Daily national Democrat., 1859-02-19
A PRACTICAL TREATISE on vENEREAL,


! 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 affects lite and hedJth; and our ef-
forts are directed to the reformation of mans vi
cious propensies but TO the mitigation of his bodily
sueriugs 1t is in this abstract sense we write of
TeneredL AfectiORS 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 an enghed practitioner it is as essential
that he should be liberal ana ardent one ana aiec
ons in - nature repusive to delicate sen, 1bties,
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 oft and regard 1t only as labor, is
disagreeable one 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 intirmity, struck NY as
ease the attractive parts of mans na;re clouded
over his pride humbled; his intellect lie disturbed
his whole character, in word, is transformed. Too
often alas is sickness the consequence Of his own fol
ly self indulgence, the qualification of appettes the
exhaustng toll of avarce the eversh GborS Tor hu-
man applause, all produce their banefu ELECTS upon
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 earn and in what
ever way this weakness is exhibited the phanthropc
heart will feel that 1t is pleasure well as duty
to relieve bodily nfrmities, whenever and however
they appear This is the higher and nobler view of
medical science 1t devotes itself 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 disagreeabe But he is reward
ed by the lofty satsfactiol of feeling that athor gh
personal comfort is sacrificed and sympathy is often
painfully excited yet it is through such road that
Benevoence has the widest scope, and meets with She
richest return for its labors.
or all the affections that atlict man, there is no
one more terrible in its consequences than SYPHILIS.
Dreadful it is to the person who first contracts it,
frghtful frequently are its raVages in his consttu-
ton ending occasionally IN destruction yet it is a
disease of deeper interest, and to be lamented
when transmitted to offspring. Children often come
into the world with the disease hideously manifested
to the eve; covered with blotches and sores with
wrinkled faces, having the appearance of old ago
and it 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
ScRoFULt 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, far practicable, to
Eradicate Syphilis frOns the World Would it not
that disease prevalent and so direfu ought
TO excite the deepest interest among the medical
both respects its true pathology and its treatment?
What excuse 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
aginaon the disease is a loathsom one that it is
disreputable one to have, and disgusting one TO
treat? Such an excuse may, probably, satisfy him
who has better, but it will not satisfy scel
philanthropy.
Whoever undertakes the medic Il profession with
true spirit, will never rest contened with knowing
only limited part of it. There is subject that he
thinks unworthy of ofinvestgation and study. lie
not be satisfied with smatering knowledge of what
he is bound understand we'll He feels resting upon
him double oblgation-one, the duty he owes 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 q reputation
for attainments and skill. There practiton-
ers indeed there many, 1cO are ignorant 0fUen-
eredJ 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 not properly
qualified for the responsibilities they have assumed.
Whoever has just appreciation of the medical art,
will not know any difference in the reSpectdbiL3y 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
ur less gravity. Circumstances may, indeed, direct
his practice in particular channel that his bust
will be inclined to class Of Affections, rather
than another but this s not because he regards some
as beneath or unworthy his notice.
C. H. T0zER, NJ. D.