title: The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar
author:  Edgar Allan Poe 
description: A man dying from tuberculosis asks his friend to hypnotize him before death. The event is witnessed by two doctors and a medical student. The results are interesting.<br /><br /><br /> Like reading? Check out this series.<br />
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  ## X-ing a Paragrab
  
  
    
  
  
  ### Edgar Allan Poe
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ## X-ing a Paragrab
  
  
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  _by Edgar Allan Poe_
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  As it is well known that the 'wise men' came 'from the East,' and as Mr.
  Touch-and-go Bullet-head came from the East, it follows that Mr. Bullet-head
  was a wise man; and if collateral proof of the matter be needed, here we have
  it—Mr. B. was an editor. Irascibility was his sole foible, for in fact the
  obstinacy of which men accused him was anything but his foible, since he
  justly considered it his forte. It was his strong point—his virtue; and it
  would have required all the logic of a Brownson to convince him that it was
  'anything else.' I have shown that Touch-and-go Bullet-head was a wise man;
  and the only occasion on which he did not prove infallible, was when,
  abandoning that legitimate home for all wise men, the East, he migrated to the
  city of Alexander-the-Great-o-nopolis , or some place of a similar title, out
  West.
  
  
  I must do him the justice to s