Daily national Democrat., 1859-01-11
A PRACTICAL TREATISE on yENEREAL,
Dr. G. III. TOzER. Sacramento.

There are no maades to which the human family is
liable Of deeper Importance, either in medical
moral point Of view, than those arising from impure
sexual intercourse.
as m dical men, il is our business 10 look at dis
ease merely it affects life and hedith; and our ef
forts directed, not to the reformation OF man VI
cious propeseS but to the mitigation of his bodily
suiferirgs. It's in this abstract sense we write OF
TeRereW 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 mi. ed to
those subjects that most agreeable TO his tastes
TO become eulighted practitioner, it is as essential
that he should be liberal and ardent one; and alec
tons in .s'- nature repulsve to delicate sensibes
be regarded in other light than as morbid pheno-
mena af the LIVING BODY.
The whole business of the medical art, when we
take low view Of it and regard it only labor, is
dsagreesbe 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 niirmty, Struck ny dis
ease, the attractive parts of mans nat@re are clouded
over his pride is humbied; his intellect ie disturbed
his whole character, in word, is transformed. Too
often alas is sickness the consequence of his own fol-
ly; selfinulrence, the qualification of appettes, the
eXhaustng toll of avarce. the fevcrsh lebors for hu-
applause, all produce their baneful effects WpOn
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
ever way this weakness is exhibited, the phlanthropc
heart will feel that it is pleasure as well as duty,
] bodily
tLev appear. This is the higher and nobler view OF
medical science 1t devots itself to the mitigation OF
paiu, the abatement of disease, the restoration to
health In doing this, its minister must be the spec
tator of much that is dsagrecabe But he is reward
ed by the lofty satsfaco of feeling that althor gh
personal comfort is sacrificed and sympathy is oen
painfully excited, yet it is through such road that
Benevolerce has the widest scope, ana meets WIZ me
richest return for its abors
or ALI the affections that afct man, there is no
one more terrible in its consequences than SYPHILIS
IA al tn ftna
righful as frequently its ravAgcs in his consttu-
ton, ending occasionally an deStiHcttOn yet II Is
disease of deeper interest," and more to be lamented
when transmitted to offspring. Children often cone
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 is probable that every particle of the living or
gansm is equally tainted with the poison. When such
condition exists, it cannot he 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, far practicable to
Eiddicdte Syphiijs from, the World Would it not
seem that disease prevalent and so direfu ought
to excite the deepest interest among the medical men
both respects its true pathology and its reatme
What he offer for his deficiency, who calls
himself 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 m-
agnaton the disease is loathsom one that it is
disreputabe one to have, and disgusting to
treat GuCu an excuse may pToudDly, SdlsIy MN
who has no better but it will not satisfy scie. nor
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 smatering knowledge of what
he is bound to understand we'll lie feels resting upol
him double oblgaton-one, the duty he owes 20 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 attainments and skill. There practton-
ers, indeed there many, 1chO are ignorant oCer-
eredL diseases because they fancy il is not respecta
bic TO treat taem.-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 not properly
qualified for the responsibilities they have assumed.
Whoever has just appreciation of the medical art,
will not know any difference in the reSpectdbHHy 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 one class of Affections, rather
than another but this is not because he regards some
as beneath orunworthy his notice.
C. II. TOZER, NJ. D.