Doctor's mistakes to blame for Keats's agonising end, says new biography
Dr James Clark's series of misdiagnoses left poet starving and in agony, argues study of Joseph Severn
The agonies of John Keats's final months in Rome were partly the result of his doctor's misdiagnoses, according to a new biography.
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Monday, 26 October, 2009
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