Daily national Democrat., 1859-04-07
A PRACTICAL TREATISE on vESEREAL,
Dr g. H. TOxEx. sacramento.


There are no maladies to which the human family Is
liable of deepor importance, either in melleal OF
moral point OF view, than those arising from iuPuie
sexual intercourse. . ~,
case merely it affects lte and hedtthj and our ell
forts are directed, not to the reformation OF man VI
cious propensitics, but to the mitigation oil ms Dody
suiTerrgs. 1t is in ths abstract sense we write OF
TcReredi ABectj0HS And 1t is IN tins sense that te
Doctor should address himself to their study IL ms
feelings ara allowed to influence his professional pur
snits his qualifications will necessarily be limited to
those subjects that most agreeable 10 ms tastes
To become an enlighed practitioner, 1t IS as essential
that he should be liberal and ardent one any n.ec
tions in ,asi- repusive to delicate sensiDues
be regarded in no other light than as morbid pheno-
mena af the LIVING BuDY.
/ The whole business of the medical art, when we
take allow view of it and regard it only as labor IS
disagreeabe one. In any FORM disease IS unpleasant
to look upon The sick chamber anords no PHEASANT
sights The physician is made the witness poth OF
physical pain and moral inhrmity, Struck NY dis-
ease the attractive parts of mans nat%re are clouded
over; his pride is humbed; his intellect lie disturbed
his whole character, in word, is transformed TOO
often alas is sickness the consequence oil MS own lol-
ly; sefndulgence, the qualification of appetites the
eNhausng toll of avarice the everish lGDOrs LOT hu-
man applause all produce their baneful effects upon
the Constitution But to the medical attendant tne
moral aspects not to have any influence upon MS
skill or his cares.
tthe best human nature is but weak This is the
first truth for a medical to learn; and in what
ever way this weakness is exhibited, the phanthropc
heart will feel that it is pleasure as wei as duy
to relieve bodily iufrmties whenever and however
they 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 10
health In doingths, its minister must be the spec
tator of much that is disagreeable But ne Is reward
ed by the lofty satisfaction of feeling that ahot g
personal comfort is sacrificed and sympathy often
painfully excited, yet it is through such road that
Benevolence has the widest scope, and meets WIZ me
| richest return for its labors.
or all the affections that alict man, there is no
one terrible in its consequences than SYPHILIS.
Dreadful it is to the person who hrst contracts H.
righfu frequently its ravages IN his c0nstltu-
ton, ending occasionally an destruction; yet 1t is
disease of deeper interest," more to be lamented
when transmitted to offspring. Children often come
into the world with the disease hideously manifested
/ to the eye; covered with blotches and sores with
wrinkled faces, having the appearance OF old age
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.
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 as practicable, to
Eradicate SyphaiS from the World Would it not
seem that disease prevalent and so direiul 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 ca's
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
agination the disease is oathsom one that it is a
dSreputable one to nave, ana q 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 it, There is no subject that he
thinks unworthy ofinvestigation of and study. lie can
not be satisfied with smatterng knowledge OF what
he is bound understand we'll. He feels resting upon
him double obllgaton-one, the duty he owes to the
public, to whom he announces that he is Il qualified
member of noble profession the other, the duty he
owes TO himself, to make and maintain a reputation
for attainnents and skill. There some practition-
ers, indeed there many, icO are ignorant QfUen
sre Diseases because they fancy it is not respecta
bic to treat tn hem.-Of all such persons it may be
serted beyond dispute that their ignorance is not
confined TO these diseases atone; 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 respectdb6Hy Of
diseases. All maadies alike fit subjects for his
care 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, so that his busi
ness viii be inclined to class Of Affections, rather
than another but this is not because he regards
as beneath or unworthy his notice.
C. IL. T0zER, NJ. D.