TO BE A DOCTOR.

Abstract

Of all callings, medicine and surgery seems to me the noblest. What occupation can be more elevating to its followers, or more benificial to mankind, than the alleviating of human suffering? The work is hard and the pay none too good; but the life of a medical man is active and stirring, and both the study and practice of the science have a singular fascination for those who follow it con amore . And not only so, but the scope of its discoveries and of its application is constantly expanding, so that there is always something new to sustain the interest. There are other professions which by the survival of a rather foolish conventionalism, occupy a higher social grade, and in which th pecuniary return is greater, but to my mind none are so elevated and so elevating as this.—Anon. The Choice of a Profession. —Many young men, just completing