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In this first article it says that when poe was intoxicated he was abusive & ungrateful. It was also election day for congress. Instead snodgrass sugested that poe be sent to a hospital. He was taken to the hospital of washington medical college.

In the same article it says that Poe was given a private room, reportedly in a session for casess of "drunkness." He was attended by by the resident phasician, Dr. john j. Moran. He had receved a medical degree from the University of Maryland He was only about 26 years old.

Poe being quieted he was questioned about his family and where he lived. But most of his answers were incoherant. He said he had a wife whichby what he learned was not true but a lie. On October 6, poe began to yell out a persons name. It may have been that of a Baltimore family, named Reynolds or more likely, the name of his Uncle-in-law.

in another article it says that he did not die of alcoholism but that of rabies, a "new study" sugests. "But poe was not drunk!" says Dr. Benitez, an assistant of Dr. john j. moranat the University of Maryland Medical Center. "Ithink poe is much maligned in that respect" he added.

In another article it says that Dr. R Michael Menitez is wrong to ascribe the death of Edgar Allan Poe to rabiesthrough animal infection rathar than traditionaly maintaned cause of alcohalism. It says poe was found outside of a Baltimore saloon in a alcoholstupor on October 3. 1849, and died four days later. Dr. John j. morans account of his final days is given in a letter to poes aunt and mother-in-law, maria clemm.

Supplementry accounts of poes alcoholicconditions came from joseph walker, a Baltimore primetor who first found him; Dr. joseph snodgrass, an editor well known to poe; and two of poes reletives.

Out of all of these articles that i have just read the theory that mostly i think shows the most evidence is the point of alcohalism. so all of the evidence that i read from this article have shown me the part that he died drunk. It says that when intoxicated he becomes abusive & Ungrateful. So i think he died of intoxication.