Dr. Fletcher, Dr. Mulhall, and the Author’s father—Interesting
particulars of a medical consultation—Family
recollections—Counsellor, afterward Judge Fletcher—First meeting
between him and the Author—Catching a Tartar—Sam Doxy of the
Derrys—Breaks his neck in riding to a Turnpike-Board
dinner—Pronounced dead by Mr. Knaggs, the apothecary—That eminent
practitioner’s judgment disputed by Lieut. Jerry Palmer—The
apothecary proceeds to show that the patient _must_, or at least
_ought_ to be, dead—An incision, and its consequences—Lieut.
Palmer’s successful mode of treatment—Recovery of the corpse 76