Daily national Democrat., 1859-03-08
A PRACTICAL TREATISE on vESEREAL,
DR.. g. III. TOxER, sacramento.

There are no maadies to which the human family is
liable of deeper importance, either in medical oi
moral point of view than those arising from Impure
sexual intercourse.
AS deal men, it is our business to look at dis
merely it affects t{f6 dH8 hedItt, and our ef
forts directed, not to the reformation of mans vi
cious propensites, but to the mitigation of his bodily
suTerugs. 1t is in this abstract sense write of
TeneiedL A66ctiOaS And it is in this that the
Doctor should address himself to their stddy II his
feelings allowed to influence his professional pur
suits, his qualifications will necessarily be m ed to
those subjects that most agreeable to his tastes.
To become an enghed practitioner, it is as essential
that he should be liberal and ardent one; and aec
tons in nature repusive to delicate senibilities,
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 it only labor, is a
disagreesble 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 nat2re are couded
over; his pride humbed his intellect lie disturbed
his whole character, in word, is transformed Too
often alas is sickness the consequence Of his own fol-
"; findulgence the qualification Of appettes, the
eXhaustng toll of avarice the everish abors for hu-
man applause, all produce their baneul effects Up0n
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 a medical man to learn; and in what
ever way this weakness is exhibited the phanthrOpiC
heart will feel that it is pleasure well as duty,
thew appear. This is the higher and nobler view oil
medical science. 1t devotes itself to the mitigation OF
paiu, the abatement of disease the restoration to
heal H.. In doing this, its minister must be the spec
tator of much that is dsagreeahe. But he is reward
ed by the lofty satsactio of feeling that althor Oh
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 Che
richest return for its labors.
OF all the affections that afIct man, there is nc
one terrible in its consequences than SYPHILIS
I N. . 20, ,tthn Etef egpfe sfa
frghtfu as frequently its ravages in his consttu
ton ending occasionally in destruction yet it 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
wrinkled 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 suci
a condition exists 1t cannot be doubted that life viii
too frequently be short and full ofpan.
ScRoFULA CONSUMPTION, and other diseases that are
sometimes hereditary are in many cases, its fruit
and one way to stay the devastating march of thost
fearful fatal affections, is as far as practicable, tC
Erddicdte Sgph{ttS from the World Would it no
seem that disease prevalent and so direfu ough
to excite the eepest interest among the medical men
both respects its true pathology and its treatment
What excuse can he offer for his deficiency who ca
himself surgeon, and yet does not recognize
the disease when he it, and ignorant of the bes
means OF checking it and preventing any future evi
consequences Is enough tor him to say to the i'm
aginaton the disease is l0ahsOm one that it is
treat? Such excuse may, probably, satisfy him
who has better, but it will not satisfy scetce MOI
philanthropy.
Whoever undertakes the medic Il profession with a
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 a smatfering knowledge of what
he is bound understand well. He feels resting upon
him double obgation-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 reputation
for attachments and skill. There practtion-
ers, indeed there many, 1CtO are ignorant ofUe
eFedL diseases because they fancy it is not respecta-
bic to treat tnem.Of all such persons may be
serted as beyond dispute, that their ignorance is not
confined to these diseases alone; 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 respectdbIHy O
diseases All maladies alike fit subjects for his
care and reflections and the only distinction that he
acknowledges is 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 class Of Affections, rather
than another but this is not because he regards some
as beneath or unworthy his notice
c. II. T0ZER, NJ. D.