From that hour Walter Clifford nursed his father day and night.

Dr.Garner arrived next day.

He examined the patient, and put a great many questions as to the history and progress of the disorder up to that date, and inquired in particular what was the length of time the fits generally endured.
Here he found them all rather hazy.

"Ah," said he, "patients are seldom able to assist their medical adviser with precise information on this point, yet it's very important.

Well, can you tell me how long this attack has lasted ?" They told him that within a day or two.
"Then now," said he, "the most important question of all: What day did the pain leave his extremities ?" The patient and John Baker had to compare notes to answer this question, and they made it out to be about twenty days.
"Then he ought to be as dead as a herring," whispered the doctor.
After this he began to walk the room and meditate, with his hands behind him.
"Open those top windows," said he.