Tuesday, June 2, 2009

vincent soto final exam

The writer was so sensitive to alcohol that a glass of wine can make him violently ill for days. Poe may have had a problem with alcohol as a youngster . Poe was found outside a baltimore saloon in alcoholic stupor on october 3,1849. The writer entered wasington college hospital comatose dr.Benitez said but by the next day was perspiring heavily hallvcinating and shouting at imaginary companions. In the brief period when he was calm and awake poe refused alcohol and could drink water only with diffitcultly. Also about one fourth of rabies victims reportedly cannot remember being bitten. After an infection the sytoms can take up to a year to appear . But when the sytoms do appear the disease is a swift and brutal killer! Most patients dies in a few days.

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