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]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.
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