Article ID: CBB920500897

A brand-new stethoscope for John Keats (2020)

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John Keats spent in Rome his last months looking for relief from the disease that was killing him: tuberculosis. The physician who took him in charge was Sir James Clark (1788-1870) who, during a stay in Paris in 1819, had become an early and strong supporter of Laennec’s stethoscope. He surely brought some version of it to Rome and most probably used it to auscultate Keats’ lungs. That was not sufficient to prevent the young poet’s death. Nonetheless, Keats became an unaware and unfortunate instrument to that first diagnostic step forward in the titanic medical struggle against “consumption”. As Clark stated in 1820, defending the stethoscope from critics: “To know the nature and extent of a disease is surely the first step in our progress to the adoption of rational means of cure.”

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Authors & Contributors
Gradmann, Christoph
Tai, Sara J.
Priani, Egidio
Handerer, Fritz
Man-Kong, Wong
Panova, Evgeniya
Concepts
Diagnosis
Medicine and society
Tuberculosis
Therapeutic practice; therapy; treatment
Medicine
Disease and diseases
Time Periods
19th century
20th century
20th century, early
18th century
Early modern
Modern
Places
Europe
Italy
Great Britain
United Kingdom
Hong Kong
Toronto (Ontario)
Institutions
Catholic University of Ireland (Dublin)
Royal Belfast Academical Institution
Great Britain. Royal Navy
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