Daily national Democrat., 1859-04-06
A PRACTICAL TREATISE ON vRSEREAL,
DIR. G. III. 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, 1t Is our business to look at dis
ease merely as It affects life and hedlt and our ef
forts are directed not to the reformation OF mans vi
cous propenstes, but to the mitigation of his bodily
sufTerirgs 1t in this abstract sense we write Of
TeneredE affections. And it is IN this sense that the
Doctor should address himself to their study. II his
feelings are allowed to influence his professional pur
suits, his qualifications will necessarily be limited to
those subjects that most agreeable TO his tastes
TO become enlghted practitioner 1t as essential
that he should be liberal and ardent one and alice
tons, in ie'- nature repusve to dehcate sensDtesi
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 it and regard only as labor, is
disagreeabe 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 couded
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 own fol-
ly; sendulgence, the qualification of appettes, the
exhausng toll of avarce. the feverish ebors for hu-
man applause, all produce their baneful effects 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 learn; and in what
ever way this weakness is exhibited the phanthrOpc
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to relieve bodily infrmities, whenever and however
thev appear This is the higher and nobler view OF
medical science 1t devotes itselfto 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 by the lofty satisfaction Of feeling that althorgh
personal comfort is sacrificed and sympathy is often
painfully excited, vet it is through such road that
Benevolence has the widest scope, and meets witt he
| richest return for its labors
or all the affections that aflct man, there Is no
/ terrible in its than
Dreadful is to the person who fist contracts 1t,
Tighfu as frequently are its rayages in his cOnstitu-
ton, ending occasionally in destruction yet is a
disease of deeper interest, and more to be lamented
when transmitted to offspring. Children often come
into the world with the disease hdeOusly manifested
to the eye; covered with blotches and sores with
wrinkled faces, having the appearance OF old ago
and 1t is probable that every particle of the living
gansm 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 one way to stay the devastating march of those
fearful fatal Affections is far practicable, to
Eradicate Syphilis from the World Would it not
seem 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 can 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 ii enough for him to say to the i'm
disreputabe one to have, and disgusting to
treat? Such an excuse may, probably, satisfy him
who has BETTER but it will not satisfy scieLce
philanthropy
Whoever undertakes the medic Il profession with
true spirit, will never rest contented with knowing
only limited part of it. There is subject that he
thinks unworthy of investigation and study. He can
not be satisfied with snattering knowledge of what
he is bound to understand we'll lie feels resting upOn
him double oblgation-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 attainments and skill There some practition-
ers indeed there many, lOhO are ignorant ofUen-
eredI Diseases because they fancy is not respecta
bic to treat themOf all such persons it may be as
serted beyond dispute, that their ignorance is not
confined to these diseases GI0Ae 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 reSpectdbIity of
diseases. All maladies alike fit subjects for his
care and reflection; and the only distinction that he
acknowledges is that which arises from their greater
less gravity. Circumstances may, indeed, direct
his practice in particular channel, that his bus-
will be inclined to class of Affections, rather
than another but this is not because he regards
as beneath or unworthy his notice.
G. II. TOZER, Nd.