This week we will review the Tobacco Smoke Enema Kit. The picture to the right is one such kit made around 1770. As the name suggests, the kit enables the user to stoke up their favorite tobacco and blow it up their own ass. I kid you not.

The device has a fumigator, which acts as the tobacco pipe. One end of the fumigator is attached to the rectal tube. The other end of the fumigator is attached to the bellows.

Tobacco is stoked up in the fumigator, creating the warm, nicotine-rich smoke. The rectal tube is inserted well up the anus. The bellows are then manually pumped, efficiently blowing the smoke up your tailpipe. This was a vast improvement over cheaper models that required a person to actually blow the smoke.

The resulting warm tobacco smoke was believed to promote better respiration, and as a consequence was used to help resuscitate drowning victims. Naysayers derided the entire concept of blowing smoke up your ass as a ridiculous notion, hence the popular – if crude – expression.

Eighteenth Century European doctors thought this process was worth stealing from North American Indians, who had been doing it for who knows how long. In particular, English physician Richard Meade, a pioneer in scabies and communicable diseases – oh, and personal physician to Queen Ann and later to King George II – endorsed the aboriginal use of smoke enemas to revive the unconscious. If the Royal doc says it’s okay by him, then it’s okay by me.

The practice peaked in popularity around 1800, and kits such as the one pictured here were readily available. There were even public smoke enema stations set up along rivers in England. They were the Kangen Water machines of their day. Smoke enemas were also being used to treat cholera, constipation, and convulsions to varying degrees of reported success. Hmm… I wonder if they tried to treat colon cancer with it.

In 1811, a Brit surgeon and researcher named Benjamin Brodie proved that the nicotine in tobacco was a cardiac poison. Sales of Tobacco Smoke Enema Kits plummeted, thank you Dr. Killjoy.

But take heart… You can still pick up your own kit on eBay or Craigslist if you keep your eyes open.

Broadus

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