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  • post_trains [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Slamming a shot of laudanum and reaming out my asshole to cure my asthma.

    • TheCaconym [any]
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      4 years ago

      "Your ass may hurt a bit at first so here, also take home a shitload of opium"

      • Rodentsteak [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        Actually cocaine was primarily used as a topical anaesthetic (It still is). So, y'know, just use more blow.

        Actually it technically still is. If necessary a doctor can apply cocaine nasally to numb the area, it's sold as "Goprelto" or "Neurocaine".

    • mazdak
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      1 year ago

      deleted by creator

    • NephewAlphaBravo [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      My people, do not become accustomed to having a dilator up your ass, you will become addicted and resent its absence

    • Nebbit [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      "Why, then, in the name of pity and kindness, do these men not apply the dilators each to himself or to each other?" Believe me I ask myself this every day.

    • fx8690gii [he/him, he/him]
      hexagon
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      4 years ago

      Young admitted that some patients panicked at the sight of the devices.

      :soviet-bashful:

    • KurdKobein [any]
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      4 years ago

      An 1893 Medical News editorial noted that "Dr. Young" himself, writing in another journal of which he was the editor, praised rectal dilation as a cure for insanity, claiming that at least "three-fourths of all the howling maniacs of the world" were curable "in a few weeks' time by the application of orificial methods".

      • Rodentsteak [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        Haemorrhoids are treated with topical medication that dilate the blood vessels

        I'll admit I haven't seen a haemorrhoid patient in real life yet, nor do I plan to. But I don't think this is right, The medical treatment of haemorrhoids is mostly done with ligation (Or they're just cut out, but that's not the norm), but only if a regiment of improved diet, exercise and haemorrhoid cream hasn't worked (Or it is suspected it won't work). And haemorrhoid cream can contain a lot of stuff, like vaso constrictors analgesics, or some sort of barrier like petroleum jelly. But not a vasoDILATOR as far as I can tell. Like I don't even see how you would treat them with a vasodilator, vasodilation is sort of the opposite of what you want if you want the haemorrhoids to go away. (On a related topic: I don't even think you even treat vericose veins with vasoactive drugs IIRC, since they don't respond to those drugs.)

        Also, I don't think you can treat them at all by stimulation. I don't... I don't understand how that would work mechanically. Edit: If this were true we could treat them by spanking, and by your analysis we could treat vericose veins by slapping people's legs or pinching. )Or just by having people run around.)

  • VolcelPolice [any]
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    4 years ago

    Inventing a time machine to go back in time and arrest the doctors prescribing rectal dilators