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TOBACCO ENEMA PUMP

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CHARRIERE

Production date

1860

Production organisations

CHARRIERE

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Dating from the 1860s this tobacco enema pipe is a literal tool to “blow smoke up one’s arse.” Tobacco is a stimulant and its warmth and stimulation was initially used in western medicine to treat “apparent death” for example when someone had drowned it could be used as a method of revival. By the time this pipe was produced the practice of reviving drowned people with smoke in their rectum had passed, so this one was more likely used to treat hernias, constipation or convulsions.