Edgar Allan Poe's 'Baltimore Sun'

The poet Edgar Allan Poe passed away (died) on a rainy night Oct. 7, 1849. A guy for working for the newspaper “Baltimore Sun” found Poe on Oct. 3 1849 on the streets of Baltimore in a gutter. The writer from the newspaper could easily tell that Poe was not in very good condition at all. When the man realized that Poe needed medical attention he rushed him to the Washington College Hospital. Once Poe arrived the doctors tried to figure out what could have happened to him, and what was wrong with him. Poe fought his hardest for four very long night in the hospital before he finally died on Oct. 7. It’s a shame that such a great poet and author died. Unfortunately after Poe’s death in the Washington College Hospital no doctors or nurses examined

“According to E.P.’s supervising physician, Dr. J.J. Moran, E.P. had been admitted to a hospital due to ‘lethargy and confusion’”(Geiling). Poe’s doctor was participating in a clinical pathologic conference, where he was given patients with a list of symptoms and he was to treat them and compare the results with others doctors in the conference. Poe was hallucinating and he was also very delirious. This theory fits perfectly and explains why he was unable to move and why he was in the condition that he was in. As I was saying previously one of the symptoms of rabies is the inability to move body parts and confusion. Poe was showing symptoms of rabies when he was admitting and while he was in the hospital. So it is likely that at sometime Poe contracted rabies somehow and that’s what caused his death. Once you contract the disease it could take anywhere from a week to a year for the symptoms to start appearing or showing. So at some point he would’ve had to contract it somehow, and if he did and rabies is the disease that killed Poe it would help explain why it took the amount of time it did for him to die in the

“After his death, Poe was quickly buried in an unmarked grave.

Twenty­six years later, his corpse was exhumed for a more proper burial,” (The Real Story Behind Edgar Allan Poe’s Death, 3). After the gravediggers dug up Poe’s body one of them noticed something hard rattling around inside his skull. Sometimes with brain tumors after the person that has it dies the tumor can harden into a ball after death. So people have theorized that this it is a convincing possibility that Poe had a brain tumor.

The third most convincing death theory to me is that Edgar Allan Poe may have died of previous illness. Poe reportedly visited a physician a few days before he was found on the streets of Baltimore, he complained about a fever and a weak pulse. Poe had recently flew from Richmond Virginia to Philadelphia. Poe also reportedly passed through Philadelphia during a cholera epidemic earlier that year. People are convinced that while Poe was in philadelphia he somehow contracted the contagion. “Given his frail immune system and the dreary weather that fateful night, Poe may have very well slipped into a deadly fever.”(The Real Story Behind Edgar Allan Poe’s Death). It is very possible that Poe contracted cholera in Philadelphia while his immune system was