Daily national Democrat., 1859-02-01
A PRACTICAL TREATISE on vENEREAL,
DR.. g. III, TOZETs, sacramento.

There are no maadies 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 mt dical men, II is our business to look at dis
ease merely it affects life and hedtth and our eff
forts directed not to the reformation of mans vi
cous propensities but to the mitigation of his bodily
sulTerirgs. II is in this abstract sense we write of
VeneredI affections. 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 most agreeable TO his tastes
70 become an enhghed practitioner, it is as essential
that he should be liberal and ardent one; and aiec
tions, in nature repusive to delicate ibites
be regarded in no other light than as morbid phenu-
mena af the LIVING BODY.
The whole business of the medical art, when we
take low view of and regard it only labor, is
disagreesble 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 infrmty, Struck NY dis
ease the attractv parts of mans nat=re clouded
over; his pride is humbled; his intellect lie disturbed
his whole character, in word, is transformed. Too
often alas sickness the consequence Of his own fol
y; selfindugence the gratiica ton of appetes the
exhaustng toll of avarice. the feversh lebors for hu
man applause, allproduce 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 philanhropc
heart will feel that is pleasure as well as duty,
to relieve bodily inhrmties, whenever and however
thew appear. This is the higher and nObler view oil
medical science 1t devotes itself to the mitigation OF
paiu, the abatement of disease, the restoration to
heal h. In doing this, its minister must be the spec
tator of much that is disagreeable But he reward
ed by the lofty sasfactiO of feeling that althor g
personal comfort is sacrificed and sympathy is often
painfully excited, yet it is through such road that
Benevolence has the widest scope, and meets Wtf he
richest return for its labors
or all the affections that afllict man, there is no
one more terrible in its consequences than SYPHILIS.
Dreadful it is to the person who fist contracts it,
frghtu frequently its ravages in his constitu-
ton, ending occasionally IN destruction yet it is
disease of deeper interest, and more to be amented
when Transmitted to offspring Children often co e
into the world with the disease hdeously manifested
to the eye covered with bl0tches and sores with
wrinkled faces, having the appearance of old aga
and IL is probable that every particle Of the living or
ganism is equally tainted with the poison When sueh
condition exists it cannot be doubted that life will
too frequently he short and full of pain.
ScRoFULA CONSUMPTION, and other diseases that are
sometimes hereditary, are in many cases, its fruit
and one way stay the devastating march of those
fearful fatal affections, is, far rs practicable, tC
Eradicate SgphtttS from the World Would it moi
that disease so prevalent and so direfu ough
to excite the .eepest interest among the medical men
both respects its true pathology and its treame
What excuse can he offer for his deficiency, who call
himself surgeon and yet does not even recognize
the disease when he it, and ignorant of the bes
means o checking it and preventing any future evi
consequences Is it enough for him to say to the i'm
agnaton the disease Is loathsom one that 1t is
diSreputabe one to have, and disgusting one tc
treat? Such an may, probably, satisfy him
who has better, but it will not satisfy sce ce moi
philanthropy.
Whoever undertakes the medic Il profession with a
true spirit will never rest contented with knowing
only limited part Of it. There is subject that he
thinks unworthy Of investigation and study. He can
not be satisfied with a scattering knowledge of what
he is bound to understand we'll He feels resting up07
him double obgation-0ne, 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 reputation
for attainments and skill. There praciiton-
ers, indeed there many, a1b0 ignorant oUeR-
eredL diseases because they fancy it is not respecta
bic TO treat em.-0f all such persons it may be as
serted beyond dispute, that their ignorance is not
confined TO these diseases dI0ne they will he 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 respectdbH1y o.
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. that his busi-
will be inclined to class of afctions, rather
than another but this is not because he regards
as beneath or unworthy his notice.
G II. TOZER, NJ. D.