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Did Edgar Allan Poe die of rabies, and not booze? Spurning liquids hints horrific end.(A)

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From: The Washington Times
Date: 19960911
Author:Price, Joyce

For nearly 147 years it's been widely believed that Edgar Allan Poe was drunk when he was found semiconscious outside a Baltimore tavern and that his death four days later resulted from alcohol poisoning.

But new research by a doctor at the University of Maryland Medical Center in Baltimore strongly suggests that the famed writer, whose life and death at age 39 were as mysterious as his chilling works, died of rabies.

Poe's medical case was reviewed by Dr. Michael Benitez, a cardiologist and an assistant professor at the university's School of Medicine. His review is ...

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