LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 16:8 August 2016
ISSN 1930-2940

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The Poet as a Healer: The Story of Dr. John Keats

Jagneswar Badhei, M.A., M.Phil., P.G.D.T.S.


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Abstract

At the age of fifteen Keats’s medical training commenced and Nature, thus, prepared him to be a physician. Keats was given excellent training by Dr. Hammond. He perhaps wanted to pursue the medical career because of the series of deaths of his family relatives. He was devoted in nursing his dying mother, at the same time he was also reading novels and other literary works. It was the death of his mother which ignited the intellectual fire inside him and made him a passionate reader, which in turn resulted in choosing the career of medicine. However, he was not free from the tragic visions of death till the end of his life.

Keywords: John Keats, medical, tragic view of life.

Medical Life of John Keats

The medical life of John Keats ranges from 1810 to 1816. After the return and death of his mother, Keats’s legal guardian Richard Abbey, an ill-behaved tea-merchant, paved him the way to the world of medicines. At the age of fifteen Keats’s medical training commenced and Nature, thus, prepared him to be a physician. The actual motifs of Keats behind pursuing the medical career, as Joseph Epstein says, are not known with any certainty. During the last years at Enfield School he was drawn towards science and also won two books as prize on scientific subject.

Apprenticeship

In the year 1810 Keats apprenticed under the Edmonton apothecary-surgeon Dr. Thomas Hammond. Keats was supposed to continue his study for five years. As a student of Dr. Hammond Keats made himself, to some extent, an expert in the basic skills such as vaccination for smallpox, bleeding patients with a lancet or with leeches, dressing wounds, setting bones, pulling teeth, identifying the symptoms of illness, making up pills, ointments, poultices, laudanum and other medicines.(Roe, 163)

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Jagneswar Badhei, M.A., M.Phil., P.G.D.T.S.
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Burla NAC College
Burla
Sambalpur 768 017
Odisha
India
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