Daily national Democrat., 1859-03-16
PRACTICAL TREATISE ON vESEREAL,
DR.. G. III. TOzNH, sacramento

| There maladies to which the human family il
! liable of deeper Importance, either in medical OF
moral point Of view, than those arising from impure
| sexual intercourse.
AS medical men, it is our business to look at dis
merely it affects life and hedIts; and our ef
forts are directed, not to the reformation of mans vi
cios propensities, but to the mitigation of his bodily
SuTerirgs. 1t is in this abstract write OF
Venered affections. And it is In this 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 mi ed 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 ailec
ons in ia- nature repulsve to delicate seniblities,
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 1t only as labor is a
disagreeRble 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 nfrmity, Struck NY dis
ease the attractive parts of mans nat@re clOuded
over his pride is humbed; his intellect lie disturbed
his whole character, in word, is Transformed. Toa
often alas is sickness the consequence of his fol
ly; sefndulgence the qualification of appettes, the
eXhausng toll of avarce the feverish lcbors for hui
man applause, all produce their baneiul effects Np0n
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 medical man to earn and in what
ever way this weakness is exhibited the phantopic
heart will feel that 1t is pleasure as well as duty,
to relieve bodily infrmties, whenever and however
ttey 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
tator Of much that is disagreeable But he is reward
ed by the lofty satisfaction of feeling that ahor gh
personal comfort is sacrificed and sympathy is often
painfully excited yet il is through such road that
Benevoence has the widest scope, and meets with She
richest return for its lab0rs.
or all the affections that afIlict man, there is no
more terrible in its consequences than SYPHILIS
Dreadful it is to the person who fist contracts it,
frghtful as frequently are its ravages in his consttu
ton, ending occasionally an destruction yet IL is
disease of deeper interest, and to be lamented
when transmitted to offspring. Children often com
into the world with the disease hideousy manifested
to the eye; covered with blotches and with
wrinked faces, having the appearance of old ago
and 1t is probable that every particle of the living or
gansm is equally tainted with the poison. When such
a condition exists, it cannot 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 way to stay the devastating march Of those
fearful fatal affections is as far as practicable, to
Eradicate Syphilis from the World Would it not
seem that disease soprevaent and so direfu ought
to excite the deepest interest among the medical men
both respects its true pathology and its treatment
What excuse 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 it and preventing any future evil
consequences Is it enough for him to say to the i'm
agnation the disease is loathsom one that ii is a
ulSreputaDle one 10 nave anu II disgusting one 10
treat? Such an excuse may, probably, satisfy him
who has better, but it will not satisfy scelce nor
philanthropy.
Whoever undertakes the medic Il profession with
true spirit, will rest contented with knowing
only limited part OF 1t. There is subject that he
thinks unworthy of investigation and study. He can
not be satisfied with snattering knowledge Of what
he is bound to understand we'll He feels resting upon
him double oblgaton-one, 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 atainments and skill. There practiton-
ers, indeed there many, 1cO are ignorant oUen-
eredL diseases because they fancy it is not repecta
bic to treat them.Of all such persons it may be
serted beyond dispute, that their ignorance is not
confined to these diseases dtOne 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 respectd61Hy O
diseases. All maades 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 bus
ness will be inclined to class of Affections, rather
than another but this is not because he regards some
| as beneath unworthy his notice
G. H. TOZER, NJ d.