There are a lot of theories about Edgar Allan Poe's death. The people studying about him are still unsure of how he died. Some say he died from alcohol poisoning ans some say it was rabies.
Dr. R. Michael Benitez thinks that Poe was slandered and was not drunk. From the way Poe was hallucinating and shouting out imaginery friends, he thought that it could have been rabies. After all that he seemed better, but the fourth dayafter he was found, Poe got angry and confused, then he calmed down and died.
the other other author Burton R. Pollin disagrees with Benitez. He says Benitez is wrong about Poe's death. He says that Benitez admitted he had no evidence of a scratch or bite for Poe's rabies theory. Another man, Dr. Joseph Snodgrass, aslso disagrees with Benitez. There was no proof that Poe wasn't drunk.
Benitez says he didn't admit of any scratches or bites on Poe. He said that it didn't really matter even if there was or wasn't proof because it isn't inconsistent with the diagnosis.
I would have to agree with Snodgrass and Pollin, but then again Benitez's theory could be possible. I think Poe probably didn't die from either drinking or rabies. He couldn've died from something else.
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