Daily national Democrat., 1858-12-29
PRACTICAL TREATISE on vENEREAL,
nr. G. M. TONNH, sacramento

DIR. G. NJ. FOE h'EkN SacTiHleHto'
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, it is our business to look at dls-
ease merely as it affects life and hedth; ana our el-
forts are directed, not to the reformation OF mans VI
cious propenscs, but to the mitigation OF his bodily
sulerings. 1t is in this abstract sense we write OF
Venerem A66ctiOnS. 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 limited TO
those subjects that most agreeable TO his tastes
To become an enlighed practitioner, it is as essential
that he should be liberal and ardent one; and alice
tions in their mature rcpulsve to delicate sensibles
be regarded in other light than as morOd 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
dsagreeable 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 aud moral inirmity, Struck ny dis
ease the attractive parts of mans na-re are clouded
over; his pride is humbled; his Intellect e 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 appetes the
eXhausng toll of avarice. the feversh lebors for u-
man applause all produce their baneful effects Wp0n
the Constitution. But TO the medical attendant, the
moral aspects are not to have any influence upon his
skill or his
Atthe best, human nature is but weak. This is the
first truth for medical to learn; and in what
ever way this weakness is exhibited, the philanhropic
heart will feel that is pleasure well as duty,
TO relieve bodily infrnties, whenever and however
they appear This is the higher and nobler view of
medical science. 1t devotes selfto 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 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 abors.
OF all the affections that ailict man, there Is no
one more terrible in its consequences than SYPHILIS.
Dreadful it is to the person who first contracts it,
frightful frequently are its ravages in his constu
ton ending occasionally in destruction yet it is a
disease of deeper interest, and more to be amented
when transmitted to offspring. Children often come
into the world with the disease hdeousy manifested
to the eye; covered with blotches and sores with
wrnked 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.
SoROFuLA, 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 as far as practicable to
Eradicate SHp]titiS from the World Would it not
that disease so prevalent and so drefu ought
to excite the deepest interest among the medical me
both respects its true pathology and its treatments
What excuse can he offer for his deficiency, who calls
himself surgeon and yet does not recognize
the disease when he it, ana ignorant of the best
consequences Is it enough for him to say the i'm
agination the disease is loathsom that it is a
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treat? Such an excuse may probably, satisfy him
who has no better, but it will not satisfy sceLce
philanthropy.
Whoever undertakes the medic Il profession with a
true spirit, will never rest contented with knowing
only limited part of it. There is subject that he
thinks unworthy of investigation and study lie can
not be satisfied with smattering knowledge of what
he is bound to understand we'll lie feels resting upOn
him 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 a reputation
for atanments and skill. There practition-
ers indeed there many, 1CO are ignorant Ofgen-
ereaJ diseases because they fancy it is not respecta-
bic to treat them-Of all such persons it may be
serted as beyond dispute, that their ignorance is not
confined TO these diseases dt0ne they win 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 respectdbil6y Of
diseases. All malades 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 Affections, rather
than another but this is not because he regards
as beneath or unworthy his notice.
G. II. T0ZER, NJ. D.