Darwin dropped out of medical school
From 1825 to 1827, Charles Darwin attended Edinburgh University's school of medicine before deciding not to continue. This is one of the interesting facts about Charles Darwin. He enrolled at Cambridge University in January 1828 to pursue his father's desire for him to become a clergyman by studying theology, mathematics, and the classics. 2 From October 1825 until June 1827, Charles studied at Edinburgh University. He didn't go to many lessons because he spent most of his time gathering plant and animal specimens. In his second year, he studied Natural History.
But why did Darwin leave medical school and why was he repulsed by dissection when he was a student? An explanation could be found in two letters from Erasmus Darwin. Erasmus wrote, "I am getting a little case-hardening in anatomy; for yesterday seeing a body and being the junior, they gave me a deal of the dirty work, and I was not in the least annoyed while an old physician also present kept leaving the room perpetually." This was on February 24, 1825, before Darwin went to Edinburgh. I doubt it would have been comfortable for your stomach, particularly before breakfast.
"The dissection is going on languidly; there is only one subject come in yet & there are six engaged before the one I have put my name down to: they are cheap compared to Edinburgh being £8′′8, which however when it comes to being multiplied three or four times is a heavy drawback," Erasmus wrote on 10 October 1826 from London. 7 Darwin thought a lot of his lectures were pointless and dull.
