Daily national Democrat., 1858-11-24
A PRACTICAL TREATISE ON vENEREAL,
DIR. G. Ii. TOzEIs. 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 medical men, it is our business to look at dis
ease merely it affects life and hedit and our ef
forts are directed not to the reformation of mans vi
cious propenstes but to the mitigation of his bodily
suferirgs 1t Is in this abstract write OF
VeneredL affections. And it is in this 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 enlghted practitioners it is as essential
that he should be liberal and ardent one and aIec
tions in their nature repusive to delicate sensibties,
be regarded in other light than as morbid phenO
mena af the LIVING BODY.
The whole business Of the medical art, when
take low view of it and regard it only as labor, is
disagreesbe 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@re 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-
y; indulgence the gratdcati ton of appettes, the
eXhaustng toll of avarce the feyerish cbors for hu
man applause, all produce their banefu effects upon
the Constitution. But to the medical attendant, the
moral aspects 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
way this weakness is exhibited the philanthropc
heart will feel that it is pleasure well as duty,
to relieve bodily niirmities, whenever and however
thew appear. This is the higher and nObler view of
medical science. 1t devotes itselfto the mitigation of
paul. the abatement of disease, the restoration to
healh. In doing this, its minister must be the spec
of much that is disagreeable But he reward
ed by the lofty satisfacto of feeling that athor 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 Gbors
OF all the affections that afllict man. there is no
one more terrible IN It's consequences than SYPHILIS.
Dreadful as it is to the person who fist contracts it,
frightful as frequently are its rayages in his constu-
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 botches and sores : with
wrinllled faces, having the appearance Of old aga
and 1t is probable that every particle of the living
ganism is equally tainted with the poison. When such
a condition exists it 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 one way to stay the devastating march of those
fearful fatal affections, is, far practicable to
Eradicate SypItittS from. the World Would it not
that disease prevalent and so dfreful, ough
to excite the deepest 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 ignorant of the best
means ol checking it and preventing any future evil
consequences Is II enough for him to say to the inn
aginatiOn the disease is lOathsom one that il is
treatY Such excuse may, probably, satisfy him
who has BETTER but it will not satisfy sceL ce nor
philanthropy.
Whoever undertakes the medic Il profession with a
true spirit, will rest contented with knowing
only limited part of it, There is subject that he
thinks unworthy of investigation and study. lie can
not be satisfied with smattering knowledge of what
he is bound to understand WELL lie feels resting upon
him double obllgation-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 reputation
for attanments and skill. There some practiton-
ers, indeed there are many aoi0 are ignorant 0Uen-
eredt diseases because they fancy it is not respecta
bic to treat tl em-Of all such persons it may be as
serted as beyond dispute, that their ignorance is
confined to these diseases atone 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 Fespectd6ik1g
diseases All maladies alike fit subjects for his
care and rehecton and the only distinction that he
acknowledges, is that which arises from their greater
or less gravity. Circumstances may, indeed, direc
his practice in particular channel that his bus
ness will be inclined to class Of Affections rathe
than another; but this is not because he regards som
as beneath or unworthy his notice.
G. II. T0ZER, NJ. D.