Daily national Democrat., 1859-02-04
PRACTICAL TREATISE on vESEREAL,
DIR. c. II. TOZER, sacramento.


There are no maladies TO which the human family is
liable of deeper importance, either in a medical or
moral point of view, than those arising from impure
sexual intercourse.
AS mt dcal men, it is our business to look at dis
merely it affects life and heath; and our eff
forts directed, not to the reformation of mans vi
cious propenses, but to the mitigation OF his bodily
sulferGgs 1t is in this abstract sense we write of
VeneredE A6ectionS 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 limited to
those subjects that most agreeable to his tastes
To become enlighted practitioner, it is as essential
that he should be liberal and ardent one; and aiIec
tions in e~ nature repulsive to delicate senibties
be regarded in other light than as morbid pheno
mena af the LIVING BODY.
The whole business of the medical art, when
take low view of it and regard it only as labor, is
dsagreesbe 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 infrmity, Struck ny dis
ease the attractive parts of mans nat@re are clouded
over his pride is humbled his intellect lie disturbed
his whole character, in word, is transformed. Too
often alas is sickness the consequence Of his fol
ly selfndulgence the qualification of appettes, the
exhaustng toll of avarice the feversh ebors Tor hu-
man applause all produce their baneiul effects upon
the Constitution. But to the medical attendant, the
moral aspects are 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
way this weakness is exhibited, the phianthroplc
heart will feel that it is pleasure as well as Duty
to relieve bodily infirmes, whenever and however
tkev appear This is the higher and nobler view OF
medical science 1t devotes tselft to the mitigation OF
| pau, the abatement of disease, the restoration to
health. In doing this its minister must be the spec
tator of much that is dsagreeable But he is reward
ed by the lofty satisfaction of feeling that althor gh
personal comfort is sacrificed and sympathy IS often
painfully excited vet it is through such road that
Benevoence has the widest scope and meets witt 3he
richest return for its abors.
OF all the affections that aillict man, there is no
one more terrible in its consequences than SYPHILIS.
Dreadful it is to the person who fist contracts it,
frghtful frequently are its ravages in his constu
ton ending occasionally an QeStfHcttOn yet IL IS
disease of deeper interest and 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
wrnkled faces, having the appearance OF old aga
and il is probable that every particle of the living or
ganism is equally tainted with the poison. When such
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 far practicable to
Er0djcdto SyphiIis from the World Would it not
seem that disease so prevalent ana so dlrefu, oug
to excite the teepest interest among the medical men,
both respects its true pathology and its treatmc =?
What excuse 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 it and preventing any future evil
consequences? Is it enough for him to say to the i'm
agination the disease is loathsom one that it is
disreputable one to have, and disgusting one to
treat? Such an excuse may, probably satisfy him
who has no BETTER but it will satisfy scie ce nor
philanthropy
Whoever undertakes the medic Il profession with a
true spirit, will never rest contened 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 smatterng knowledge of what
he is bound to understand we'll He feels resting upon
him double obllgation-one the duty he 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 attainments and skill. There practiton-
ers indeed there many, 1cb0 are ignorant ofUen-
eredL diseases because they fancy 1t is not respecta-
bic to treat t1em.-0f all such persons it may be
serted beyond dispute, that their ignorance is not
confined to these diseases di0Re 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 TeSpectdbiLHy Of
diseases. All maadies are alike fit subjects for his
and reflection; and the only distinction that he
acknowledges, 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.
c. II. TOZER, NJ. D.