Daily national Democrat., 1859-04-09
A PRACTICAL TREATISE on vESEREAL,
DIR. G, HI. TOZER, Sacramento.

- EAs AOANANR saw
There are no maladies to which the human family is
liable Of deeper importance, either in a medical or
moral point of yiew than those arising from impure
sexual intercourse.
AS medical men, it is our business TO look at dis
ease merely as it affects life and heath; and our ef-
forts are directed not to the reformation of mans VI
cous propensties but to the mitigation OF MS bodily
sugerings II is in this abstract write OF
VeRereH AfectiOnS And it is in this sense that the
Doctor should address himself to their study Ii his
feelings ara allowed to influence his professional pur-
suits his qualifications will necessarily be limited to
those subjects that most agreeable 10 MS tastes
To become an enghted practitioner it is as essential
that he should be liberal and ardent one; and alice
tions in .as- nature repulsive to delicate sensibes
be regarded in other light than as m0rDu pheno-
mena af the LIVING BODY.
The whole business OF the medical art, when we
take low view of it and regard II only as laOor
disagreesble In any form disease is unpleasant
to look upon The sick chamber affords no pleasant
sights. The physician is made the witness both oi
physical pain and moral infrmity, Struck ny dis-
ease the attractive parts of mans natGre are clouded
over; his pride is humbled; his intellect lie disturbed
his whole character in a word, is transformed Toe
often alas is sickness the consequence OF his own to
ly; sefindulgence the qualification OF appetites th'
eXhausng toll Of aYarcs the feverish ebors ior hu
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.
AT the best human nature is but weak. This is the
first truth for a medical to learn; and in what
ever way this weakness is exhibited, the phlanhropic
heart will feel that IT Is pleasure well as duty,
to relieve bodily infrmities whenever and however
thev annear This is the higher and nobler view OF
medical science. 1t deyotes 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 dsagreeable But he Is reward
ed by the lofty satisfaction of feeling that ahoTgh
personal comfort is sacrificed and sympathy is often
painfully excited, yet it is through such road that
Benevolence has the widest scope and meets WITT She
richest return for its labors.
OF all the affections that allict man, there is no
one more terrible in its consequences than SYPHILIS
Dreadful as it is to the person who h'st contracts 1t
frghtu frequently are its ravages in his constitu
ton, ending occasionally in destruction yet 1t is
disease of deeper interest," and more to be lamented
when Transmitted to offspring. Children often come
into the world with the disease hdeously manifested
to the eve; covered with blotches and sores with
wrinkled faces having the appearance OF old aga
and it is probable that every particle of the living or
gansm is equally tainted with the poison. When suci
a condition exists, 1t cannot be doubted that life viii
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 thOs'
fearful fatal affections is, as far as practicable, tt
Eradicate Syphilis from the World Would it no
seem that disease prevalent and so direful ough
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 bes
means OF checking IL and preventing any future evil
agination the disease is oathsom one that it is
dsreputable one to have, and disgusting one to
treat? Such an may, probably, satisfy him
who has BETTER but will not satisfy scieLce nor
philanthropy
Whoever undertakes the medic Il profession with a
true spirit, will never rest contented with knowing
only limited part of ii. There is subject that he
thinks unworthy of investigation and study lie can
not be satisfied with smattering knowledge of what
he is bound to understand well. He feels resting upo1
him double obgation-One, the duty he owes to the
public to whom he announces that he is qualified
member of a noble profession the other the duty he
owes to himself, to make and maintain reputation
for attainments and skill There some practition-
ers indeed there are many, l0hO ignorant OfUe-
eredI Diseases because they fancy it is not respecta
bic to treat them-0f all such persons il may be as
serted beyond dispute, that their ignorance is not
confined to these diseases dIOne 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 respectGJHWy
diseases. All maadies alike fit subjects for hi,
care and reflection and the only distinction that ht
acknowledges, is that which arises from their greater
or less gravity. Circumstances may, indeed, direc
his practice in particular channel, that his bust
will be inclined to class of alllictions, rather
than another but this is not because he regards
as beneath or unworthy his notice.
c. II. TozER, NJ. D.