Edgar Allan Poe died on October 7, 1849. To this day it is still a mystery on how he died. Some theories are that he died after being drugged by repeat voters, murder, and epilepsy. Edgar Allan Poe died of alcohol abuse combined with latent tuberculosis. Tuberculosis is a disease that grows mostly in your lungs and alcohol abuse is the overuse of alcohol consistently. Poe was found on the streets of Baltimore barely conscious in clothes that were not his own. He was taken to Washington College Hospital where he was never conscious enough to tell how he got into the state he was found in. Poe’s cause of death was diagnosed as congestion of the brain this is a common diagnosis for patients with a history of alcohol abuse. Symptoms of alcohol
