Mirror of Literature,  11 (1828), 176.

Dead March

Anon

Genre:

Anecdote, Drollery

Subjects:

Medical Practitioners


    'On the evening before Dr. Clubbe died, his physician feeling his pulse with much gravity, and observing that it beat more even than upon his last visit; "My dear friend," said he, "if you don't already know, or have not a technical expression, for it, I will tell you what it beats—it beats the dead march."'



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