The Nevada journal., 1859-08-12
A Practical Treatise on vExEREAL.

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There malades to which the human family 10
| liable of Deeper Importance either in medca
moral point of vew than those arising from impure
| sexual intercourse.
As medical men, business to look at diseases
merely asst affects Life and Health and efforts
directed, not to the reforma alton of mans vic
pentes but to the mitigation ofhis BODILY SUFFERING
II is in this abstract that write of Vcnerea AZ
feeons And it is in this the Doctor should
address himself their study. If his feelings allowed
to influence his professional pursuits, his qualifications
will necessarily be limited to those subjects that arc
most agreeabe his To an enlighte ned
Practitioner is essential that he should libera
and ardent and affections in their repulsive
to delicate sen:ibties must be regarded in other
light than morbid phenome ma OF the Living Body.
The whole business of the Medical art when e take
low view of and regard it only labor disagrec-
ableone. In any form. disease is unpleasant look
upon. The sick chamber affords pleasant sights
The physi is made the witness both pain
| and moral inirmity. Struck by disease the attras
tive part of mans nature clouded his pride
Is humoIed: ms lhtellect Is disturbed his wholn
character, in word is trans formed Too often alas,
is sickness the consequence of his own folly selfn
dulgence, the qualification ofappetitcs the exhaust
ing toll ofavarice, the feversh labcrs for human a
plause, all produce their bancful effects upon the
stution. Brit to the medical attendant the moral
pect OF these facts to have any upon
| his skill or his .'
At the hest human nature is but weak. Thi. is the
first truth for medical man to learn and in what
ever way this weak is exhibited, the philanthro
phic heart will feel that it is a pl. asure, well
| duty, TO relieve bodily infrmties. whenever and
however they appear This is the higher and nobler
view of medical science 1t devotes itself the mti-
cation of pain, the abatement of disease the
spectator OF much that is disagreeabe. But he is
warded by the lofty e although
personal comfort is sacrificed and sympathy is often
painfully excited, yet it is through such road that
| Benevolence has the widest scope and meets with
| the richest return for its labors.
In this view all diseases alike the faithful
physician He makes no distinction between the
that have developed them. He sees man suffering
and all his facilities employed to give him health.
Disease he regards as misfortune, and not q pun
shmen
Ofall the affections that afict man. there is no one
more terrible than SYPHILIS
Dreadful it is to the person who contracts IL
fright frequently are its ravaes in his constiu
tion, ending occasionally, destruction vet is dis
ease fdcepcr interest and more te be lamentcd when
it Is transmitted to offspring Children come into
the world with the disease hideously the eve CO.
vered with blotohes and with wrinkled faces.
having the appearance of old age; and it probable
that every particle ofthe living organism is equally
tainted with the poison When such a condition ex-
sts it cannot be doubted that life will too frequently
! sCORFULA CONSUMPTION, and other disease.
that are sometimes hereditary are in many cases. its
frulti and one way to stay the devastating march Of
those fearuly fatal affections is far practicable
| to ERADICATE SYPHILIS FROM THE WORLD
Would ii not seem that disease prevalent and so
dreul, ought to excite the deepest interest among
the medical men, 10th respects its true pathology
and its treatment What he offer for his
deficiency who calls himsef surgeon, and vet doe.
not recognize the disease when he it, and ia
ignorant ofthe best Of checking it and prevent
ing any future evil consequences Is it enough for
him tatto the gnation the disease loath-
some one : that is disreputable one to have and a
disgusting to treat? Such an excuse may, pro-
badly satisfy him who has nobeter but will not satis
| f! science nor philanthropy.
| Whoever undertakes the medical profession with n
true spirit, will rest contented with KNOWN
only limited part of it, There is object that g
thinks unworthy of tigation and study he can
not be satisfied with smattering knowledge of what
| he is bound to understand well. He feels resting
upon him double oblig ation-one, the duty he oN
to the public. to whom he announces that he cual
| fed member of noble profession f; the other Tho
duty he owes to himself to make and maintain n re
putation for attanments and skill. There are smne
practitioners, indeed there many, are Ignorant
otsereral dcases because they fancy is not fespect
able to treat them Of all such persons it nav be as
serted beyond dispute that their ignorance is not
confined 70 these diseases alone they will be found
fcient in all other points and are not properly oai
fed for the responsibilities they have ssuncd Vino
ever mas Just appreciatIhmee o.tO ical art will
not know difference in the respectoby Of diseases
All maadies alike fit subjects fer his care and "a
Election; and the only distinction which he acknov-
ledges, is that cIqharses from tn greater or less
gravity. Circumstance m1y indeed, direct his prac-
tice in particular channel that his business VIII
be inclined class of ctons rather than ano-
ther but this is not because he regards some as be
| meath unworthy of his notice
| Quackery has profted by the neglect thatyenere. al
diseases have experienced and it is notorious that
pretenders have secnred large share OF such Irac-
tice. 1t is time for the profession free itself om
thisreproach. The welfare of societys deeply con
ccrned nthis it possibly be with any other dis
| ease that affcts the human family
| c. II TOZFR MD