Modern medicine has come a long way…

In the 18th century, the tobacco smoke enema, an insufflation of tobacco smoke into the rectum, was a common method of reviving drowning victims.

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SW-User

Wonder if that’s where the old sayin* originated 🤔
“ You’re just blowing smoke up my arse “.
Lieing to deliberately confuse or mislead someone in order to deceive them.
I guess the drowning victims never really new for sure, right 🤷‍♂️😂

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SW-User

@ThreeLittleBirds Enjoy your bananas 🍌and cucumbers 🍆 😁
You’re welcome as always my wee little Birdie 🌻😘

ThreeLittleBirds · F

I'm sitting on the moon
Watching planet blue, hello
Looking all around
Rotating without sound, where are you?
Where are you? I'm sitting on the moon
Where are you? I am missing you..

. @SW-User

SW-User

@ThreeLittleBirds
That is so very true of someone 😉

PhoenixPhail · M

The Great Plague of 1665 saw tobacco smoke widely advocated as a defense against ‘bad air.' Indeed at the height of the plague, smoking a pipe at breakfast was actually made compulsory for the schoolboys at Eton College in London.

OogieBoogie · F

It has.

But dammit....i wanna try a ladies opium tea party at least once in my life 😭

And there are days at work i could really use slipping some of this into my Boss's coffee...

😏

RunTheJulz · 46-50, F

@OogieBoogie The “good ole days” or “daze” !! 🤠

Thevy29 · 41-45, M

This kind of stuff is why history is so entertaining

SomeMichGuy · M

Stimulant

SomeMichGuy · M

No, I'm being serious; if it worked to actually blow smoke up a person's ass, it would have to be a stimulant effect, @RunTheJulz...

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