The Parish will case before the Surrogate of the City of New York : medical opinions upon the mental competency of Mr. Parish / by John Watson [and others].

  • Watson, John, 1807-1863.
Date:
1857
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    better go up with them and help to get him into the house. I rode up in the carriage as far as Fulton street and Broadway; we went very slow ; I then suggested to Dr. Delafield I had better get out of the carriage as it was a light vehicle ; I took the car at the Park and went up to the house at Union Square; they had arrived there just before me; had got an easy chair down on the side-walk; we took him out, lifted him out of the carriage, and carried him up stairs ; I took hold of the chair, and I don't know who the man was who took hold of the other; we carried him up stairs; we then undressed him and got him into bed; I don't know but Mrs. Parish was there at the time of my arrival, but she was there after we had got him in bed ; when Mrs. Parish came into the room he appear- ed to nod—nodded; she then said he knows where he is; she made that remark; I remained there I suppose probably ten or fifteen minutes after that; I didn't see Mr. Parish again until some time in February of the next year, 1850.—(II. f. 1705 to 1711.) Dr. Delafield, who had been summoned to the case at Mr. Prime's office in Wall street, after enumerating the persons already in attendance there, and who assisted him in taking Mr. Parish home, says, I found that Mr. Parish had been attacked with a fit of apoplexy, and was beginning to recover from the first shock ; my first object was to get him home; he was placed in my own carriage, which was a coach, and driven home; this was done mainly with the assistance of Brown, the sexton, who accompanied me to Union Square ; he went upon the box; when we arrived at the house he [Mr. Parish] was carried to his bed-room on the third floor; he soon began to exhibit confused consciousness, and we shortly discovered that his right side was para- lyzed ; he recovered somewhat rapidly from this condition, so that about on the first of August I considered him out