Daily national Democrat., 1858-11-12
A PRACTICAL TREATISE on vENEREAL,
Dr. q ~. TOxEEa, Sacramento.

There are no maladies to which the human family is
liable OF deeper importance either in medical or
moral point Of lew, than those arising from impure
sexual intercourse.
AS medical men, it is our business to look at dis
ease merely it affects life and hedth and our eff
forts directed, not to the reformation OF mans VI
cious propensities, but to the mitigation of his bodily
su1erings. 1t is in this abstract sense we write of
Veneredt Agect5OnS And it in this sense that the
Doctor should address himself to their study. Ii his
feelings are allowed to influence his professional pur
suits, his qualifications will necessarily be limied to
those subjects that most agreeable to his tastes
To become enlighted practitioner it is essential
that he should be liberal and ardent one; and affec
tions in their nature repusve to delicate sensbtes,
be regarded in other light than as morbid pheno
mena af the LIVING BODY.
The whole business of the medical art when we
take low view Of it and regard it only 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 infrmity, Struck NY dis
ease the attractive parts of mans natIre are couded
over his pride is humbled; his intellect lie disturbed
his whole character, in word, is transformed. Too
often alas is sickness the consequence of his fol-
ly self-indulgence, the qualification of appetites, the
exhausng toll of avarce the feverish ebors for hu-
man applause, all produce their banefu effects HpOn
the Constitution. But to the medical attendant, the
moral aspects not to have any influence upon his
skill or his cares.
! 1.-THE best, human nature is but weak This is the
first truth for a medical to learn and in what
ever way this weakness is exhibited, the phanthropic
heart will feel that it is pleasure well as duty,
thev appear. This is the higher and nober view of
medical science. 1t devoes itself to the mitigation of
pau, the abatement of disease the restoration to
health In doing this, its minister must be the spec
tator of much that is disagreeabe. But he is reward
ed by the lofty satisfaction of feeling that athor gh
personal comfort is sacrificed and sympathy is often
painfully excited, yet it is through such road that
Benevolence has the widest scope and with the
richest return for its abors
OF all the affections that aflct man, there is no
one more terrible in its consequences than SYPHILIS
nra 30 To nr1A GrgA
frghtfu frequently its ravages in his consttu
tion, ending occasionally IN destruction yet it is
disease of deeper interest," and more to be lamented
when transmitted to offspring Children often come
into the world with the disease hideously manifested
to the eye covered with botches and sores with
wrinkled faces, having the appearance of old aga ;
and 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 as practicable, to
Eradicate Sg1hitiS from the World Would it not
seem that disease prevalent and direful, ought
to excite the deepest interest among the medical men,
both respects its true pathology and its treatment
What excuse he offer for his deficiency, who calls
himself a surgeon and yet does not even recognize
the disease when he it, and ignorant of the best
means OF checking it and preventing any future evil
consequences Is it enough for him say to the i'm
agnation the disease is oathsom one that il is
disreputabe one to have, and disgusting one to
treat? Such an excuse may, probably, satisfy him
who has better, but will not satisfy scieLce nor
philanthropy.
Whoever undertakes the medical profession with n
true spirit will never rest contented with knowing
only limited part of it, There is no subject that he
thinks unworthy of investigation and study He can
not be satisfied with a smattering knowledge of what
he Is bound to understand we'll He feels resting upon
him a double oblgation-one, the duty he owes to the
public, to whom he announces that he is a qualified
member of noble profession the other the duty he
owes to himself, to make and maintain reputation
for aainments and skill. There some practition-
ers, indeed there many 1cb0 ignorant ofUeR-
eredt diseases, because they fancy it is not respeca
bic to treat tn em.0f 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 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 respectdbiLity 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 particular channel, that his busi-
ness will be inclined to class of actions rather
than another but this is not because he regards some
| as beneath or unworthy his notice.
@. II. T0ZER, NJ D.