Edgar Allan Poe died in the year of 1849. There are stories about how he died. The first theory was about him dieing from alcohol poisoning, but yet they said he couldn't keep a glass of wine down.
They also said that there was a possibility that he died form rabies, but they couldn't find a scratch or any bite marks whatsoever on him. And the cat that he owned was rabies free, so he couldn't have gotten it from her. Apparently the way he was acting in the hospital was how someone acted when they had rabies, but was also known as mania a potu (meaning madness form drinking).
So how did he die? I believe he died from alcohol poisoning. The reason why is because they don't have any evidence of him getting bitten. He had no scratches or bite marks on him anywhere. He didn't remember getting bitten by anything.
They found letters from Edgar to his wife promising her that he would change. In other words he would stop drinking. And he would write those same letters to his mother. If I do remember right before his uncle-in-law, Henry Herring, took him to the hospital Edgar was found outside of the Baltimore Saloon.
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