Daily national Democrat., 1858-11-21
A PRACTICAL TREATISE on vENEREAL,
DIR. G. III. TOzER. sacramento.

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 dis
ease merely it affects life and bedtth and our eff
forts directed, not to the reformation of mans Vi
cious propenses, but to the mitigation of his bodily
sulerngs IL is in this abstract sense we write of
TeReredI Afecti0RS And it is in this that the
Doctor should address himself TO their study. II his
feelings allowed to influence his professional pur
suits, his qualifications will necessarily be limied to
those subjects that most agreeable to his tastes
To become enlighted practitioner, it is essential
that he should be liberal and ardent one; and alTec
tions in their nature repusve to delicate sensbites,
be regarded in other light than morbid pheno-
mena af the LIVING BODY.
The whole business of the medical art when we
take low view of and regard it only 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 natcre clouded
over his pride is humbled; his intellect lie disturbed
his whole character, in word, is transformed Too
often alas is sickness the consequence of his fol-
ly; selfndulgence the qualification of appetites, the
eXhaustng toll of avarce the feverish abors for hu-
man applause all produce their banefu effects upon
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
way this weakness is exhibited, the phanthropic
heart will feel that it is pleasure well duty,
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they appear. This is the higher and nober view of
medical science. 1t devoes itselfto the mitigation of
pau, the abatement of disease, the restoration to
health. In doing this, its minister must be the spec
tator of much that is disagreeable But he is reward
ed by the lofty satisfaction of feeling that ahor 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.
OF all the affections that aGlict man, there is no
one more terrible in its consequences than SYPHILIS
Dreadful as it to the person who first contracts It,
frghtful frequently its ravages in his constitu-
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 hideously manifested
to the eye; covered with blotches and sores with
wrnkled faces, having the appearance of old age
and it is probable that every particle of the living or
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, as far practicable,
| ETddtcdte SypitttS from tie World Would it not
seem that disease so prevalent and drefu ought
to excite the deepest interest among the medical men,
both as respects its true pathology and its treatment?
What excuse can he offer for his deficiency, who calls
himself surgeon, and yet does not even recognize
the disease when he sees it, and is 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
agiuation the disease is a loahsom one that IL IL
disreputable one to have and Il disgusting one to
treatF 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
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 a smatering knowledge of what
he is bound to understand we'll He feels resting upon
him double Obllgaton-One, the duty he owes to the
public to whom he announces that he is n qualified
member of noble profession the other the duty he
owes to HIMSELF to make and maintain reputation
for atanments and skill. There some practiton-
ers, indeed there many, cit0 igaOrdnt Green
eedt diseases, because they fancy is not respecta-
bic to treat hem-Of all such persons it may be as
serted as beyond dispute that their ignorance is not
confined to these diseases atone; 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 reSpectdJity Of
diseases. All malades alike fit subjects for his
care and reelection; 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 aflictons rather
than another but this not because he regards some
| as beneath orunworthy his notice.
G. H. TOZER, NJ. D.