It is said that Emperor Tiberius fell ill and collapsed into a coma but awoke after some time, how were the ancients able to keep someone in a coma alive?

by brad854
DanKensington

Tiberius himself hasn't been previously covered in the sub, so anything specific to his case is more than welcome.

In the meantime, here are some previous posts on ancient coma care in general:

Caligula and his coma has been asked about before, but received no surviving responses. In the meanwhile, I did turn up some answers regarding comatose care before modern medicine: