Daily national Democrat., 1859-04-29
A PRACTICAL TREATISE on vESrnEAL.
Dr 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 mt dical men, it is our business to look at dis
ease merely as il affects life and heath; and our ef-
forts are directed to the reformation OF mans VI
cious proyenstes but to the mitigation OF his bodily
suTerngs. 1t is in this abstract sense we write ol
Vsnsredl Affections. And it is In this sense that the
Doctor should address himself to their study. II his
feelings ara allowed influence his professional pur-
suits his qualifications will necessarily be liln ell TO
those subjects that most agreeable to his
To become enghted practitioner IT is as essential
that he should be liberal and ardent one and auec-
ous in nature repulsive to delicate sen 'ibilities,
be regarded in other light than as morbid phen"-
mena af the LIVING BODY.
Th whole business nf the medical art, when we
take low view of it and regard it only as ahorls
dsagreesble one In any form, disease is unpleasant
to look unon. The sick chamber affords no pleasant
sights. The physician is made the witness Doth OF
physical pain and moral infrmlty, Struck ny ds,
ease the attractive parts of mans nat-re are couued
over; his pride is humbed; his intellect lie disturbed
his whole character, in a word, is transformed Ton
often alas is sickness the consequence OF his own oI
y; seli-indugence the grabcatiOn OF appettes' me
eXhaustng toll of avarce the feverish lehors Tor hu
man applause, all lproduce their banetul eHec's "P1
tie Constitution. But to the medical attendant the
moral aspects not to have any influence upon his
skill or his cares.
| Atthe best human nature is but weak This is the
first truth for a medical man to learn; and in what
way this weakness is exhibited the phlanthr0pc
heart will feel that 1t is pleasure as well as duty,
to relieve bodily intrmities, whenever ana however
thew appear. This is the higher and nobler view OF
medical science 1t deYotes 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 disagreeabe But he IS reward
ed by the lofty satsacto of feeling that althor gh
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 NE
richest return for its labors.
OF all the affections that aiict man, there is no
one more terrible in its consequences thdn SYPHILIS
Dreadful as it is to the person who st contracts It,
rightfu frequently are its ravages in 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 blotches and sores with
wrinkled faces having the appearance Of old aga
and is probable that every particle OF the living or
ganism 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.
ScRoFULl, 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, rs far as practicable, &c
Eradicate Syphitis from the World Would it moi
seem that disease prevalent and so drefu, ought
TO excite the Seepest interest among the medical men
both respects its true pathology and its treatme Il
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 o. checking il and preventing any future evil
consequences Is il enough for him to say TO the i'm
aginatiOn the disease Is oathsOm one that IL Is
treat? Such an excuse may, probably, satisfy him
who has 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 no subject that he
thinks unworthy of investigation and study. lie can
not be satisfied with n scattering knowledge OF what
he is bound to understand we'll He feels resting upon
him double obllglton-one the duty he owes 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 reputation
for atiainments and skill. There some practition-
ers, indeed there many, 10hO ignorant ofUen-
eredt Diseases because they fancy it is not respecta
bic to treat lem.-0f all such persons it may be as
serted beyond dispute, that their ignorance is not
confined to these diseases alone; 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 respectdbiLHy Of
diseases All maadies alike fit subjects for his
and reflection; and the only distinction that he
is that which arises from their greater
or less gravity. Circumstances may, indeed, direct
his practice in particular channel that his bust
ness will be inclined to class Of Affections, rather
than another but this is not because he regards
as beneath orunworthy his notice.
c II. ToZER, NJ. D.