Specific Florida neighbourhoods.
Oh, and he's in his early/mid thirties now, so he would have been around there about 10-15 years ago. Thank you in advance! :)
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The patient who gets a head injury and falls into a coma for days, weeks, or even years and finally wakes up to a changed world is a pretty common fictional trope. In some of these stories, there are descriptions of how the patient is fed: for example, in Joan Aiken's children's novel Nightbirds on Nantucket, comatose 11-yr-old Dido Twite is kept alive on "a mixture of whale oil and molasses" that her caretaker pours down her throat, using a coffeepot: "she swallowed it in her sleep."
Nowadays, medical practitioners warn us never, never to do this sort of thing, because the patient could choke. But before the days of intravenous feeding and nasogastric tubes, there wasn't any alternative.
My question is, did this ever work? Could a comatose patient be fed this way? Or is this idea completely fictitious?
Hi,
I would need some words of advise concerning pistols. 18th century pistols, in fact.
Character A, who is an experienced soldier, teaches character B, who is about to fight his very first duel, but never held a weapon in his hands before, how to shoot a gun. They practice with a small pocket pistol.
Could B use said pistol in the duel, or would he be supposed to have special duelling weapons?
Would he carry the loaded pistol to the place where the duel is to take place, or load it in situ? (He has no seconds or servants).
How will B most likely hold the pistol, when he picks it up for the first time? With one, or with both hands?
As for character A, what could he possibly forget to explain/ mention to B concerning the handling of the pistol, just because it seems too obvious for him?
And last but not least, when would B learn, whether or not satisfaction is reached with the first draw of blood? Would this be decided just before the fight starts, or would his adversary explain these details beforehand, in a letter?
(terms googled:
pocket pistols - loading - 18th century - duels - duelling (and combinations of thereof)
Oh, and it it matters, the story is set in 1795, in Philadelphia.)
Thank you so much in advance!