When Doctors Literally Blew Smoke Up Your Arse

For more medical factoid fun check out this video and find out the answer to the question- Why Do Doctors Have Men Turn Their Heads and Cough During Physicals?: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLxtMWntPeY

I'm so glad this practice is now behind us

Wow! When I was a kid (in the 1970s), I got a kick reading the old medical books (mid to late 1800s) on my grandmother's shelf. Names like dropsy, consumption, female hysteria, etc. had ridiculous treatments and cures. Hours of fun!   I never knew why she had those books... she never learned to read. I was told the books were given to her by her employer when they moved away back in 1934. It seems that I was the only one to ever take an interest in those books. I was told that seeing me with those books made her happy. ::sniff:: Now, I have something in my eye...

now they stick cameras up there.

So instead of black lungs... You get a black arse. Wait.. that sounded soooo wrong.

I would love to see the outtakes on this one...I can't conceive NOT giggling hysterically during filming.

In some third world countries people try to use the technique to revive animals. I witnessed once a bird crash against a window, the bird seemed dead not breathing, and this girl picked the bird up, blew air in the birds butt, magically it revived and the bird flew away molested but alive.

Meeting of British Medical Society 1794: "Gentlemen, be it resolved that rectal aspiration is not an effective procedure and as such will no longer be prescribed or taught in medical schools of the Empire. Err and let's us never speak of it again."

and pray the patient doesn't have diarrhea. 😲😖🤕😨

they never stated if the treatment were ever found to be effective! where's the science here? was this an Onion story?!

It's a real wonder that any people from that era ever survived.

I had to pause the video because I was late to my daily blood letting.

Emergency tobacco enema. lol

What health fads today will be the bywords for bullshit tomorrow?

I'd come back from the dead if that was done to me. gah

INTENSE RIMMING

"Figuratively though this practice is alive and well" HAHAHAHA

and if the victim got addicted to tobacco after being revived by it they would smoke tobacco from their bottom on a regular basis?

This is quickly becoming one of my favorite channels on YouTube!

Ah... Smoke in the butt to revive a drowned person? Just what were these "doctors" smoking?