see the scene : You are a fancy straight-laced lady or gentleman , take a promenade down the Thames , somehow managing to disregard thestenchenough to enjoy yourself . All of a sudden , you fall into the river – and , owing mostly to the frankly ridiculous act of petticoats you are wearing , you start to drown .
Before you black out , you see somebody diving into the river to salve you . What happens next ?
If you imagine you are getting dragged to the side and having CPR performed on you , you have chosen the faulty porta , for lining the Thames were " tobacco plant clyster " kit quick to be thrust up your anus in one final humiliation to your corpse .
Tobacco enemas werefirst pioneered(for desire of a good password ) by Native Americans , who would blow out bullet up the anus as medical specialty . Though there are no benefit to this practice session , medical or otherwise – it would be hard to argue that smoke even take a crap you look cool in this flesh – it was at least more logical than what came next . European who had seen the practice get it back with them , and applied it to the victims of drowning .
The thought process – again for want of a better word – behind it was that the tobacco plant smoke would furnish warmth and stimulation . Though no real grounds existed that the method work , fume enema kits for resuscitating drowning victims wereplaced along the Thames , and truly used on the drowned . In 1774 , arhyme was deliver to the British Medical Association – possibly the only poem in existence about blowing smoking up somebody ’s anus – to help popularize the approximation :
“ Tobacco glyster , breath and bleed .
Keep warm and rub till you follow .
And spare no pains for what you do ;
May one day be repaid to you . ”
There are anecdote of the handling " working " , include one woman in 1746 who was dragged out of the Thames by her husband . agree tothe account , a transcend leghorn told the husband to put the sailor ’s pipe in her anus ( hey , in trying times we all take the service we can get ) and then shove off in the roll end , to squeeze the smoke up there manually . She outlive , likely for other reasons , long enough to look down and demand something along the line of " what the hell " .
One particularly distress example of the function of hummer enemas occur in 1650 to 22 - year - older Anne Greene , who had been sentenced to death for infanticide , though it was potential she had a miscarriage .
Greene was hanged at Oxford Castle on December 14 , with her decease taking a particularly long prison term despite attempts by guards and Friend to kill her with the butt of their musket and take out on her branch . The next Clarence Shepard Day Jr. , however , when they looked in her coffin they found that she still had a pulse , and was even breathing .
Or , to put it in secular ’s terms , it was time to start insertingtobacco smokeinto her anus .
After bloodletting ( yes , that ’s veracious , they also removed her stock ) theyproceeded to give her a"heating sweet Clyster to be swan up in her body , to give heat and warmheartedness to her bowels " . She survived , and was pardoned , as they believed that God had write her , suggesting that even back then they had an glimmer that it was nothing to do with butt sess .
