Daily national Democrat. [volume] (Marysville, Calif.) 1858-1861, 1859-02-08
A PRACTICAL TREATISE ON vESEREAL,
DR.. G. III. TOZER. sacramento.

There are no malades 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, 1t is business to look at dis
ease merely it affects life and health; and our eff
forts directed, not to the reformation OF mans VI
cious propensites, but to the mitigation OF his bodily
sunerings. 1t is in this abstract sense we write Of
VeeredI AfsctOnS 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 to his tastes
To become enlghted practitioner, it is as essential
that he should be liberal and ardent one; and aec
tons in ss- nature repulsve to delicate senbities,
be regarded in no other light than as morbid pheno-
mena at the LIVING BODY.
The whole business Of the medical art, when we
take low view of and regard it only labor, is
dsagreeable one In any form, disease is unpleasant
to look upon. The sick chamber affords no pleasant
sights. The physician Is made the witness both OF
physical pain and moral inhrmity, Struck NY dis-
ease the attractive parts Of mans natre couded
over his pride humbed his intellect lie disturbed
his whole character, in word, is transformed Too
often alas is sickness the consequence OF his own fol-
y elfndulgence, the qualification of appctites the
exhaustng toll of avarice the everish lebOrs for hu-
man applause, all produce their baneful effects 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 medical man to learn; and in what
way this weakness is exhibited, the phanthropc
heart will feel that it is pleasure well as duty,
to relieve bodily infrmtes, whenever and however
thew appear. This is the higher and nober 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
ator of much that is dsagreeable But he is reward
ed by the lofty satisfaction of feeling that ahOr oh
personal comfort Is sacrificed and sympathy is often
painfully excited yet it through such road that
Benevoence has the widest scope, and meets with She
richest return for its abors.
OF all the affections that afllict man, there is no
one terrible in its consequences than SYPHILIS
Dreadful it is to the person who first contracts it,
rghtfu as frequently its ravages i'm his constitu-
ton ending occasionally in destruction yet it 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 eye; covered with botches and sores with
wrinkled faces, having the appearance of old aga
and 1t is probable that every particle Of the living or
sanism is equally tainted with the poison. When such
condition exists it 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 as far practicable, to
Eradicate Syphilis from the World Would it not
that disease prevalent and direful, ought
TO excite the deepest interest among the medical
both respects its true pathology and its treatment
What excuse can he offer for his deficiency, who calls
himself surgeon, and yet does not even recognize
the disease when he sees it, and ignorant of the best
OF checking and preventing any future evil
consequences Is it enough for him to say to the i'm
agination the disease is oathsom one that it is
disreputable one to have, and disgusting one to
treat? Such an excuse may, probably, satisfy him
who has no BETTER but it will not satisfy scieloe nor
Whoever undertakes the medic Il profession with a
true spirit, will never rest contented with knowing
only limited part of It, There is no subject that he
thinks unworthy of investigation and study. lie can
not be satisfied with SCATTERING knowledge of what
he is bound to understand we'll He feels resting upon
him double obllgaton-one, the duty he to the
public to whom he announces that he is a qualified
member of a noble profession the other, the duty he
owes to himself to make and maintain reputation
for attachments and skill. There practtion-
ers, indeed there many, 1oO are ignorant ofUen
eredL diseases because they fancy it is not respecta
bic to treat them-0f all such persons it may be
serted beyond dispute, that their ignorance is not
confined to these diseases dt0fle; 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 respectd6iIy Of
diseases. All maladies alike fit subjects for his
care and reflection 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 bust
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.