Everyday's a school day!

[waltjnr 7,012]

Was driving listening to radio ,and a guy was talking about tobacco enemas,an 18th century practice ,for all sorts of complaints but especially drowning!! Missed end of radio program, so looked it up when I got home ,I'm guessing it's where the saying ,don't blow smoke up is arse ,comes from ? 

Another successful case was that of Anne Greene. In 1850, she was tried and hanged for infanticide. She was innocent: it was a stillbirth. Still, she was hanged, but when she was removed from the gallows, doctors discovered that she still had faint signs of life. A tobacco enema helped revive her, and she was pardoned.

woman fell from a ferry crossing the Seine. When she was pulled from the water, a passing soldier comforted her distressed husband, "for that his Wife should soon come to Life; then, giving him his Pipe, bid him put the End into her Anus, and blow the Smoke up with all his Might, putting the Bowl of the Pipe covered with a pricked Paper into his Mouth, the fifth Puff made the Woman's Belly grumble very loud, she threw up some Water, and then recovering her Senses she sat up...

[low plains drifter 10,716]

Did they use duty free Old Holborn?

[waltjnr 7,012]

4 minutes ago, low plains drifter said:

Did they use duty free Old Holborn?

Amber leaf from Dave down the lion! 

[low plains drifter 10,716]

1 hour ago, waltjnr said:

Amber leaf from Dave down the lion! 

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