TIL: Tobacco Smoke Enemas Were Actually A Thing

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Today it's well established that tobacco is something to better stay away of. It's nasty, it's addicting, and it's bad for your health.

So, don't eat it. Don't chew it. Don't smoke it with your mouth. Or your ass. Wait, what? Who would do that?

Well, here's something funny I learnt today. Apparently, tobacco smoke enemas were actually a thing back in the 18th century 🤣🤣🤣🤣

European physicians used it for a range of stuff, from treating gut pain to .... resuscitating victims of near drowning, lmao. Forget mouth to mouth. Mouth to ass smoke is the real deal. Imagine Baywatch but instead of CPR, Anderson blowing smoke to random asses. Hot 🥵🤤🥵🤤🥵

They even used liquid tobacco enemas to ease the symptoms of a hernia back in the good ol'days 🤣

However, don't haste to give credit to European doctors for this amazing technique. They actually stole it from North American Indians.

There were even tobacco kits installed here and there much like we today have portable defibrillators 🤣🤣🤣

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A portable mouth to ass tobacco kit. Public domain via wikipedia

Eventually people caught on and figured the whole enema thing is bullocks and even dangerous so the use of tobacco enemas in Western medicine slowly declined after 1810. Still, the use of tobacco in other medical practices persisted for many decades to come.

Oh well. A pity if you ask me. Who knows, maybe some crazy homeopaths still do it 🤣

Anyways, there's a whole Wikipedia article on the subject, with the whole history and various fun facts. Feel free to visit if you want to learn more:

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They were the experts of the time. Everyone knows that you have to listen to the experts. Who are we to question the scholars of the ass, mouth and tobacco.
I haven't studied medicine and you?😉

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I knew absolutely nothing about tobacco enemas. What you just don’t learn on the Hive)

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Didn't see that coming 🤣🤣

Imagine Baywatch but instead of CPR, Anderson blowing smoke to random asses. Hot 🥵

Bruh, wtf 😂😂😂😂😂

medicine slowly declined after 1810.

Let's revive it. !LOL, NO!

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Nicotine is a natural pesticide. Maybe they were treating infestations.

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well ! I don't know how you find this stuff!! lol , and your creativity of imagining these things in nowadays is crazy!!
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so don't fancy someone blowing smoke up your ass? I'm disappointed :P

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If memory serves, they did that to George Washington. It didn't work so they bled him, which killed him.

I guess that's 18th century medicine in a nutshell: smoke up your ass and bleeding you. You either got better despite the "cures" or you died because of them.

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I see the craziest things on your blog 😂😂😂

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Where the hell do you find this shit…..no pun intended. That is hysterical, mouth to ass….🤣😂🤣🤪😂

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