now, this theory was published as early as 1860 right here by poe's friend john r. thompson who delivered a lecture about poe's life, his genius and his death and helped popularize the theory that poe was the victim of couping. he went to washington college hospital for four days. his doctor was john carter who wrote this account of poe's final days. poe is deleerious, in and out of consciousness, not making any sense. he couldn't remember what had become of his luggage, where were his change of clothes? why was he dressed in these other clothes? he seemed to lack any memory of it and started screaming in riddles over and over again. we never figured out who reynolds was. and his last words were lord, help my poor soul. the doctor said it was a case of nervous frustration a loss of nerve power. newspapers said anything from a drug reaction to brain feever or congestion in the brain. the statistic said frenits which means inflammation of the brain. a medical term we don't use anymore but the symptoms are similar to meningitis. so that gives us more theories about what could h

now, this theory was published as early as 1860 right here by poe's friend john r. thompson to delivered a lecture about poe's life, his genius, and his death. and he helped popularize the neary that poe was a victim of cooping. now, after his discovery at the polls, he went to washington college hospital for four days. his doctor was john carter who wrote this account of poe's final days. poe was delirious, in and out of consciousness, talking to shadows on the wall, not making any sense. he couldn't remember what had come of his lig age. where was his change of clothes, why was he dressed in these other clothes. he just seemed to lack any memory of it. and then he started screaming the name reynolds over and over again. we've never figured out who reynolds was. and then poe calmed down, his last words were lord, help my poor soul and he died at the age of 40. the doctor said it was a case of nervous a loss of nerve power. newspaper said everything from drug reaction to brain fever or congestion of the brain. the official mortality statistic for baltimore at the time said f