Originally posted by David Orsam
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As an aside, I think we may run the risk of misunderstanding thingsö owing to the extent of the damage done to Nicholsī neck. There is the risk that we reason that blood flowing profusely from such a wound must be a bucketload of the stuff.
However, I think that is surmising too much. Think, if you will, of somebody who receives a blow on the nose and begins to bleed from it. Normally, a nosebleed will trickle out of one of the nostrils, and run down the upper lip rather placidly. But sometimes, a nosebleed will be more powerful, and blood will actually run , as if from a tap, onto the ground.
In such a case, most would say that the noseblood was a profuse one.
My guess is that the blood coming out of Nicholsī neck was something along those lines when Neil and Mizen saw her, a bit more in Neilīs case, a bit less in Mizenīs.
I think that could well have sufficed for Neil to say that the blood flowed profusely. Or he said that there was a constant stream of blood coming from the wound, and the papers wrote that it bled profusely - once again the former sugestion being the better one, but the second one being viable nevertheless.
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