Daily national Democrat., 1858-12-22
4 PRACTICAL TREATISE on vENEREAL,
DR. G. III. TOZER, sacramento.

There 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 dis
ease merely as it affects life dBd hedt; and our ef-
forts are directed, not to the reformation OF mans VI
cious propenses, but to the mitigation OF his bodily
sunerugs 1t is i'm this abstract sense we write OF
VeneredL AtectioHS. 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 to
those subjects that most agreeable 10 his tastes
To become an enlighted practitioner, it is essential
that he should be liberal and ardent one; and atlec
ons in their repulsive to delicate sensibies,
be regarded in no other light than 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
disagreeabe 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 infrmity, Struck NY dis
ease the attractive parts of mans nat:re couded
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-
y; selfindugence the gratcation Of appetites, the
eXhaustng toll Of avarce the feverish lcbors for hu
man applause, all produce their baneful effects up0n
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 phanthropic
heart will feel that it is pleasure well duty,
to relieve DOunN lnnflnlltS' whenever anu however
thev appear. This is the higher and nober view of
medical science. 1t devoes 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 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
or all the affections that aGct man, there is no
one more terrible in its consequences than SYPHILIS.
Is / In ID q IL.
frghtfu frequently are its ravages in his consttu
ton, ending occasionally IN 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 hideousy manifested
to the eye; covered with blOtches and sores with
wrinkled faces having the appearance of old age ;
and it probable that every particle of the living
ganism is equally tainted with the poison. When such
a 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 Sgphtis from the World Would it not
that disease prevalent and direful, 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 it, and ignorant of the best
means OF checking it and preventing any future evil
consequences Is it enough for him to say to the i'm
agnaton the disease is loathsom that it is a
disreputabe one to have, and a disgusting one to
treat! Such an excuse may probably, satisfy him
who has better, but it will not satisfy scie ce nor
philanthropy.
Whoever undertakes the medic Il profession with a
true spirit will rest eOntented with knowing
only limited part of it. There is subject that he
thinks unworthy of investigation and study. lie can
not be satisfied with smatering knowledge of what
he is bound to understand WELL He feels resting upon
him double obllgaton-one, the duty he owes to the
public, to whom he announces that he is qualified
member of noble profession; the other the duty he
owes to himself, to make and maintain reputation
for attachments and skill. There are some practton
ers, indeed there many, gClo ignorant ofgen
eredL diseases because they fancy it is not respeca
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 dtone 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 respectdbiiy OF
diseases. All maades 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-
will be inclined to class of aictions rather
than another but this is not because he regards some
as beneath or unworthy his notice.
G. H. TOZER, NJ D.