Daily national Democrat., 1858-12-15
A PRACTICAL TREATISE ON vENEREAL,
DIR. G. M. TOZER, Sacramento.

Dr. q. HI lOAGl6a SdcTAHuentOs
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, il is our business to look at dis
merely as 1t affects life md hedth; and our ef-
forts directed to the reformation of mans vi
cious propenstes, but to the mitigation of his bodily
suiferngs 1t is in this abstract sense we write OF
VeReredt Afecti07S And il is 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 limited to
those subjects that most agreeable to his tastes
TO become enlghted practitioner, it is essential
that he should be liberal and ardent one and affec
tions 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 it only as labor, is
disagreesbe one. In any FORM disease is unpleasant
to look upon. The sick chamber affords pleasant
sights The physician is made the witness both Of
| physical pain and moral inirmty, Struck NY dis
ease the attractive parts of mans nat=re are clOuded
over his pride is humbled his intellect lie disturbed
his whole character, in "A word, is transformed. Too
often alas is sickness the consequence of his fol-
ly; selfndulgence, the qualification Of appees, the
eXhaustng toll of avarice. the eversh lebors for hu
man applause, all produce their baneful 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 phlanthropic
to relieve bodily infirmites whenever and however
thev appear. This is the higher and nobler view of
medical science. 1t devotes itself to the mitigation Of
pau, the abatement of disease, the restoration to
health. In doing this, its minister must be the spec
of much that 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
Benevoence has the widest scope, and meets with the
richest return for its labors.
or all the affections that allict man, there is no
on m han Il
Dreadful 1t to the person who first contracts it,
frghtful frequently its raYages in his constu
tion 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 hdeously manifested
to the eye; covered with blotches and sores with
wrinkled 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, it 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 one way to stay the devastating march of those
fearful fatal affections, is far practicable to
| Eradicate SyOhttis from the World Would it not
seem that disease prevalent and 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 recognize
the disease when he sees it, and ignorant of the best
means OF checking ii and preventing any future evil
consequences Is it enough for him to say to the inn
agnaton the disease is loathsom one that it is a
disreputabe one to haYe and disgusting one TO
treat? Such an excuse may, probably, satisfy him
who has BETTER but it will not satisfy scieLce 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. He can
not be satisfied with slEattering 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 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 practitiOn-
ers, indeed there many, 1CO ignorant Ofge1-
eredt diseases because they fancy it is not respecta-
bic to treat them.0f all such persons it may be as
serted as beyond dispute, that their ignorance is not
confined to these diseases dt0ne 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 respectdbiIHy OF
diseases. All maladies alike fit subjects for his
and refeetion 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-
will be inclined to class of Affections rather
than another but this is not because he regards some
! as beneath or unworthy his notice.
9. II. T0ZER, NJ. D,