Jenny Guerrero FINAL EXAM

On September 27, 1849, early in the morning Edgar Allan Poe first began his return to the North, setting for Richmond for Baltimore. But a week later on October 3, Poe was found outside a Baltimore Saloon in an alcoholic stupor by Joseph Walker, which said he was flooded in alcohol.


Edgar Allan Poe was driven to the hospital: Washington Medical College. Poe was given a private room, sectioned reserved for cases involving drunkenness. Poe was unconscious until three o’clock the next morning. His face was pale, he was drenched in sweat, and he was talking constantly addressing to imaginary objects on the walls. Then the next day he seemed a little better but could not remember falling ill. Then by the forth day in the hospital Poe grew confused then quieted down and died October 7, 1849.


That year thirty-three cases were reported no human rabies, which was one of the theories on how Poe had died. But Poe had never remembered being bitten, yet; only twenty-four percent of the vitamins recall any history of animal exposure. But bat related rabies had been identified in fifth-teen cases of human rabies in 1980. It was also thought that Poe could have gotten the rabies form his cat. But at the time his cat wasn’t showing any signs of rabies. But Poe’s cat did die after him, but died from starvation. Poe was also not showing any symptoms on having rabies so he could have not died from it.


Poe has also had a cold, which he could have gotten when he was drunk outside the Baltimore Saloon. Since he was to drunk to care about protecting himself against the wind and rain and Elmird Shelton had also remembered leaving Richmond when Poe started having a fever.