Baudelaire writes in Edgar Poe, sa vie et ses oeuvres (Edgar Allan Poe, His Life and Works, 1852), «I am told that he did not drink like an
ordinary toper, but like a savage, with an altogether American energy and fear of wasting a minute, as though he were accomplishing an act of murder, as though there was something inside him that he had to kill, «a worm that would not die.
The brain, it turns out, can heal itself, and adding stem cells could unleash
that toper to treat Parkinson's, stroke and even depression.