Two pages from John Keats’s medical notebook

John Keats1815

City of London Corporation
London, United Kingdom

Keats’s only surviving notebook is filled with a scrawl of lecture notes and occasional doodles. Keats spent more years studying medicine than he was ever able to dedicate to poetry. His training at Guy’s Hospital was an intense timetable of lectures, dissection demonstrations, hospital ward rounds and surgery.

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Title: Two pages from John Keats’s medical notebook
Creator: John Keats
Date Created: 1815
Location: Keats House
Original Source: https://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/keats
Rights: City of London Corporation
Medium: Notebook

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