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Crewleader

(17,005 posts)
Fri Nov 28, 2014, 05:06 PM Nov 2014

What Is This Old Tool?

Can you name this strange old tool?

Do you know what it is?



Tobacco Smoke Enemas (1750s – 1810s)

The tobacco enema was used to infuse tobacco smoke into a patient’s rectum for various medical purposes, primarily the resuscitation of drowning victims.

A rectal tube inserted into the anus was connected to a fumigator and bellows that forced the smoke towards the rectum.

The warmth of the smoke was thought to promote respiration.

Doubts about the credibility of tobacco enemas led to the popular phrase “blowing smoke up your ass.”


Amazingly, it is still in constant use in Washington D.C. , by the best senators and representatives money can buy.

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What Is This Old Tool? (Original Post) Crewleader Nov 2014 OP
This is why aliens stay clear of Earth. Kaleva Nov 2014 #1
I had read of that practice dixiegrrrrl Nov 2014 #2
Tha goddam things ya learn around this place… Jackpine Radical Nov 2014 #3
Here's another old tool that blows smoke up peoples asses. bearssoapbox Nov 2014 #4
That's the photo I thought the OP was going to have. HubertHeaver Nov 2014 #5
So did I bearssoapbox Nov 2014 #7
Looks pretty similar, imho. jillan Nov 2014 #9
Promoted by the tobacco / medical complex, no doubt NBachers Nov 2014 #6
That is so cool Sweeney Nov 2014 #8
Those were replaced with Spirochete Nov 2014 #10

Kaleva

(36,146 posts)
1. This is why aliens stay clear of Earth.
Fri Nov 28, 2014, 05:14 PM
Nov 2014

They briefly stop by and see this kind of shit going on and say

Sweeney

(505 posts)
8. That is so cool
Sat Nov 29, 2014, 01:29 AM
Nov 2014

And I thought blowing smoke up some ones ass was just a metaphor.

I had that problem with gherkins too. I heard about this fellow named perkins who was always jerking his gherkin whose mother said perkin quit jerkin your gherkin; your gherkins fer ferking not jerkin. I didn't know there was actually a little pickle called a gherkin. I suppose I should have asked: What's a gherkin; but that seems pretty obvious in context.
Sweeney

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