Daily national Democrat., 1858-11-27
A PRACTICAL TREATISE ON vENEREAL,
mr. &. 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. n,
ease merely it affects life and hedttb and our ell
forts are directed, not to the reformation OF mans VI
cious propenstes, but to the mitigation of MS Douy
suiTerngs 1t is in this abstract sense we write OF
VeneredL AfectiOns. And it 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 10
those subjects that most agreeable to his tastes
To become enghted practitioner, it is as essential
that he should be liberal and ardent one and atec-
ons in their nature repulsive to delicate sensibtes
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 and regard it only as labor, is
dsagreeable 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 nat@re are couded
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 own fol-
ly selfndugence, the qualification of appetites, The
exhaustng toll of avarce. the feversh lebors Tor hu-
man applause, all produce their baneful effects upon
the Constitution. But to the medical attendant, the
moral aspects are not to have any influence upon ms
| 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 phlanthropc
heart will feel that it is pleasure as well as duty
! to relieve bodily inirmites whenever and however
thev 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
ator of much that is dsagreeabe. But he is reward
ed by the lofty satisfaction OF feeling that alhor 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 lGbOrs.
OF all the affections that afllict man, there is no
one more terrible in its consequences than SYPHILIS
Dreadful it is to the person who first contracts it.
frightfu frequently are its ravages in his cOnstu
tion ending occasionally iA destruction yet it is a
disease of deeper interest, and 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 will
wrinked faces, having the appearance of old aga
and it is probable that every particle of the living or
gansm is equally tainted with the poison. When sucl
condition exists, it cannot be doubted that life viii
too frequently be short and full of pain.
SCROFULA, CONSUMPTION, and other diseases that ar
sometimes hereditary, are in many cases. its fruit
and one way to stay the devastating march of thos
fearful fatal affections, is, as far as practicable,
Eradicate Syphilis from the World Would it nc
seem that disease prevalent and direful, ougi
to excite the deepest interest among the medical mel
both respects its true pathology and its treatment
What excuse can he offer for his deficiency who cal
himself surgeon, and yet does not recogni2
the disease when he sees it, and is ignorant of the be
means OF checking it and preventing any future ev
consequences Is it enough for him to say to the in
aginatiOn the disease is lOatlsom one that it is
disreputable one to have, and a disgusting one
treat? Such excuse may, probably, satisfy hil
who has no better, but it will not satisfy scieLce nc
philanthropy.
Whoever undertakes the medic Il profession with
true spirit will never rest contented with KNOWN
only limited part of 1t. There is no subject that
thinks unworthy of investigation and study. He ca
not be satisfied with snattering knowledge of whi
he is bound to understand well. lie feels resting upO
him double obllgaton-One the duty he owes to u
public, to whom he announces that he is a qualiht
member of a noble profession the other, the duty
owes to himself, to make and maintain reputatiC
for atainments and skill. There some practtioI
ers, indeed there many, arho are ignorant Qf0el
eredI diseases because they fancy it is not respects
bic to treat them.-Of all such persons it may be a
serted beyond dispute, that their ignorance is n
confined to these diseases alone; they will be -four
:, deficient in all other points, and are not proper
qualified for the responsibilities they have assume
Whoever has just appreciation of the medical al
Is will not know any difference in the respectd6Hdy
&c diseases. An maadies alike fit subjects for
- care and reflection and the only distinction that
te acknowledges, is that which arises from their great
ID or less gravity. Circumstances may indeed, dire
his practice in particular channel, that his bu
ness will be inclined to class Of Affections ratf
than another; but this is not because he regards
as beneath or unworthy his notice
G. IL. T0ZER, NJ. D.