![]() ![]() Thomas's and had successfully acquired his Licentiate of the Society of Apothecaries, giving him the approximate status of a contemporary medical family practitioner. ![]() ![]() Almost a year earlier, John had completed his medical studies at the combined hospitals of Guy's and St. John, almost 22 years old, appeared to be in excellent health and in good spirits, despite the fact that Tom seemed vaguely unwell and that he was concerned for George, who was soon to marry and to emigrate to the United Sates. In the month of May in 1817, Keats was in Hampstead with his brothers Tom and George. The time sequence is crucial in this case, as it is in the elucidation of any difficult infection. So what can be strange in the case of Keats? That John Keats died of tuberculosis is not in doubt, but even with the advantage of almost 200 years of scientific advances-Koch's discovery of the pathogenic bacillus in 1882, the introduction of radiography in 1895, and the introduction of effective chemotherapy and useful vaccines, all of which have led to a fuller and better understanding of the disease process-there still remain some curious, even anomalous features in the presentation and the course of John Keats's tuberculosis. Strange? What could be more typical than a young man, wasted, feverish, racked with cough and hemoptyses-dying? Indeed, the very picture evokes the popular image of some romantic poets of the 19th Century Keats's tragic death at the age of 25 contributed to that image. ![]()
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