Don_Dickle@lemmy.world to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 months 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-up1169arrow-down117cross-posted to: wikipedia@lemmy.world
arrow-up1152arrow-down1external-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@lemmy.world to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 months agomessage-square10fedilinkcross-posted to: wikipedia@lemmy.world
minus-squarex4740N@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·4 months agoWasn’t blowing smoke up someone’s ass an old way to revive them after drowning
minus-squareFuckfuckmyfuckingass@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·4 months agoI’ve also heard that.
minus-squareSuckMyWang@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·4 months agohttps://www.historyextra.com/period/first-world-war/what-is-the-origin-of-the-phrase-to-blow-smoke-up-someones-arse/
minus-squareFuckfuckmyfuckingass@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·4 months agoI can only read the first paragraph and then it asks me to create an account.
minus-squareBearOfaTime@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down1·4 months agohttps://archive.ph/iRX5v
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