Daily national Democrat., 1858-12-01
A PRACTICAL TREATISE ON vENEREAL,
Dr. G. III. 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.
AS medical men, IT is our business TO look at dis
ease merely it affects life and hedlh and our eff
forts directed not to the reformation of mans Vi
cous prOpensities but to the mitigation of his bodily
sufferings. 1t is in this abstract sense we write of
PeneredL fectiOns. 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 lini ed to
those subjects that most agreeable to his tastes
To become enlghted practitioner, it is essential
that he should be liberal and ardent one; ana alice
ons in their nature repulsve to delicate blitie
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
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 intrmity, Struck NY dis
ease the attractive parts of mans nat.re 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 fol-
y; self indulgence the qualification of appetites, the
exhausng toll of avarce. the feversh lebors for hu
man applause, all produce their baneful effects upon
the Constitution. But to the medical attendant, the
moral aspects not to have any influence upon his
skill or his cares.
Atthe best. human nature is but weak This is the
first truth for a medical to learn; and in what
way this weakness is exhibited the phianthropc
heart will feel that it is pleasure well duty
to relieve bodily infirmities whenever and however
tkev appear This is the higher and nobler view of
medical science. 1t deyotes itself to the mitigation of
paiu the abatement of disease, the restoration to
healh. In doing this, its minister must be the spec
ator of much that disagreeable But he is reward
ed by the lofty satsfactO of feeling that athOr gh
personal comfort is sacrificed and sympathy is often
painfully excited, yet it is through such a road that
Benevoerce has the widest scope, and meets with the
richest return for its abors.
OF all the affections that aalict man. there is no
terrible in its consequences than SYPHILIS.
Dreadful IL Is to the person who fist contracts it,
fghtful frequently its ravages in his consttu-
ton, ending occasionally an destruction vet it is
disease of deeper interest, and to be amented
when transmitted to offspring. Children often come
into the world with the disease hdeously manifested
to the eye; covered with blotches and sores with
wrinked 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, 1t 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 way to stay the devastating march of those
fearful fatal affections, is, far practicable, to
Eradicate SypltiIis from the World Would it not
seem that disease so prevalent and direful ought
to excite the deepest interest among the medical men,
both respects its true pathology and its treatment?
What excuse can he offer for his deficiency who calls
himself a 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
aginaton the disease is loathsom one that it is
u
treat? Such an excuse may probably, satisfy him
who has no better, but will not satisfy ce
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 snatering knowledge of what
he is bound to understand we'll He feels resting upon
him double obgation-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
Ia Ia Tna npHt afntst
for attainments and skill There practition-
indeed there many, 1ChO ignorant 0fgen-
eredt diseases, because they fancy it is not respeca-
bic to treat tn em0f all such persons it may be as
serted beyond dispute that their ignorance not
confined to these diseases alone, they will he 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 respectdbiHy Of
diseases. <Al malades alike fit subjects for his
care 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 Affections rather
than another but this is not because he regards
as beneath or unworthy his notice
G II. TOZER, NJ. D.