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===Travelling and ill health=== Having left his training at the hospital, suffering from a succession of colds, and unhappy with living in damp rooms in London, Keats moved with his brothers into rooms at 1 [[Well Walk]] in the village of [[Hampstead]] in April 1817. There John and George nursed their [[tuberculosis|tubercular]] brother Tom. The house was close to Hunt and others of his circle in Hampstead, and to [[Samuel Taylor Coleridge|Coleridge]], respected elder of the first wave of Romantic poets, then living in [[Highgate]]. On 11 April 1818, Keats reported that he and Coleridge had taken a long walk on [[Hampstead Heath]]. In a letter to his brother George, he wrote that they had talked about "a thousand things, ... nightingales, poetry, poetical sensation, metaphysics."<ref>Motion (1997), pp. 365–366.</ref> Around this time he was introduced to [[Charles Wentworth Dilke]] and James Rice.<ref>Motion (1997), pp. 364 and 184.</ref> In June 1818, Keats began a walking tour of Scotland, Ireland and the [[Lake District]] with [[Charles Armitage Brown]]. Keats's brother George and his wife Georgiana accompanied them to [[Lancaster, Lancashire|Lancaster]] and then continued to [[Liverpool]], from where they migrated to America, living in [[Ohio]] and [[Louisville, Kentucky]], until 1841, when George's investments failed. Like Keats's other brother, they both died penniless and racked by tuberculosis, for which there was no effective treatment until the next century.<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/1922/07/30/archives/tracing-the-keats-family-in-america-tracing-the-keats-family-in.html "Tracing the Keats Family in America"] ''New York Times'' Koch 30 July 1922. Retrieved 29 January 2010.</ref><ref>Motion (1997), p. 494.</ref> In July, while on the [[Isle of Mull]], Keats caught a bad cold and "was too thin and fevered to proceed on the journey."<ref>Letter of 7 August 1818; Brown (1937)</ref> After returning south in August, Keats continued to nurse Tom, so exposing himself to infection. Some have suggested this was when tuberculosis, his "family disease", took hold.<ref name="Neill418">O'Neill and Mahoney (1988), p. 418.</ref><ref name="autogenerated3">Motion (1997), p. 290.</ref><ref>Zur Pathogenie der Impetigines. Auszug aus einer brieflichen Mitteilung an den Herausgeber. [Müller's] Archiv für Anatomie, Physiologie und wissenschaftliche Medicin. 1839, p. 82.</ref> "[[Tuberculosis|Consumption]]" was not identified as a disease with a single infectious origin until 1820. There was considerable stigma attached to it, as it was often tied with weakness, repressed sexual passion or masturbation. Keats "refuses to give it a name" in his letters.<ref>De Almeida (1991), pp. 206–207; Motion (1997), pp. 500–501.</ref> Tom Keats died on 1 December 1818.
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