Don_Dickle to Today I [email protected]English • 1 year agoTIL that in the 1750s, doctors used tobacco enemas, believing they could cure various diseases. When the practice was debunked, the phrase “blowing smoke up your ass” was born.NSFWen.wikipedia.orgexternal-linkmessage-square10fedilinkarrow-up1170cross-posted to: [email protected]
arrow-up1170external-linkTIL that in the 1750s, doctors used tobacco enemas, believing they could cure various diseases. When the practice was debunked, the phrase “blowing smoke up your ass” was born.NSFWen.wikipedia.orgDon_Dickle to Today I [email protected]English • 1 year agomessage-square10fedilinkcross-posted to: [email protected]
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish6•1 year agoWasn’t blowing smoke up someone’s ass an old way to revive them after drowning
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish2•1 year agohttps://www.historyextra.com/period/first-world-war/what-is-the-origin-of-the-phrase-to-blow-smoke-up-someones-arse/
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish3•1 year agoI can only read the first paragraph and then it asks me to create an account.
Wasn’t blowing smoke up someone’s ass an old way to revive them after drowning
I’ve also heard that.
https://www.historyextra.com/period/first-world-war/what-is-the-origin-of-the-phrase-to-blow-smoke-up-someones-arse/
I can only read the first paragraph and then it asks me to create an account.
https://archive.ph/iRX5v