Daily national Democrat., 1858-12-24
DR., c. II. TOZER
A PRACTICAL TREATISE ON vENEREAL,
Dr r. H. 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
merely it affects life and hedtth; and our et-
forts directed not to the reformation oil mans VI
cious propensites but to the mitigation of his bodily
sunerirgs 1t is in this abstract sense we write OF
FeHereH AfectiOHS And it is in this sense that the
Doctor should address himself to their study IL his
feelings allowed to influence his professional pur-
suits, his qualifications will necessarily be limited 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 alice
tions in their nature repulsve to delicate senbites,
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
dsagreeable 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 infrmity, Struck ny dis
eas the attractive parts Of mans nat:re couded
over; his pride is hunbed his intellect lie disturbed
his whole character in word, Is transformed. Too
often alas is sickness the consequence Of his fol-
y selfnduCence, the qualification of appetites, the
eXhaustng toll of aYarice the feversh Gbors for hui
man applause, all produce their 6aneu effects Wpon
the 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 n medical man to learn; and in what
ever way this weakness Is exhibited the phlanthropc
heart will feel that it is pleasure as well as duty,
to relieve bodily inGrmites, whenever and however
they 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
health In doing this its minister must be the spec
aor of much that is dsagreeable But he is reward
ed by the lofty satisfaction of feeling that althor gh
personal comfort is sacrificed and sympathy is often
painfully excited, yet it is through such road that
Benevurnce has the widest scope and with the
richest return for its labors
or all the affections that aflict man, there is no
one more terrible in its consequences than SYPHILIS
Dreadful it is to the person who first contracts it,
rightu frequently are its ravages in his cOnstitu-
ton, ending occasionally IN destruction yet ii is n
disease of deeper interest and more to be lamented
when transmitted to offspring. Children often come
into the world with the disease hidcousy manifested
to the eye covered with blotches and sores with
wrinked faces, having the appearance of old aga
and il is probable that every particle of the living
ganism 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 practicable to
Eradicate SgOhitis from the World Would it not
that disease prevalent and so direul ought
to excite the deepest interest among the medical men
both respects its true pathology and its treatment
What he offer for his deficiency, who caus
himself a 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 IL enough for him to say to the
agination the disease is loahsom one that it is
treatP Such an excuse may probably, satisfy him
who has BETTER but it will satisfy sceL ce nor
philanthropy.
Whoever undertakes the medic II profession with a
true spirit, will never rest contented with knowing
only limited part of it. There is bject 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 upoa
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
owes to himself, to make and maintain a reputation
for attanmens and skill. There practition-
ers, indeed there many, aCO are ignorant QfUen-
eFedt diseases because they fancy 1t is not respecta
bic to treat tn em.-0f all such persons it may be
serted beyond dspute that their ignorance is not
confined to these diseases alone; they will be found
deficient in all other points, and not properly
qualified for the responsibilities they have assumed.
Whoever has just appreciation of the medical art,
will not know any difference in the respectd5ty OF
diseases. All maadies are alike fit subjects for his
care and rejection 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 one class of afIctions, rather
than another but this is not because he regards
as beneath or unworthy his notice.
G. II. TOZER, NJ. D..