Daily national Democrat., 1859-03-22
PRACTICAL TREATISE on yrSEREAL,
DIR. G. III. TOzER. sacramento.

There are no maadies to which the human family is
liable Of deeper issP0lfdnce, either in medical or
moral point Of view, than those arising from impure
sexual intercourse.
ns medical men, it is our business to look at dis
merely it affects life and hedtth and our ef-
forts are directed, to the reformation of mans vi
cous propensties but to the mitigation of his bodily
sufTcrings. 1t is in this abstract sense we write Of
VeRepeW 1GSctiOHS 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 will necessarily be limi ed to
those subjects that are most agreeable to his tastes
To become enghted practitioner it is as essential
that he should be liberal and ardent one and alice
tons in nature repulsve to delicate sens Utilities,
be regarded in no other light than as morbid pheno
mena af the LIVING BOpY.
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 unp easant
to look upon. The sick chamber affords no pleasant
sights. The physician made the witness both oil
physical pain and moral infrmty, Struck ny dis
ease the attractive parts OF mans nat-re are couded
overs his pride is humbled his intellect lie disturbed
his whole character, in word is transformed. TOO
often alas, is sickness the consequence OF his own fol-
y selfindulgence the gratifcation OF appeNtes the
eXhaustng toll of avarce the feVersh labOrS Tor hu-
applause, all produce their 6aneiul ELECTS upon
the Constitution. But to the medical attendant the
moral aspects are 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 phianhropc
heart will feel that it is pleasure as well as duty
to relieve bodily inhrmities, whenever and however
tkey appear, This is the higher and nobler view OF
medical science 1t deVotes selfto the mitigation of
pau the abatement Of disease, the restoration TO
health. In doing this its minister must be the spec
tator much that is dsagreeable But he is reward
ed by the lofty satisfaction OF feeling that althorgh
personal comfort is sacrificed and sympathy Is often
painfully excited yet it is through such road that
BenSyoence has the widest scope, ana meets VIII me
richest return for its lSbors.
or all the affections that allict man. there is no
one more terrible in It's consequences than SYPHILIS.
Dire adul it is to the person who first contracts it,
frghtul frequently its ravages in his constitu-
tion, ending occasionally in destruction yet it is a
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 eye; covered with blotches and sores with
wrinklcd faces, having the appearance OF old ago
and it is probable that every particle of the living or
gansm is equally tainted with the poison When such
n condition exists 1t cannot be doubted that life will
too frequently be short and full fpain.
ScRoFuLt, CONSTITUTION, and other diseases that are
sometimes hereditary, are in many cases, its fruit
and one way to stay the devastating march of those
Eradicate SYDliIiS from the World Would it not
that disease prevalent and so direful, ought
excite the deepest interest among the medical men
both respects its true pathology and its treatme
What he offer for his deficiency, who calls
hmselfa surgeon, and yet does not even recognize
the disease when he it, and ignorant Of the bast
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 loathsom one that it is
disrcputabe one to have, and disgusting one to
treat? Such excuse may, probably, satisfy him
who has no better, but it will not satisfy sciel
philanthropy.
Whoever undertakes the medic Il profession with a
true spirit will 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 a smattering knowledge Of what
he is bound understand we'll lie feels resting upOl
him double obllgation-one, the duty he 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 r. reputation
for attachments and skill There some practiton-
ers, indeed there many, lClO ignorant OfUen
eredI Diseases because they fancy it is not respcca
bic to treat tnem.-Of all such persons it may be as
serted beyond dispute that their ignorance is 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 reSpectd6H&y Of
diseases All malades alike fit subjects for his
care and reflection and the only distinction that he
acknowledges is that which arises from their greater
less gravity Circumstances may, indeed, direct
his practice in particular channel, so that his busi-
will be inclined to class Of Affections, rather
than another but this is not because he regards some
as beneath unworthy his notice.
c. H. TOZER, VI. d.