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Keats the surgeon. (The Podium).

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From: American Scholar
Date: 20020922
Author:Haynes, Jean

Because he lost both his parents by the time he was fifteen, John Keats had to make his own way in the world. Apprenticed to a local surgeon-apothecary, he shelved the medicine jars, made the bandages, rolled the pills, polished the knives and scarifiers, and fed the leeches.

In 1815, just before his twentieth birthday, Keats registered at Guy's Hospital in London for surgical training. He was soon noticed by the great surgeon Astley Cooper, who had him appointed as a "dresser"--a medical student who assisted during operations in the hospital's skylit theatre, a hot, crowded ...

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