nsuccessful. In a letter on July 22 1848, Poe wrote " It has been a long time since any artificial stimulus has passed my lips", (Letters 239).
             Poe was claimed to have been insane or mad. Poe's insanity and madness was mainly credited to lesions to the brain. An example of Poe breaking was when he arrived at John Sartain's office begging for protection from an imaginary army. Poe shaved his mustache so that he would not be recognized. On August 7th, 1849, Poe described his illness, "I have suffered worse than death, yet so much form cholera as from its continued consequences in debility and compression of the brain", (Letters 365). Poe's condition escalated.
             Poe was brought to Washington Memorial Hospital of Baltimore on October 6, 1849, after being found in the middle of the road. Poe then recited his final poem, "Father I firml
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