John Keats anatomical and physiological notebook copy

Collection

Identifier: MSS 2/211

Scope and Contents

Notebook contains holograph notes made by John Keats while a pupil and dresser at Guy’s Hospital, London, probably during the winter of 1815-1816. The notes, on human anatomy and physiology, are taken from the lectures of Sir Astley Cooper. Notes on anatomy concern bones and ligaments. Notes on physiology divided into twelve lectures (lecture 9 missing) concern blood and blood-vessels, the nervous system, muscles, and absorption.

Type of reproduction--Photocopy (positive).; Place of reproduction--Copied at: Hampstead Central Library, Hampstead, England;; Date of reproduction--1923 Dec.

Dates

1815 - 1816

Biographical / Historical

John Keats, English poet, was born in London, England, on 29 or 31 Oct. 1795. He died of tuberculosis in Italy on 23 Feb. 1821. In 1810, Keats was articled to a surgeon, T. Hammond, in Edmonton for five years. The contract was broken in 1814 or 1815. He then continued his study of surgery in London, entering Guy's Hospital on 2 Oct. 1815. In 1816, Keats became a dresser at Guy's and on 25 July 1816 passed his licentiate at Apothecaries' Hall. During the winter of 1816-1817, he turned his attention to poetry and abandoned medicine.

Extent

1 volume

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Ownership and Custodial History

The original John Keats notebook was bequeathed to the Hampstead Central Library by Sir Charles Wentworth Dilke; the Keats Museum adjoins the library, and the volume is preserved there. In 1923, Sir William Hale-White was permitted to reproduce the notebook photographically; he then presented copies to several institutions in Great Britain and the United States.

Publications About Described Materials

Forman, Maurice Buxton, ed. John Keats's Anatomical and Physiological Note Book : Printed from the Holograph in the Keats Museum, Hampstead. London: Oxford University Press, 1934.