Daily national Democrat., 1858-12-07
A PRACTICAL TREATISE on yENEREAL,

There are no maadies to which the human family is
liable of deeper Importance either in a medical or
moral point of view, than these arising from impure
sexual intercourse.
AS medical men. 1t is our business to look at dis
ease merely it affects life and hedih; and our ef-
forts directed, not to the reformation OF man VI
cious propensites but TO the mitigation of his bodily
sunerngs. 1t is in this abstract sense we write OF
TeReredI Injections. Aud il 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 lmled to
those subjects that most agreeable TO his tastes
To become enlighed practitioner, it is as essential
that he should be liberal and ardent one; and afec-
tions in their nature reulsive to delicate senibties,
be regarded in no other light than as morbid pheno-
lncna af the LIVING BODY.
The whole business of the medical art, when we
take low view of it and regard it only as labor is
dsaTeeable In any form, disease is unpleasant
to look upon. The sick chamber affords no pleasant
sights. The physician is smade the witness both Of
physical pain and moral intirmty, Struck ny dis
ease the attractive parts Of mans nat@re cOuded
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 own fol-
ly self Indulgence, the qualification Of appetites, the
eXhausting toll of avarce the feverlsh ebors for hui
man applause, all produce their baneu effects Up0n
the 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
ever way this weakness is ehibited the phanthrOpic
heart will feel that il is pleasure as well duty,
to relieve bodily nhrmites, whenever and however
they appear. This is the higher and nober view of
medical science Itdeyotes itselfto 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 disagreeable But he is reward
ed by the lofty satisfaction 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 abors.
OF all the affections that aflict man, there is no
one more terrible in its consequences than SYPHILIS
Dreadful as it is to the person who frst contracts it,
frightfu frequently are its ravages in his consttu
tion ending occasionally in destract{0R 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 hdeously manifested
to the eye covered with blotches and sores with
wrinked faces, having the appearance of old ago ;
and ii is probable that every particle of the living
ganism is equally tainted with the poison. When such
n condition exists, it cannot be doubted that life will
too frequently be short and full ofpan
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
! Ei'ddjcate syphilis from the World Would it not
seem that disease soprevaent and direfu, ought
to excite the deepest interest among the medical men,
both respects its true pathology and its treatment
What excuse he offer for his deficiency who calls
himself surgeon, and yet does not even recognize
the disease when he sees it, and ignorant of the best
means OF checking and preventing any future evil
consequences Is it enough for him to say to the i'm
agnaton the disease is loathsom one that it is a
disreputable one to haYe and disgusting one to
treat! such an excuse may, probably, satisfy him
who has better, but it viii not satisfy nor
philanthropy.
Whoever undertakes the medic Il profession with a
true spirit, will never rest coutented with knowing
only limited part of it. There is subject that he
thinks unworthy Of Investigation and study lie can
not be satisfied with scattering knowledge of what
he is bound to understand we'll lie feels resting upon
him double obgation-one, the duty he owes to the
public, to whom he announces that he is n qualified
member of a noble profession the other, the duty he
owes to himself, to make and maintain reputation
for attanments and skill There are some practtion-
ers, indeed there are many, 3ch0 are ignorant OfUeR
eredt diseases, because they fancy is not respecta
bic to treat tn em.-0P all such persons it may be
serted as beyond dispute that ther ignorance is not
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 respectdb11y 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 bus-
ness will be inclined to one class Of Affections, rather
than another; but this not because he regards some
| as beneath or unworthy his notice.
G. H. TOZER NJ D.