Daily national Democrat., 1858-11-19
A PRACTICAL TREATISE on vENEREAL,
Dr. g. III. rOzER, sacramento

There are no malades to which the human family is
liable of deeper imp0,tdnce, either in a medical or
moral point of view, than those arising from impure
sexual intercourse
as m, dical men, is our business to look at dis
ease merely it affects tite and hedttb; and our eff
forts are directed not to the reformation OF mans VI
cous propenstes but to the mitigation of his bodily
suGerings. Ii is in this abstract sense we write of
TenereM A66ctiOHS And 1t is in this sense that the
Doctor should address himself to their study. ii his
feelings ara allowed influence his professional pur
SUITS his qualifications will necessarily be lim ed TO
those subjects that most agreeable to his tastes
To become enlghted practitioner, it is as essential
that he should be liberal and ardent one; and aiec
tons in their nature repusve to delicate Utilities,
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 labor, is
isagrteGbe one. In any form, disease is unpleasant
to look upon. The sick chamber affords pleasant
| sights The physician made the witness both Of
| physical pain and moral nirmity, Struck NY dis
ease the attractv parts Of mans nat@re are couded
over; his pride is hunbed; his intellect lie disturbed
uis whole character, in word, is transformed. Too
often alas is sickness the consequence Of his own fol
y sef-ndugence the grathcat ton of appetites, the
exhausting toll OF avarice. the feversh lgbOrs for hu
applause, all produce their banelul effects upon
the Constitution. But to the medical attendant, the
moral aspects not to have any influence upon his
| skill or his cares.
I 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 philanthropic
heart will feel that it is pleasure as well duty,
to relieve bodily inhrmities whenever and however
tlev appear. This is the higher and nobler view of
medical science. 1t devotes itself to the mitigation of
paiu, the abatement of disease, the restoration to
heal IA. In DONG THIS It's minister must be the spec
tator of much that is disagreeahc But he is reward
ed by the lofty sasfacto of feeling that althor gh
personal comfort is sacrificed and sympathy is often
painfully excited, yet it is through such road that
Benev oence has the widest scope and meets with the
richest return for its abors.
OF all the affections that aflict man, there is no
one more terrible in its consequences than SYPHILIS.
Dreadful as it is to the person who contracts it,
frghtiul frequently its ravagos in his constu-
ton, ending occasionally in destruction yet it is a
disease of deeper interest, and more to be amented
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 ago
ami it is probable that every particle of the living
ganism is equally tainted with the poison When such
condition exists, il cannot be doubted that life will
| too frequently he short and full of pain.
SCRUFULA, 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 as practicable, to
E,0dicdte Sypl,itis from, tie World Would it not
seem tha disease so prevalent and dreul, ought
to excite the -eepest interest among the medical men,
both respects its true pathology and its treatme
What excuse can he offer for his deficiency, who calls
hi nself surgeon, and yet does not even recognize
the disease when he it, and is ignorant of the best
means checking it and preventing any future evil
consequences Is it enough for him to say the i'm
agiuatiOn the disease is loatsum one that il is a
disreputahle one to have and disgusting one TO
/
who has no better, but it Will not satisfy sciel
| philanthropy.
Whoever undertakes the medic Il profession with a
| 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 suatering knowledge of what
ne is bound to understand we'll He feels resting upoa
him double obigation-one, the duty he owes to the
public u whom lac announces that he is a qualified
member of noble profession the other, the duty he
owes to himself, to make and maintain reputation
for at anments and skill There are some practitiou-
ers, indeed there many, act0 ignorant QJUels-
eredt diseases, because they fancy it respccta-
bic to treat tlem.-Of all such persons it may be
serted beyond dispute that their ignorance not
confined to these diseases alone; 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 respectdbitHy oJ
diseases. All maladies alike fit subjects tur has
care and reflection; ana the only distinction that he
acknOw lodges 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 alnictious rather
than another but this not because he regards some
as beneath or unworthy his notice.
c. IL. TOZER, NJ. D.