Daily national Democrat., 1859-04-26
A PRACTICAL TREATISE ON vESEREAL,
DIR. C. HI. 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 medical men, il is our business to look at dis
ease merely as it affects life and hedL and our eff
forts are directed not to the reformation OF mans Vi
cious propensties but to the mitigation OF his bodily
suiferngs 1t is in this abstract sense we write Of
VenereH affections. 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 limited to
those subjects that most agreeable to his tastes
To become enghted practitioner is as essential
that he should be liberal and ardent one ana aec-
tions in ,2si- nature repulsve to delicate sensDtes,
be regarded in no other light than as morbid pheno
mena af the LIVING BODY.
The whole business Of the medical art, when we
take low view Of 1t and regard it only as labor, is
dsagreeable In any form, disease Is unpleasant
TO look upon. The sick chamber affords no pleasant
sights. The physician is made the witness both oil
physical pain and moral inhrmity, Struck NY dls-
ease the attractive parts of mans natre are couded
over his pride is humbed; his intellect lie disturbed
his whole character, in a word, is transformed. Too
often alas is sickness the consequence OF his own ol-
ly selfndulgence, the qualification Of appettes, The
exhaustng toll of avarice the feverish ebors for hu-
man applause, all produce their baneful 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-
ever way this weakness is exhibited, the phianthropc
q
to relieve bodily infrmities, whenever and however
thev appear. This is the higher and nober view Of
medical science. 1t devotes itself to the mitigation oil
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 ahor gh
personal comfort is sacrificed and sympathy IS often
painfully excited, yet it is through such road That
Benevolence hasthe widest scope, and meets witt he
richest return for its labOrs.
or all the affections that aflct man, there is no
! - sfa
Dreadful as il is to the person who first contracts it,
fghtful frequently its ravages in his constitu-
ton ending occasionally IN destruction yet 1t is
disease of deeper interest and more to be lamented
when transmitted to offspring. Children often come
into the world with the disease hdeousy manifested
to the eye covered with blotches and sores with
wrnkled faces having the appearance OF old aga;
and II 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 ofpain.
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, as far rs practicable to
E,TtiicGte Syphilis from the World Would it not
seem that disease prevalent and so direu ought
to excite the deepest interest among the medical men,
both as respects its true pathology and its reatmentS
What excuse can 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 1t enough for him to say to the i'm
disreputable one to have, and disgusting one to
treatY Such an excuse may, probably, satisfy him
who has better but II will not satisfy scleI ce nor
philanthropy.
Whoever undertakes the medic Il profession with
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 sn;atterng 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
yves to himself, to make and maintain reputation
or attainments and skill. There practtion-
rs, indeed there many loho are ignorant 0fUen-
real diseases, because they fancy 1t is not respeca
Die to treat them.0f all such persons it may be
ered as beyond dispute, that their ignorance is not
confined to these diseases alone; they will be found
deficient in all other points, and not properly
qualified for the responsibilities they have assumed.
Whoever has just appreciation of the medical art,
will not know any difference in the respectd6iLHy of
diseases All maladies 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
will be inclined to class Of Affections, rather
than anoher but this is not because he regards some
as beneath or unworthy his notice.
G. II. TOZER, NJ. D.