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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