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Today marks the day in 1821 when John Keats, the Romantic poet who waxed on Grecian urns and nightingales, succumbed to tuberculosis. He was only 25. John was thought to have contracted the...
Apr 1, 2004 · 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 ...
- Hillas Smith
- 2004
Jul 14, 2021 · In the early 1840s, believing the air was therapeutic, Kentucky doctor John Croghan ran a consumption sanatorium deep underground
- Leo Deluca
Aug 1, 2019 · John Keats had nursed a mother dying of Tuberculosis on his school breaks, when he was only 14. Some years later, when he was apprenticed as a medical student, he had also nursed his brother Tom until his early death.
- Mary Ann Rockwell
- 2020
Abstract. John Keats was an English Romantic poet born in the late 1700ʼs. Among his better known works are ʻOde on a Grecian Urnʼ and ʻOde to a Nightingaleʼ. Keats suffered a series of hemorrhages in 1820 and died at the age of 25 from tuberculosis.
John Keats (31 October 1795 – 23 February 1821) was an English poet of the second generation of Romantic poets, along with Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley. His poems had been in publication for less than four years when he died of tuberculosis at the age of 25.
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Feb 22, 2021 · On Feb 23, 1821, John Keats died of tuberculosis in Rome, Italy. James Clark, the resident English doctor who later became physician to Queen Victoria, together with a colleague named Dr Luby and an Italian surgeon, opened the body.
