Daily national Democrat., 1858-12-11
A PRACTICAL TREATISE on vENEREAL,
DIR. G. III. TOzEIs, Sacramento.

There are no maladies to which the human family is
liable of deeper impOytdnce, 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 hedtth; and our ef-
forts directed not to the reformation OF mans Vi
cous propensities but to the mitigation Of his bodily
suiTerings. It is in this abstract sense we write of
FeReFedI affections. 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 viii necessarily be limited to
those subjects that most agreeable to his tastes
To become enlighed practitioner, it is essential
that he should be liberal and ardent one and aiec-
ons, in their nature repusive to delicate sensibiltes
be regarded in no 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 as labor, is
disagreeable 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 and moral infrmy Struck ny dis
ease the attractive parts of mans natGre 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; sefindulgence, the qualification of appetes, the
exhausting toll of avarce the feversh lebors for hu
man applause, all produce their baneiul effects upon
tie 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
way this weakness is exhibited, the philanhropic
heart will feel that is pleasure well as duty,
to relieve bodily inirmities, whenever and however
they appear This is the higher and nobler view of
medical science 1t deYotes 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 althor Oh
personal comfort sacrificed and sympathy is often
painfully excited, yet il is through such road that
Benevoence has the widest scope and meets with the
richest return for its labors.
OF all the affections that anct man. there is no
one more terrible in its consequences than SYPHILIS
n-.g 4 al 81 to f1,.. ..I.
frightful as frequently its rayages in his constu
ton, ending occasionally In destruction yet it is
disease of deeper interest, and to be lamented
when transmitted to offspring. Children often COM
into the world with the disease hideously manifested
to the eye covered with blotches and sores with
wrinltled faces, having the appearance of old age
and it is probable that every particle of the living
gansm 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
brddicdte SyohtJts 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 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
agination the disease is loahsom one that it is a
disreputable one to have, and a disgusting one to
treatY Such an excuse may, probably, satisfy him
who has no BETTER but il will not satisfy scieL 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 no subject that he
thinks unworthy Of Investigation and study. He can
not be satisfied with smattering knowledge of what
he is bound to understand we'll lie feels resting upon
him double oblgation-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 practon-
ers, indeed there are many 1o0 are ignorant 0f0en-
eredL diseases because they fancy it is respecta
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 at0ne 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 resDectdbiIiy of
diseases. All maladies are 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 bust
will be inclined to class of aflictions rather
than anoher but this is not because he regards some
as beneath or unworthy his notice.
G. II. TOzER, NJ. D.