Daily national Democrat., 1858-11-30
A PRACTICAL TREATISE on vENEREAL,
DIR. G. II. TOZER, 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 m, dcal men, it is our business to look at dis
ease merely as it affects life md heath and our ef-
forts directed, not to the reformation of mans Vi
cous propenses, but to the mitigation OF his bodily
suilerings 1t In this abstract sense we write OF
TeReredL Afectj0RS 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 lmied to
those subjects that most agreeable to his tastes.
To become cnlighted practitioner, it is as essential
that he should be liberal and ardent one; and aec-
tons, in their nature repusive to delicate sensibes,
be regarded in no 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 itonly labor is
disagreeabe 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 nirmity, Struck NY dis
ease the attractive parts of mans nat@re clouded
over; his pride is humbed; his intellect ie disturbed
his whole character, in word, is transformed. Too
often alas, is sickness the consequence of his fol-
ly; sclf-indulgence the qualification of appettes, the
eXhausting toll of avarce the feYerish lebors for hu
man applause, all produce their baneiul effects upon
tie Constitution. 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 a medical man to learn and in what
way this weakness is exhibited the philanhropc
heart will feel that it is pleasure well duty,
to relieve bodily nfrmities, whenever and however
u.cv appear. This is the higher and noblcr view Of
medical science. 1t devoes itself to the mitigation of
paiu the abatement of disease, the re estoration 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 althOr gh
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 ailct man, there is no
one more terrible in its consequences than SYPHILIS
Dreadful it to the person who ftst contracts it,
frghtfu frequently its ravages in his constitu-
ton, ending occasionally IN destrUctiOR =; yet it is
disease of deeper interest, and to be amented
when transmitted to offspring. Children often come
into the world with the disease hideously manifested
to the eye; covered with blotches and with
wrinkled faces, having the appearance of old ago ;
and il is probable that every particle of the living
gansm is equally tainted with the poison. When such
condition exists, 1t cannot be doubted that life will
too frequently be short and fall of 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
Eradicate SyphitiS from the World Would it not
seem that disease so prevalent and so drefu ought
to excite the deepest interest among the medical men,
both respects its true pathology and its reatmet
What excuse he offer for his deficiency, who calls
himself a surgeon and yet does not recognize
the disease when he sees it, and ignorant of the best
means OF checking it and preventing any future evil
consequences Is it enough for him TO say the i'm
agination the disease is loathsOm that it is
treatr 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
true spirit, will never rest contened with knowing
only limited part of it. There is subject that he
thinks unworthy of investigation and study. lie can
not be satisfied with smatterng knowledge of what
he is bound to understand we'll He feels resting upon
him "A double oblgaton-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 q reputation
for attainments and skill There are practition-
ers, indeed there are many, 1Ct0 are ignorant 0fUen
eredb diseases because they fancy it is not repeca-
bic to treat tlemOf all such persons it may be as
serted as beyond dispute that their ignorance not
confined to these diseases di0Re 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 FeSDectdbidY 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 bus-
ness will be inclined to class of Affections rather
than another but this is not because he regards
as beneath or unworthy his notice.
&. II. TOZER, I'D.