ABSTRACT

John Keats died of consumption in Italy on 23 February 1821. He was treated both in London and in Rome by eminent physicians who have over time been criticized for failing to diagnose that Keats had pulmonary tuberculosis. The evidence for this censure, from the letters of Keats and his companions, along with the publications of Dr James Clark, his physician in Rome, is reviewed and the contemporary treatment of consumption in the early part of the nineteenth century is analysed. We argue that Keats’s doctors have been unfairly castigated by modern scholars and that in fact they applied the medical advice for the treatment of consumption that was available at that time.

摘要

约翰济慈于 1821 年 2 月 23 日在意大利死于消费。他在伦敦和罗马接受了著名医生的治疗，随着时间的推移，这些医生因未能诊断出济慈患有肺结核而受到批评。从济慈和他的同伴的信件以及他在罗马的医生詹姆斯·克拉克博士的出版物中，对这一谴责的证据进行了审查，并分析了 19 世纪早期对消费的当代治疗。我们认为济慈的医生受到现代学者的不公平谴责，事实上他们应用了当时可用的医学建议来治疗消费。