Daily national Democrat., 1859-04-13
PRACTICAL TREATISE on vnSEREAL.
pr. G. II, 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. 8,
as m, dcal men, il is our business to look at dis
ease merely as it Affects life and hedtth and our ei-
forts are directed not to the reformation OF man W
cious propensites, but to the mitigation OF his bodily
snfTeriDgs II is in this abstract sense we write OF
V,nereH Afect0pS Aud il is in this sense that the
Doctor should address himself to their stidy. II ms
feelings allowed to influence ms professional puT-
suits his qualifications will necessarily be llml eel TO
those subjects that most agreeable to his tastes,
TO become an enlghted practitioner, IT is as essential
that he should be liberal and ardent onei anu auec-
tions in nature repulsive to delicate sen Utilities,
be regarded in other light than as morbid phen"-
mena af the LIVING BODY.
The whole business nf 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 no pleasant
sights. The physician IS made the witness ooth oi
physical pain and moral infrmity, Struck NY dis
ease the attractive parts of mans nat-re are clouded
over; his pride is humbed; his intellect lie disturbed
his whole character, in IA word, is transformed Too
often alas Is sickness the consequence OF his own iol
ly; sef-indugence, the qualification OF appettes, The
exhausting toll Of avarice the feversh ebors Tor hu-
man applause, all produce their baneiul effects UP'a
| the Constitution But to the medical attendant, the
moral aspects not to have any influence upon MS
skill or his cares.
! Attbe best human nature Is but weak. This is the
first truth for a medical man to learn; and in what
ever way this weakness is exhibited the philanhropc
heart will feel that it is pleasure as well as duty
to relieve bodily intrmities, whenever and however
thew appear. This is the higher and noDler view OF
medical science 1t devotes itself to the mitigation oil
paiu the abatement of disease, the restoration TO
health In doing this, its minister must be the spec
tatOr Of much that is disagreeabe But he Is reward
ed bv 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
Denevoence has the widest scope, ana meets VIII ne
| richest return for its Iabors.
or all the affections that allIct man, there is no
one more terrible in its consequences thn SYPHILIS
Dreadful it is to the person who st contracts 1t,
frightful frequently are ts ravAges in his constltu-
ton, ending occasionally an destruction; yet 1t Is
disease of deeper interest, and more to be amented
when transmitted to offspring. Children often cone
into the world with the disease hdeousy manifested
| to the eve covered with blotches and sores with
wrinkled faces having the appearance OF old aga
and 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
SCRoFuL, CONSUMPTION, and other diseases that are
sometimes hereditary, in many cases, its fruit
and one way to stay the devastating march of those
fearful fatal affections is as far as practicable to
EtodicGte SYphiIiS from the World Would it not
that disease prevalent and so direful, ought
to excite the eepest interest among the medical men
both respects its true pathology and its treatne "
What excuse he offer for his deficiency, who calls
hnself a surgeon, and yet does not even recognize
the disease when he it, and ignorant of the best
means OF checking il and preventing any future evil
consequences Is il enough for him to say to the I'M
aginaton the disease is loathsom one that 1t is a
disreputable one to have, and a disgusting one to
treat? Such may, probably, satisfy him
who has BETTER but 1t will not satisfy scie ce nor
philanthropy.
Whoever undertakes the medic Il profession with
true spirit, will rest contented with knowing
only limited part of 1t. There Is no subject that he
thinks unworthy of investigation and study. He can
not be satisfied with a smatterng knowledge of what
he is bound 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 qualified
member of noble profession; the other, the duty he
owes to himself, to make and maintain reputation
for attachments and skill. There are some practtion-
indeed there many, 1oho are ignorant ofUeR
ered Diseases because they fancy it is not respecta
bic to treat lem-0f all such persons it may be
serted beyond dispute that their ignorance is not
confined to these diseases atone; they will he found
deficient in all other points, and are not properly
qualified for the responsibilities they have assumed.
Whoever has a just appreciation of the medical art,
will not know any difference in the respectd6t1y Of
diseases. All malades alike fit subjects for his
care and reflections 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
will be inclined to class of Affections, rather
than another but this is not because he regards
as beneath or unworthy his notice.
c. II. TOZER, NJ. d.