Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-05-22
EDGAR Il. POES DEATH.
0'''e'''e''t Of the Hospital Physician Who
AMENDED Him an Hts Last Illness.
From the Baltimore SrD

"''''e'''e'" OF TIE Hospital Physician Who
attended Him an Hts Last Illness.
[From the Baltimore SUM-
Dr. John j. Moran, of Falls Church,
L alrfax county, Va, who was resident
physician at Washington University
Hospital (now the Church Home and
Inhrmary), on North Broadway, from
March, 1849, to October, 1856, visited
The institution for the first time since the
dissolution of his official connection
herewith. DR.. Moran pointed out the
room occupied by Edgar Allan Poe, and
related the circumstances of his death,
which occurred Oct. Z, 1S49. The doc
tor states that on the 9th of October,
about 8 a. M, Mr.. Poe was brought to
the hospital in O hack driven by an
Irishman, who stated that he had found
his passenger on Light street wharf. In
reply to an inquiry whether the gentle
man was intoxicated, the hackman stated
that there was no smell of liquor about
him, and that he had lifted him into the
carriage like child. DR.. Moran did not
recognize his patient until the hackman
presented a card bearing Poe's name.
Mr.. Poe was unconscious and very pale.
He was placed in the third-story room
OF the turret, at the southwest corner of
the building, about seven-by-ten feet in
size. A nurse was stationed at the door.
with instructions to call DR.. Moran when
the patient awoke, which occurred in
twenty minutes. The doctor, being
much interested in his patient, went i'm
medlately to his side. A glance sufficed
to show that Mr.. Poe was extremely i'll,
and he was so informed. In reply to
question he said he did know how long
he had been sick, and could give no ac-
count Of himself. He was much sur
prised when informed that he was in O
hospital. He stated that he had stopped
at hotel on Pratt street, where a trunk
containing his papers and manuscripts
had been left. The trunk was sent for.
but the owner made no further reference
to it.
DIR. Moran proceeded to make dag
nosis Of the case. The patient was very
weak, but there was no tremor of the
limbs, no agitation of the body, no smell
Of liquor on the breath Or person, nor
any symptom Of intoxication. Owingto
the weak condition of the patient, DR..
Moran decided to administer a stlmu-
LIANT, and so informed him. MIR. Poe
said: eff [ thought its potency would
transport me to the elysian bowers of
the undiscovered spirit world, I would
not touch it,
DIR. Moran then proposed an anodyne.
when Mr.. Poe rejoined: "Twin sister to
the doomed and crazed in perdition.''
Mr.. Poe continued to converse most de-
spondingly, but was relieved by short
intervals Of sleep. As his body grew
weaker his mind retained its force, and
his conscious moments were marked by
vivid i2shes-of his characteristic genius.
Near the end Nr. Poe became as gentle
as a child.
He died an hour past midnight, six
teen hours after his arrival at the hos
pital. The cause of death was exhaust
ion Of the nervous fluid, caused by ex-
poaure, hunger and other things acting
UDOn : sensitive organization
The remains were laid in state in the
large reception room in the rotunda CT
The college, where they were viewed by
many persons. Fully fifty ladies re-
ceiYed locks Of the dead poets hair, that
fell in jet-black ringlets about his brow.
The funeral took place on the afternoon
of Oct. s, 1919, the remains being in
TERED in the burying ground of West
minister Presbyterian Church, where the
monument has since been erected.