Daily national Democrat., 1858-12-17
A PRACTICAL TREATISE ON vENEREAL,
nr. @. M. TOZER. sacramento.

There are no maadies 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 il is our business to look at dis
ease merely II affects life and hedthi and our ei-
forts directed not to the reformation OF mans "
cious propenstes but TO the mitigation OF his bodily
sulTerngs 1t is in this abstract sense we write OF
Tenere affections. And 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 limited to
those subjects that most agreeable to his tastes
To become an enghted practitioner it is essential
that he should be liberal and ardent one and aec-
ons i'm their nature repulsve 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 we
take low view of II and regard it only labor, is
dsagreeabe 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 infirmity, Struck NY dis
ease, the attractive parts of mans nat3re clouded
over his pride is humbed; his intellect ie disturbed
his whole character in word, is transformed. Too
often alas, sickness the consequence of his own fol-
ly self Indulgence, the qualification of appees the
exhausting toll OF avarice the everish ebors for hu
man applause, all produce their baneul 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
ever way this weakness is exhibited the phlanhropc
heart will feel that it is pleasure as well as duty,
to relieve bodily nirmties, whenever and however
they appear. This is the higher and nobler view of
medical science. 1t devOtes 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 satisactio of feeling that althor g
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 lGbors.
or all the affections that aiict man, there is no
one more terrible IN its consequences than SYPHILIS
Dreadful as it is to the person who first contracts it,
rghtful as frequently are its ravages in his consttu
ton, ending occasionally in destruction yet il is
disease of deeper interest, and more 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 sores with
wrnkled faces, having the appearance of old aga
and it is probable that every particle of the living
ganisrn is equally tainted with the noson When ic!
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 one way to stay the devastating march of those
fearful fatal affections, is, far as practicable Ia
Eradicate SHpltttts from the World Would it not
seem that disease prevalent and direfu, ought
to excite the deepest interest among the medical men
both as respects its true pathology and its treatment
What he offer for his deficiency, who caus
himself surgeon, and yet does not even recognize
the disease when he it, and ignorant of the best
means OF checking il and preventing any future evil
consequences Is it enough for him to say the inn
aginatiOn the disease is a lOathsOm that il is
ulsreputaDle one 10 nave, ana n disgusting one TO
treat? Such an excuse may, probably, satisfy him
who has BETTER but it will not satisfy sciet ce nor
philanthropy.
Whoever undertakes the medic Il profession with n
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 smattering knowledge of what
he is bound TO understand we'll He feels resting upon
him double obllgaton-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 a reputation
for attainments and skill. There some practon-
ers, indeed there are many, aoO are ignorant QfUe
eredt diseases because they fancy it is respecta
bic to treat Tn nem.0f all such persons it may be as
serted as beyond dispute that their ignorance is not
confined TO these diseases dJOne 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 respectdbiIny of
diseases. All maadies alike fit subjects for his
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 aillictons rather
than another but this is not because he regards
as beneath or unworthy his notice.
c. II. TozER, Md.