Today I learned on Nostr: TIL about the tobacco smoke enema, a medical "treatment" that was employed by ...

TIL about the tobacco smoke enema, a medical "treatment" that was employed by European physicians to treat gut pain and resuscitate victims of near drowning. The practice appeared shortly after the import of Tobacco from the New World and was an established practice by the turn of the 19th century.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tobacco_smoke_enema
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