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Tobacco smoke as attempted resuscitation

In the eighteenth century, some European and North American drowning-rescue societies recommended blowing tobacco smoke into the rectum with a tube or bellows. This was a historical practice based on mistaken medical ideas; it was later abandoned because it was dangerous and ineffective.

схематична ілюстрація, створена ШІ. Промпт: “Museum-style historical illustration of an 18th-century tobacco smoke resuscitation kit with hand bellows, pipe and metal nozzle displayed on a table beside medical pamphlet, no person depicted, educational and non-graphic, no text.”

схематична ілюстрація, створена ШІ. Промпт: “Museum-style historical illustration of an 18th-century tobacco smoke resuscitation kit with hand bellows, pipe and metal nozzle displayed on a table beside medical pamphlet, no person depicted, educational and non-graphic, no text.”