Alyssa W's List: Poe's death

• Some accounts say he was found in a ditch
• say in a Baltimore tavern.
• Poe’s Oct. 7 death
• most popular of which include “the alcohol theory
• cooping theory.
• the cooping theory.
• biographies is the cooping theory
• believed that Poe was kidnapped by a political gang
• forced to vote
• while being “plied with liquor and beaten
• • theory
    the cooping theory
    belived poe was kidnapped(by politic gang)
    forced to vote many times while beaten and pilied w/ liquor
    explains Poes condition and fact he was wearing someone elses clothes
• “to explain Poe's condition and the fact that he was wearing someone else's  clothing.”
• Center offered yet one more theory on Poe’s  death: rabies. “No one can say conclusively that Poe died of rabies, since  there was no autopsy after his death,” said Dr. R. Michael Benitez, a  cardiologist at the University of Maryland
• to Poe’s  mysterious death: brain tumor. In an
• found accounts stating that Poe’s brain was completely intact and visible during  the exhumation
• first thing to liquefy,” she said, unless it was a brain tumor, which could  calcify

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• Iron Maiden, "Murders in the Rue Morgue" - The british metal band Iron  Maiden wrote a song on Edgar Allan Poe's "Murders in the Rue Morgue".
• • The Baltimore Ravens - Baltimore NFL team named after a famous poem  by Mr. Poe. (2)
• The Baltimore Ravens' mascots - Three people in raven costumes named  Edgar, Allan, and Poe.

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• October 3
• departing Richmond in the early morning of September 27
• intended destination
• Philadelphia,
• Dr. Snodgrass found Poe semiconscious
• dressed in cheap, ill-fitting clothes
• unlike Poe'
• many believe that Poe's own clothing had been stolen
• taken to Washington College Hospital
• days he passed from delirium to unconsciousnes
• not regain consciousness until the next morning
• no known reason he started calling loudly for "Reynolds
• October 7, Poe calmly breathed a simple prayer, "Lord, help my poor soul," and  died.
• "congestion of the brain."
• buried two days later
• No autopsy
• • theories on his death, very important!
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    Given credit for inventing detective stories
• as mostly known for his poems and short tales and his literary criticism
• given credit for inventing the detective story

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• may have died as a result of rabies
• complications of alcoholism
• eviewed by R.  Michael Benitez, M.D.,
• few days before his death point to a strong possibility that he had rabies
• 40 years old when he died on October 7, 1849
• in Richmond, he had proposed marriage to a woman who would have become his  second wife
• discovered lying unconscious
• a wooden plank outside Ryan's saloon on Lombard St. in Baltimore
• tremors and hallucinations
• at first he was delirious
• was calm and lucid
• then he slipped into a coma
• became combative, and required restraint
• into a delirious
• lapsed again
• Dr. J.F.C. Handel certified that the cause of Poe's death was "congestion of the  brain."
• trauma, vascular disorders in the brain, neurological problems such as epilepsy,  and infections
• possible causes for delirium
• Alcohol withdrawal is also a potential cause of tremors and delirium
• Poe had abstained from alcohol for six months before his deat
• no evidence of alcohol use when he was admitted
• unusual for patients suffering from alcohol withdrawal to become acutely ill
• then worsen and die,
• final stages of rabies
• is common for people to have periods of confusion that come and go
• wide swings in pulse rate
• All of that occurred for Poe
• respiration and temperature
• Dr. John J. Moran who cared for Poe in his final days
• symptoms is four days
• exactly the number of days Poe was hospitalized before his death
• Poe refused alcohol he was offered
• drank water only
• symptom of hydrophobia
• which is a classic sign of rabies
• may have gotten rabies from being bitten by one of his pets
• known to have cats
• people remembered being bitten in only 27 percent of those cases
• can have the infection for up to a year without major

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