2 weeks old: bronchitis; a puny, fragile infant
grammar school: a thin, pale, weakly lad, seldom without a cold
high school: troublesome hacking cough
late 1901: pneumonia in Eastwood. April 1902: convalescence at Skegness
November–December 1911: pneumonia in Croydon. Examined by William Addey.
January 1912: convalescence at Bournemouth
March 1912: ill, pale and thin when he first meets Frieda in Nottingham
June 1913: spits blood in Kent
c. April 1915: examined by David Eder
November 1915: “far gone with consumption” in Hampstead
January–February 1916: seriously ill in north Cornwall. Examined by Maitland Radford
June 1916: diagnosed as tubercular and rejected for military service
July 1916: admits consumption in a letter from west Cornwall
February–March 1919: influenza in Ripley, Notts. Examined by Mullan-Feroze
April 1922: extremely ill with malaria in Kandy, Ceylon
August 1924: spits blood in Taos. Examined by Dr. Martin
February 1925: 1st hemorrhage, in Oaxaca. Examined by José Larumbe. Sidney Uhlfeder, in Mexico City, diagnoses TB and gives him a year or two to live
February 1926: 2nd hemorrhage, in Spotorno
July 1927: 3rd hemorrhage, in Scandicci
September 1927: examined by Hans Carossa and Max Mohr in Irschenhausen
June 1928: forced to leave hotel in St. Nizier, France, because of TB
October–November 1928: 4th hemorrhage, in Port-Cros
July 1929: 5th hemorrhage, in Florence. Examined by Professor Giglioli and in September 1929 by Max Mohr in Rottach, Germany
September 1929: extremely ill from disastrous arsenic and phosphorus “cure” in Baden-Baden
January 1930: examined in Bandol by Andrew Morland, who gives him three months to live, without a sanatorium
February 1930: losing weight in Bandol; enters Ad Astra sanatorium in Vence
March 2, 1930: dies in Villa Robermond, Vence