Peter321

Looks interesting; hope it becomes available in the US. There was a pretty decent show on the Battle of the Nile maybe 10 years ago, part history, part achaelogy - "Napoleon's Lost Fleet" or someting like that was the titile. Not a dramatizxation, though. Peter

As you probably know, Medicine at the end of the 1700's was pretty primitive. They could do a decent job with wounds and fractures as long as there was no perforation of the lung or abdoiminal organs, and infection ("gangrene") didn't settle in. Their knowlege of diseases and their causes was very poor, however, and their ability to treat them was far worse. Physicians at that time were largely trained in the Greek tradition. This was more philosophical than scientific, although physicians could and did make very accurate observations and records of the symptoms and signs their patients experienced, and were certainly capable of applying their observations (Ex: Jenner and "vaccination" with cowpox as protection form the far deadlier smallpox) . Remember that it really wasn't until Louis Pasteur and Koch, well into the 1800's, that bacteria were identified and established as causes of disease (see Koch's Postulates). Sulfonamide antibitoics didn't make an appearance until circa 1930, Penicillin circa 1940. George is indeed fortunate to have a ship's doctor who is far above average for his time... as well as not being entirely straight, either!

Hmm, sounds kinda like Jardines. Real life have to plead lack of experience, but personality and character matter far more to me than anything else.

As long as it's an even proposition, I'm sure that could be arranged...

Yes, I think it's obvious Max must be distantly related to the Bridgemont Grangers. If he didn't have blue blood, he certainly had blue balls for quite a few years, LOL!

Making my Debut... will you be taking me to the Cotillion then, Mark?!

I love "In the Mood"; almost ayone who's played in Marching Band has played this tune (talk about Big Bands, LOL), and it's a keeper; almost iconic for that style and era.

What's your favorite color? Yellow What's your pet's name? Rory Are you single? Not for the past 28 years. Do you like goats? Baby goats are pretty cute, actually! What really pisses you off? Very little actually. I'm a pretty even tempered kind of guy! Whatever you think of. I don't think of a heck of a lot. I do love history, especially the Napoleonic era, so Bridgemont is right up my... hmm, maybe I souldn't use that terminology around Granger, eh? Ok, can I vote now, huh, can I, can I?!! Appologies to any who read these posts for the pointless drivel. I promise eventually I'll actually have something worthwhile to say, and if I don't I'll STF up, LOL! Peter

Of course, now you guys are doing it in the other thread, LOL. And I suspect there are some intersting things about Tonto that may cme out of The Box. Ok, that's four posts; I guess I gotta go to that Personal Info thingy. Thanks, Mark!

Even though I've been reading this story from the begining, you guys are making my head spin here. I'm glad somebody else took charge of tracking all this so that I don't have to! Wgen you write a comples saga like this one; it's really easy to slip up on the character's names... to say nothing of the birthdays!

Me too, Sharon!

Err, Canuk, that's Bridge-MONT. And don't be pressing Mark to write faster; at least at his present pace I can actually keep up with both stories! Sorry, that's one post down to get to the magic five so I can vote!