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Rh be hindered from entering into the profession, it would be a favor to them, for they had much better stay out of it than starve in it. Throughout the United States, the profession is everywhere crowded; physicians are quite too numerous, and under existing circumstances a prudent young man had much better select some other more reliable occupation than to embark in the precarious business of medicine. No other class of men are so poorly paid for their services as physicians. Reckoning the cost of a medical education, the same amount of capital invested in almost any respectable business would prove more profitable.

It is said that when a young man inquired of the Hon. Daniel Webster as to the prospects in the profession of law, Mr. Webster replied, "The profession is quite full down here, but there is room enough up yonder." It is always so in medicine; the lower ranks of the profession are ever quite full, but there is always "room enough up yonder." In the present condition of things, no young man should select the profession of medicine as the business of his life,