Daily national Democrat., 1858-12-12
A PRACTICAL TREATISE ON vENEREAL,
Dr. G. III. TOzETg, sacramento

Dr. G. HI. TOEEH. Sacramento.
There are no malades 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 medical men, it is our business TO look at dis
ease merely as it affects Lfe and hedltb, and ef
forts directed, not to the reformation of mans VI
cious propenses, but to the mitigation of his bodily
sulerings 1t is in this abstract sense we write o.
TeneredL AfectjoaS And it is in this sense hG the
Doctor should address himself to their study. l. hs
feelings allowed to influence his professional pur
suits, his qualifications will necessarily De limited 10
those subjects that most agreeable TO his tastes
To become enlghted practitioner, it is essential
that he should be liberal and ardent one; and a1ec
tons in their nature repulsve to delicate sensbities
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
dsagreeRble 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 iniirmity, Struck ny dis
ease the attractive parts of mans nat=re clouded
over his pride is humbed; 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-indugence the qualification of appetites the
exhausting toll of avarce the feverish sbors for hu
man applause all produce their baneful effects upon
the Constitutions. But to the medical attendant the
moral aspects are not to have any influence upon his
skill or his cares.
At the 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 phlanthropic
i
| to relieve bodily infrmties, whenever and however
thev appear. This is the higher and nobler view of
medical science. 1t dcvotes itself to the mitigation of
paiu, the abatement of disease, the restoration to
health. In doing this, its minister must be the spec
tator of much that is dsagreeabe. But he is reward
ed by the lofty satisfaction feeling that althor oh
personal comfort is sacrificed and sympathy is often
painfully excited, yet it is through such road that
Benevolence has the widest scope and meets with the
richest return for its labors.
OF all the affections that ailict man, there is no
one more terrible in its consequences than SYPHILIS
Dreadful as it is to the person who first contracts it,
frghtful frequently its ravages in his const-
ton 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 hdeousy manifested
to the eye; covered with blotches and with
wrinked 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 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
Erdd{cdte Syptitis from the World Would it not
that disease prevalent and so direful ought
to excite the deepest interest among the medical men,
both respects its true pathology and its treatments
What excuse he offer for his deficiency who calls
himself surgeon, and yet does not even recognize
the disease when he sees it, and is ignorant of the best
means OF checking it and preventing any future evil
consequences Is it enough for him to say the i'm
agnation the disease is oathsom one that IL is a
treat? Such an excuse may, probably, satisfy him
who has no BETTER but it will not satisfy cicLce nor
philanthropy.
Whoever undertakes the medic Il profession with a
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 a smatering knowledge of what
he is bound to understand well. lie feels resting upon
him double oblgation-one the duty he owes 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 attanments and skill. There are some practon-
ers indeed there are many, acO are ignorant Of0en
eedt diseases because they fancy it is not respecta
bic to treat hem-Of all such persons it may be as
serted as 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 respectdbiIay of
diseases. All malades 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 bust
ness will be inclined to class Of alictions rather
than another but this is not because he regards some
as beneath or unworthy his notice.
C. II. T0ZER, NJ. D.