At Bedhampton I was unwell and did not go out of the Garden Gate but twice or thrice during the fortnight I was there ---Since I came back I have been taking care of myself --- I have been obliged to do so, and am now in hopes that by this care I shall get rid of a sore throat which has haunted me at intervals nearly a twelvemonth. (to Fanny Keats, 11 February, 1819) ( Letters 2.38)
キーツが長い間ひどい喉の痛みに苦しんでいたことが分かります。
Whenever you have an inflammatory fever never mind about eating. The day on which I was getting ill I felt this fever to a great height, and therefore almost entirely abstained from food the whole day. (to Fanny Keats, 6 February 1820) ( Letters 2, 251)
To-day I have left off the Medicine which I took to keep the pulse down and I find I can do very well without it, which is a very favourable sign, as it shows there is no inflammation remaining. (to Fanny Brawne, March? 1820) (2,278) Letters 1 317, 319)
I hear with great pain the dangerous accident that you have undergone, & Mr Gisborne who gives me the account of it, adds, that you continue to wear a consumptive appearance. This consumption is a disease particularly fond of people who write such good verses as you have done, and with the assistance of an English winter it can often indulge its selection; ---I do not think that young & aimiable poets are at all bound to gravity its taste; they have entered into no bond with the Muses to that effect But seriously (for I am joking on what I am very an{x}ious about) I think you would do well to pass the winter a{fte}r so {treme}ndous an accident in Italy, & (if you thinks it as necessary as I do) so long as you could find Pisa or its neighbourhood agreeable to you, Mrs Shelley unites with myself in urging the request, that you would take up your residence with us ---You might come by sea to Leghorn, (France is not worth seeing, & the sea air is particularly good for weak lungs) which is within a few miles of us. (from Shelley, 27 July 1820) (Letters 2. 310)
The chief part of his disease, as far as I can yet see seems seated in his Stomach. I have some suspicion of disease of the heart and it may be of the lungs, but of this say nothing to his friends as in my next I shall be able to give you something more satisfactory His mental exertions and application have I think bee the sources of his complaints The truth is, having come abroad for the purpose of restoring his health, every thing must be done to favor the ch{ange} of climate ---I mean that he shall buy or hire {by the} month a horse to ride out whenever the w{eather perm}its & so forth (from Dr. James Clark to?, 27 November 1820) (2.358)
when in an instant a Cough seized him, and he vomited near two Cup-fuls of blood. ---In a moment I got Dr Clarke, who saw the manner of it, and immediately took away about 8 ounces of blood from the Arms ---it was black and thick in the extreme. (Joseph Severn to Charles Brown, 17 December 1820) (Letters 2.361)
The blood broke forth again in like quantity the next morning ---and the doctor thought it expedient to take away the like quantity of blood --- the distended stomach keeps him in perpetual hunger or craving --- and this is augmented by the little nourishment he takes to keep down the blood Every day he raves that he will die from hunger --- and I was obliged to give him more than allowed--- You cannot think how dreadful this is for me --- the Doctor on the one hand tells me I shall kill him to give him more than he allows --- and Keats raves for more till I am in complete tremble for him.(Severn to Brown, 17 December 1820) (Letters 2.362)