Daily national Democrat., 1859-02-17
A PRACTICAL TREATISE or yESEREAL,
Dr. G. LI. TONREE. sacramento

Dr. G. EH. EOA HEks SacFetheHtO'
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.
ns IN, dical men, It is business to look at dis
ease merely as il affects Efe dRd heath; and our e-
forts are directed not to the reformation of mans Vi
cious propcnScs, but to the mitigation of his bodily
sulvriugs. 1t in this abstract sense we write OF
TtReyeW 1fectioHS. And it is in this sense that the
Doctor should address himself to their stddy II his
feelings allowed to influence his professional pur-
suits his qualifications will necessarily be limi ed to
those subjects that are most agreeable to his tastes
70 become al enlghtcd practitioner, it is as essential
that he should be liberal and ardent one; and alice
tons in nature repulsve to delicate sen Utilities
be regarded in other light than as morbid phen"-
mena af the LIVING BODY.
Th, Whole business of the medical art, when we
take allow view Of it and regard it only as labor is
disagreesble one In any form, disease is pleasant
to look upon. The sick chamber affords no pleasant
sights The physician is made the witness both Of
physical pain and moral inhrmity, struck ny dis
eas the attractive parts Of mans natcre are couded
ovcr his pride is humbed; his intellect ie disturbed
his whole character, in word, is transformed. Too
often alas is sickness the consequence OF his own 1o
y; self indulgence, the qualification of appetltes' The
exAustng toll OF avarce the feyerlsh pb0rs Tor hu-
man applause, all produce their banclu effects ~p0n
the Constitution. But to the medical attendant, the
moral aspects are not to have any influence upon MS
skill or his cares.
Attic 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 phanthropic
heart will feel that it is pleasure aN well as duty,
to relieve bodily nirmities, whenever and however
thev appear This is the higher and nobler 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 disagreeabe. But he is reward
ed by the lofty satisfaction of feeling that alhor gh
personal comfort is sacrificed and sympathy is often
painully excited, yet it is through such road that
Beneyoence has the widest scope, and meets with She
richest return for its lGbors.
ORAL the affections that anct man, there is no
one terrible in its consequences than SYPHILIS.
Dreadful it is to the person who fist contracts 1t,
rghtlul frequently are lis ravages in his consttu-
ton, ending occasionally IN destruction yet it is q
disease OF deeper interest, and more to be lamented
when transmitted to offspring Children often cone
into the world with the disease hidcousy manifested
to the eye covered with blotches and with
wrinked faces, having the appearance Of old age
and it is probable that every particle of the living or
glnsm is equally tainted with the poison When such
condition exists, it cannot be doubted that life Will
too frequently be short and full ofpan.
ScRoFUL, CONSUMPTION, and other diseases that are
sometimes hereditary are in many cases, its fruit ;
AMI one way to stay the devastating march of those
fearful fatal affections, is far as practicable, to
Etddicdte SypdUis from the World Would it not
seem that disease prevalent and direfu ought
10 excite the eepest 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 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 it is
diSreputable one to have, and disgusting to
treaty Such an excuse may probably, satisfy him
who has better, but it viii not satisfy seize 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. lie can
not be satisfied with sr:attering knowledge of what
he is bound TO understand well. He feels resting upon
him double obllgaton-one, the duty he 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 a reputation
for attainnents and skill. There practition-
ers, indeed there many, lch0 are ignorant QfUen-
eredL Diseases because they fancy is not respecta
bic to treat taem.-Of all such persons it may be
serted as beyond dispute that their ignorance is not
confined to these diseases dtOae 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 reSpectdbit0y OF
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
or less gravity. Circumstances may, indeed, direct
his practice in particular channel that his busi-
will be inclined to class of Affections rather
than another but this is not because he regards some
as beneath unworthy his notice.
G. II. TOZER, NJ. D.