American writer and literary critic (1809–1849)

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Mysterious medicine : the doctor-scientist tales of Hawthorne and Poe / edited by L. Kerr Dunn.

Edgar Allan Poe : the metamorphosis of a legend / by Rhys Howells.

Medical biographies : the ailments of thirty-three famous persons / by Philip Marshall Dale ; foreword by Howard F. Stein.

The medicalisation of the concept of mad genius, c. 1840-c.1930 / by Juliet Heath.

Rabies theory makes Poe's death stranger than fiction / by Tom Rhodes.

The conchologist's text-book, embracing the arrangements of Lamarck and Linnaeus, with a glossary of technical terms / By Captain Thomas Brown ... Illustrated by nineteen engravings on steel.

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Edgar Allan Poe

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The conchologist's text-book, embracing the arrangements of Lamarck and Linnaeus, with a glossary of technical terms / By Captain Thomas Brown ... Illustrated by nineteen engravings on steel.

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