So much for a career in medicine! Thus disgusted at the sight of corpses and hospitals, Berlioz was naturally inclined to seek a different track for a career. It was twenty-four hours before I recovered from the shock of this first impression, utterly refusing to hear that words anatomy, dissection, or medicine, and firmly resolved to die rather than enter the career which had been forced upon me. When I entered that fearful human charnel-house, littered with fragments of limbs, and saw the ghastly faces and cloven heads, the bloody cesspool in which we stood, with its reeking atmosphere, the swarms of sparrows fighting for scraps, and the rats in the corners gnawing bleeding vertebrae, such a feeling of horror possessed me that I leapt out of the window, and fled home as though Death and all his hideous crew were at my heels. Here is a passage from Berlioz's Memoirs describing his first impression of the dissecting in a hospital: In 1821, at the age of 18, Berlioz left his home for Paris to enter medical school. Since Berlioz's father was a well-respected physician, it was natural for him to wish the young Berlioz to enter the profession of medicine as well.
Hector Berlioz - Education and Passions Hector Berlioz Education and Passions
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