Daily national Democrat., 1859-03-27
A PRACTICAL TREATISE on vESEREAL,
Dr. q. H. TOZER, sacramento.

There are no maladles 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.
rs mt dcal men, it is our business to loo; at dis
ease merely as it affects life md hedhi and our et
forts directed not to the reformation Of man "
cious propenstes but to the mitigation of his bodily
suferincs. II is in this abstract sense we write OF
TeaeyedL facti0Hs 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 limi ed to
those subjects that most agreeable to his tastes
70 become enlighted practitioners it is as essential
that he should be liberal and ardent onei and ahec-
tons in 7'- nature repulsve to delicate sensbilites
be regarded in other Light than as morbid pheno-
mcna af the LIVING BODY.
The whole business Of the medical art when we
take low view of it and regard it only as labor, IS
disagreeRbe In any form disease Is unpl
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 as
ease the attractive parts of mans nat%re are couded
ovcr his pride is humbled; his intellect lie disturbed
his hole character, in a word, is transformed. TOO
often alas, is sickness the consequence OF his own io
~; sef-indugence, the graticaton of appettes, The
eXhausting toll Of avarce the everish lebors Tor hu-
man applause, all produce their paneul enecls "p1't
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 learn; and In what
ever way this weakness is exhibited the phanthropic
heart will feel that it is pleasure as well as Duty
to relieve bodily nfrmities, whenever and however
thev 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
ator of much that is disagreeabe But he is reward
ed bv the lofty satisfaction of feeling that ahor gh
personal comfort is sacrificed and sympathy Is often
painfully excited vet il is through such road that
Benevoerce has the widest scope, and meets witt she
richest return for its abors.
OF all the affections that aIlict man. there is no
one more terrible in its consequences han SYPHILIS
Dreadful as il is to the person who rst contracts it,
frghtful frequently are its ravages Ia his constu-
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 hideousy manifested
to the eve; covered with blOtches and sores with
wrnkled faces having the appearance of old aga
and it is probable that every particle OF the living or
ganism is equally tainted with the poison. When such
condition exists 1t cannot be doubted that life will
too frequently be short and full OF pain.
ScRoFULA, CONSUMPTION, and other diseases that are
sometimes hereditary, in many cases. its fruit
and way to stay the devastating march Of those
fearful fatal affections, is, rs far as practicable, to
Eradicate SYphiiS from the World Would it not
that disease prevalent and so diretul ought
to excite the deepest interest among the medical men,
both respects its true pathology and its treatmertr
What he offer for his deficiency, who calls
himself a 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 i'm
agnaton the disease is loathsom one that il is n
treat? Such an excuse may, probably, satisfy him
who has better, but will not satisfy scie ce nor
philanthropy.
Whoever undertakes the medic Il profession with n
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. He can
not be satisfied with smattering knowledge of what
he is bound to understand we'll He feels resting upon
him double obgation-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 atanments and skill. There practition-
ers, indeed there many, 1oo are ignorant ofUen
eredL diseases because they fancy is not respecta
bic to treat them.-0f 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 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 reSpectdGH6y o.
diseases. All maadies 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
ness will be inclined to one class of Affections, rather
than another but this is not because he regards
as beneath or unworthy his notice.
G II. TozER, VI. D.