The House of the Seven Gables
Who was the doctor who announced the cause of Colonel Pyncheon's death?
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John Swinnerton announced the cause of the Colonel's death.
One,--John Swinnerton by name,--who appears to have been a man of eminence, upheld it, if we have rightly understood his terms of art, to be a case of apoplexy.
The House of Seven Gables, Chapter One