The lecture this evening on "Medicine as a Profession," is sure to be interesting and valuable, if we may judge from the circumstance that it is to be delivered by one who has won high esteem and well-deserved success both in practicing and in teaching medicine. The medicine, as a profession, is every year receiving more attention, and it has already gained for itself a position among the highest and noblest callings open to young men. But with the increasing dignity and worth, the difficulty of success has also increased. Not every one can now make a living, much less a name, as an M. D., and the able doctor of forty or fifty years ago would be unable to compete with the doctor of to-day. Mental power and scholarly attainment, while they are demanded more and more in all professions, seem to be especially demanded nowadays in the profession of medicine. Would-be doctors may well attend the lecture to-night, and may expect to hear something worth hearing from one who has had the experience of Dr. Edes.