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Dr. Mackowiak agrees with Dr. Benitez that rabies was the most likely cause of Poe's death, based on the available evidence. He adds, though, that after Poe's death, his doctor went on the lecture circuit and gave varying accounts of the writer's final days.
When Edgar Allan Poe died in this town in 1849, newspapers gave the cause of death as congestion of the brain and cerebral inflammation, archaic terms that suggest doctors had no definitive explanation but believed Poe's death was related to a severe neurological disorder.