What did Edgar Allen Poe die from?

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Did Edgar Allen Poe die from Tuberculosis?

-- Anonymous, March 18, 2002

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Edgar Allen Poe did not die of tuberculosis. I don't rember what he did die from but I know that it is not from that. My class watched a movie about him and his cousin which was his wife Virginia and his mother died from that.

-- Anonymous, March 18, 2002

When found dead in the steets of Baltimore, Poe was found in clothes not his own. There is speculation it may have been what is now termed a "mugging." Poe had good, well-brushed, but often somewhat worn clothing. What would a good pair of boots or a cape, etc be worth in such lawless days? When I attended "death date" presenation in Baltimore (where he is [ahem!] interred, this schorlaly type fellow who has researched Poe told me this.....I hope there is Veracity to the statements and I have not "added to the myth...."

bhintz

-- Anonymous, March 18, 2002


he did not die from that disease he died from rabies .... i found it in a book so it's right...

-- Anonymous, March 18, 2002

You can find lots of different reasons given in books. They can't all be right.

-- Anonymous, March 18, 2002

The mediaal diagnosis does not clear things up by our standards plus the attending doctor starting expanding his account on a lucrative lecture circuit. I favor the reviwew of the mystery at www.eapoe.org. When looking at new and old counter theories the "cooping" theory added to Poe's serious health problems from alcoholism, stress and poverty seems the most plausible, if unproven. There was an election. "Cooping" gangs hijacked unwary males. Poe was ill off and on. off the agon at that time. Plying the victims with drink, keeping them cooped up until they were led from precinct to precint with changes of clothing for disguise so they could vote more than once. Seeing Poe ill the vote defrauders could have dumped him and be afraid to say a word- or maybe they did't find out about Poe at all. Maybe they fled to Florida.

-- Anonymous, March 19, 2002


I very recently gave some complementary hints about that on this site, answering the question "What was his illness?", perhaps useful for you. Scroll down to find it in "NEW ANSWERS", on March 18, 2002. Yours sincerely, Raven's Shade (Belgium).

-- Anonymous, March 20, 2002

He died of dick cancer...probably from all that animal sex

-- Anonymous, March 20, 2002

NO poe died from epilepsia ithink he had that disease. who know with all those people dieing he could have died from any thing!!

(some of you guys are perverts!!)

-- Anonymous, March 21, 2002


NO poe died from epilepsia i think he had that disease. who knows with all those people dieing he could have died from any thing!!

(some of you guys are perverts!!)

-- Anonymous, March 21, 2002


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