MY YEAR OF DARWIN (#YEAROFDARWIN)
7 Jan 2014: "saw two very bad operations, one on a child, but rushed away before they were complete" Darwin autobiography
Darwin enrolled as a medical student at Edinburgh University. Bored by his anatomy professor and disgusted by dissection, it was not looking good for his career as a doctor. Moreover, he was figuring out that his inheritance would allow him to live comfortably without working so there was little incentive to push himself at his studies. One could not be idle but there was no rush.
After watching, almost watching, an operation on a child, Darwin never returns to the surgery room. At the time patients were held down and cut open "before the blessed days of chloroform."
Hot water pipe is frozen. Blow driers going like mad on the basement pipes. Coffee maker works and the internet is functional. We're good.
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