Daily national Democrat., 1858-12-05
A PRACTICAL TREATISE on vENEREAL,
mr. C.u TOzEIs. Sacramento.

There are no maladies to which the human family is
liable of deeper importance, either in a 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 it affects life dnd hedth and our ef-
forts directed not to the reformation OF mans VI
cous propensities but to the mitigation OF his bodily
sufferings. 1t is in this abstract sense write OF
VeneredL affections. And it 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 limit ed to
those subjects that most agreeable to his tastes
To become enghted practitioner it is as essential
that he should be liberal and ardent one; and afec-
ons in their nature repulsye to delicate nsbities,
be regarded in other light than as morbid pheno-
mena af the LIVING BODY.
The whole business of the medical art when
take allow view Oft and regard it only as labor, is
disagreeable 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 nat.Te cOuded
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 own fol-
y; self-indugence, the qualification of appetites, The
exhaustng toll of avarice the feverish abors for hui
man applause, llproduce their banefu effects upon
the Constitution. But TO the medical attendant, the
moral aspects not to have any influence upon his
skill or his
AT the best human nature is but weak This is the
first truth for a medical man to learn and in what
way this weakness is exhibited, the phanthropic
heart will feel that it is pleasure well as duty,
to relieve bodily intrmities, whenever and however
they appear. This is the higher and nober view of
paiu, the abatement of disease, the restoration to
health In doing this, its minister must be the spec
ator of much that is disagreeabe. But he is reward
ed by the lofty satisfaction of feeling that altor gh
personal comfort is sacrificed and sympathy is often
painfully excited, yet it is through such road that
Beneyoence has the widest scope, and meets with the
richest return for its labors.
or all the affections that aflct man. there is no
one more terrible in its consequences than SYPHILIS.
Dreadful as 1t is to the person who f'st contracts it,
rightul as frequently are its raVages in his consttu
ton, ending occasionally IN destruction vet it is a
disease of deeper interest, and to be lamented
when transmitted to offspring Children often come
into the world with the disease hideousy manifested
to the eye covered with botches and sores with
wrnkled faces, having the appearance of old aga
and it is probable that every particle of the living
ganism is equally tainted with the poison. When such
condition exists IL 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 way to stay the devastating march of those
fearful fatal Affections is, far as practicable to
Eradicate SgphiLis from the World Would it not
seem that a disease prevalent and so direfu ought
to excite the deepest interest among the medical men
both respects its true pathology and its treatment
What he offer for his deficiency, who calls
himself a surgeon and yet does not even recognize
the disease when he it, and is ignorant of the best
means OF checking it and preventing any future evil
consequences Is it enough for him to say to the i'm
aginaton the disease is n loathsOm one that IL is a
treat? Such an excuse may, probably, satisfy him
who has no better, but it will not satisfy scieLce nor
philanthropy.
Whoever undertakes the medic Il profession with a
true spirit, will never rest conented 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 smattering knowledge of what
he is bound to understand well. He feels resting upon
him double obgation-one, the duty he owes to the
public, to whom he announces that he is u qualified
member of noble profession the other, the duty he
to himself, to make and maintain Il reputation
for attanments and skill. There practition-
ers, indeed there many aohO are ignorant Of pe-
eredt diseases because they fancy is not repecta-
bic to treat tnemOf all such persons it may be as
serted as beyond dispute, that their ignorance is
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 a just appreciation of the medical art,
will not know any difference in the reSpectd6HHy Of
diseases. All malades are 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 Affections, rather
than another but this is not because he regards
as beneath or unworthy his notice.
C. II. TOZER, NJ. D.