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His early experience in London followed closely that of the earlier English Opium Eater until he was rescued by Wilfrid Meynell (1852\u20131948) who recognized his nascent literary flair. Thompson's poetry earned him respect and reputation and his prose brought him a reasonable income, but he never weaned himself from laudanum and he died of tuberculosis in 1907. Not every truant is honoured by a lapidary inscription in his alma mater, even though he may be overlooked in an arbitrary census.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1258\/jmb.2006.006075","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2013,5,31]],"date-time":"2013-05-31T21:34:53Z","timestamp":1370036093000},"page":"57-62","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":1,"title":["Francis Thompson (1859\u20131907): a medical truant and his troubled heart"],"prefix":"10.1258","volume":"16","author":[{"given":"Caoimhghin S","family":"Breathnach","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"179","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2008,2,1]]},"reference":[{"key":"bibr-JMB-06-75C1","volume-title":"Truants. The Story of Some Who Deserted Medicine Yet Triumphed","author":"Moynihan B","year":"1933"},{"key":"bibr-JMB-06-75C2","unstructured":"MeynellE. The Life of Francis Thompson. 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