is no
one more terrible in its consequences than SYPHILIS
nj ia IN he Tho
frightful frequently its ravages in his cOnstu-
ton, ending occasionally an destruction yet it is a
disease of deeper interest, and more to be amented
when transmitted to offspring. Children often
into the world with the disease hideousy manifested
to the eye covered with blotches and sores with
wrinkled faces, having the appearance of old age
and it is probable that every particle of the living
ganism is equally tainted with the poison. When such
condition exists, it cannot be doubted that life will
too frequently be short and full Of pain.
SCROFULA, CONSUMPTION, and other diseases that are
sometimes hereditary, in many cases, its fruit
and way to stay the devastating march of those
fearful fatal affections, is, far practicable, to
Erddtcdte SyphttiS from the World Would it not
that disease so prevalent and direul, ought
to excite the eepest interest among the medical men,
both respects its true pathology and its treatme
What he offer for his deficiency, who calls
himself surgeon, and yet does not even recognize
the disease when he it, and IS ignorant of the best
means o checking it and preventing any future evil
consequences? Is it enough for him to say the i'm
agination the disease is oathsom one that it is
disreputabe one to have, and disgusting one to
treat? Such an excuse may, probably, satisfy him
who has no better, but it will not satisfy sceLce nor
philanthropy.
Whoever undertakes the medic Il profession with a
true spirit, will rest rontented with knowing
only limited part of it. There subject that he
thinks unworthy of investigation and study. He can
not be satisfied with smattering knowledge of what
he is bound to understand we'll He feels resting upon
him double oblgation-one, the duty he to the
public, to whom he announces that he is qualified
member of noble profession the other, the duty he
owes to himself, to make and maintain a reputation
for attachments and skill. There practition-
ers indeed there many 2ctO are ignorant OF rem
eredt diseases because they fancy not respecta-
bic to treat tlemOf all such persons it may be
serted beyond dispute that their ignorance is not
confined to these diseases alone; they will be found
deficient in all other points, and not properly
qualified for the responsibilities they have assumed.
Whoever has just appreciation of the medical art,
will not know any difference in the FespectdbHy Of
diseases. All maladies alike fit subjects for his
care 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 apartcular channel, that his busi-
ness Will be inclined to class of Affections, rather
than another but this is not because he regards
as beneath or unworthy his notice.
c. II. TOZER, NJ. D.