Daily national Democrat., 1858-12-28
Or, c., III. TOZER,
A PRACTICAL TREATISE ON vENEREAL,
DR.. g, H. TOZER, sacramento.

There are no maladies to which the human family is
liable of deeper Importance, either in medical or
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 Lte and hedih; and our eff
forts directed not to the reformation OF mans "
cous prouensities but to the mitigation OF his bodily
sunerings. 1t is in this abstract sense We write OF
TeRe,eW affections. 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 enghted practitioner, IL is as essential
that he should be liberal and ardent one; and aec
tons, in their nature repulsve to delicate sensibes,
be regarded in 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 labor is a
disagrccabe 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 intirmity, Struck NY dis
ease, the attractive parts of mans nat2re 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 fol-
ly self-indugence the qualification Of appetites, the
eXhaustng toll of avarce. the cverish lebors for hu
man applause all produce their baneful effects Up0R
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 medical man to learn and in what
ever way this weakness is exhibited, the philanthopc
heart will feel that il is pleasure well duty
10 relieve bodily inhrmities, whenever and however
they appear. This is the higher and nobler view of
medical science. 1t devotes tselfto the mitigation of
paiu, the abatement of disease, the restoration to
health In dongths, its minister must be the spec
ator Of much thats disagreeable But he is reward
ed by the lofty satisaCtol of feeling that althOV 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 aillict man, there Is no
one more terrible in its consequences than SYPHILIS.
Dreadful it is to the person who first contracts it.,
frightfu frequently its ravages in his constitu-
ton, ending occasionally in destruction yet it is n
disease of deeper interest, and more to be anened
when transmitted to offspring Children often come
into the world with the disease hideously manifested
to the eye; covered with bOtches and sores with
wrinkled faces having the appearance of old aga /;
and it is probable that every particle of the living
gansm 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 as practicable to
Eradicate Sgph0is from the World Would it not
seem that disease prevalent and so 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 n surgeon, and yet does not even recognize
the disease when he sees it, and ignorant of the best
means OF checking it and preventing any future evil
consequences Is ii enough for him to say the inn
agnaton the disease is a loathsOm one that it is a
dlsreputaDie one to nave, ana disgusting one to
treatF Such an excuse may, probably, satisfy him
who has better but it will not satisfy sciel ce nor
philanthropy.
Whoever undertakes the medical profession with a
true spirit will never rest contented with knowing
only limited part Of it, There is no subject that he
thinks unworthy Of investigation and study. lie can
not be satisfied with smatterng knowledge of what
he is bound to understand WELL He feels resting upon
him double obllgation-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 attainments and skill There some practition-
ers, indeed there many, arbO ignorant OfgeR
eFedt diseases because they fancy it is not respeca
bic to treat them.-0f all such persons it may be as
serted beyond dispute, that their ignorance is not
confined to these diseases dtOne they viii 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 respectdbjIty 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 class of Affections, rather
than another but this is not because he regards
as beneath or unworthy his notice
G. II. TOZER, NJ. D.