Could Modern Doctors Have Saved John Keats? Six Months of Antibiotics Would Have Rewritten the Odes
A trained apothecary who knew exactly what his cough meant, a doctor who starved him on anchovies, and a poet dead at twenty-five with his best work already written ROME, 23 February 1821 – John Keats died at about eleven o’clock at night in a small rented room beside the Spanish Steps, with his friend, the painter Joseph Severn, holding him. He was twenty-five years old. In just over four…