We ve all heard the stories about the death of american writer edgar allan poe.
Edgar allan poe died drunk in a gutter.
Theories about the exact cause of death include excessive drinking rabies heart failure and.
On tuesday last edgar a.
Even though poe was completely addicted to alcohol many times he tried very hard to fight against his alcoholism.
He fell in with some companion here.
Edgar allan poe didn t die drunk in a baltimore gutter according to the first scientific study of the writer s final days.
Between the many possible causes of edgar allan poe s death his problem with alcohol is really considerable as one important reason of his early death scharf douglas 1.
The telltale facts suggest rabies instead.
On a dark and stormy election night in 1849 a newspaperman hurrying to ryan s 4 th ward polling place in baltimore came upon a man lying in a gutter outside the public hall.
William henry leonard poe was edgar s older brother by two years who may also have died of tuberculosis.
The attending physician dr.
Much of the evidence for this image of poe is believed to have been forged by griswold and though friends of poe denounced it 4 this interpretation had lasting impact.
Poe had been seen in a bar on lombard street disheveled and delirious but it is well established that he died in the hospital.
The writer died at 5 00 a m.
Edgar allan poe did not die drunk in a gutter in baltimore but rather had rabies a new study suggests.
It has never been substantiated that poe was found in the gutter.
Poe died in town here at the hospital from the effects of a debauch.
Poe died in 1849 in baltimore s washington college hospital after having disappeared for several days.
Michael benitez a cardiologist who practices a mere block from the writer s grave says it s true that the master of the macabre was seen in a bar on lombard street on an election day dreary in october 1849 delirious and possibly wearing somebody else s soiled clothes.
Kennedy wrote on october 10 1849.
Those legends abound and they are apocryphal.
A hopeless alcoholic poe died at age 40 drunk in a gutter in baltimore a victim of his debauched lifestyle.
Griswold who became the literary executor of poe s estate was actually a rival of poe and later published his first full biography depicting him as a depraved drunk drug addled madman.
As his close friend j.
Michael benitez a cardiologist who practices a block from poe s.
Moran reported the cause of death as phrenitis an antiquated term for swelling or congestion of the brain.
