Anal oxygen administration may save lives
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Anal oxygen administration may save lives
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#2Archive.org link:
https://web.archive.org/web/20210514233706/https://www.econo...
This article reminded me of the bizarre source of the expression to "Blow smoke up your arse":
http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2014/05/origin-expre...
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#3The idiom ‘Blow Smoke Up Your Ass’ comes from tobacco enema. It seems that they almost got it right. Instead of smoke, oxygen should be used.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tobacco_smoke_enema
>A tobacco smoke enema, an insufflation of tobacco smoke into the rectum, i.e. as an enema, was employed by the indigenous peoples of North America to stimulate respiration, injecting the smoke with a rectal tube.[1][2]
>Later, Europeans emulated the Americans.[3] Tobacco resuscitation kits consisting of a pair of bellows and a tube were provided by the Royal Humane Society of London and placed at various points along the Thames.[4] European physicians furthermore employed these enemas for a range of ailments.[3
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#4I wish paywalled articles were banned from HN. Just because I can bypass it does not mean it’s worth the effort.
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#6I believe the liquid they are mentioning was featured in the movie The Abyss. It is painful for humans to breathe the liquid. But apparently giving you an enema with it works! Amazing.
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#7I wish paywalled articles were banned from HN. Just because I can bypass it does not mean it’s worth the effort.
Unless you've been living under a rock, you should have noticed that most news publications are now paywalled. It's annoying but you can't just ban journalism. Blogs are dead, smaller websites are drowned by spam and new search engine "algorithms", and if you want a somewhat authoritative news piece you'll find yourself increasingly having to go behind a paywall.
What would be nice to see is a universal micropayment system instead of ads and subscriptions, but after a decade or so of nobody implementing one, be glad you can still read what you can without having to spend $200 a month on a dozen subscriptions to cover your needs.
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#8I wish paywalled articles were banned from HN. Just because I can bypass it does not mean it’s worth the effort.
The Economist is particularly easy though - just turn off JavaScript.
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#9I confess my first thought was mixing oxygen in a methane environment inside the body isn't ideal.
And this isn't a joke..... for example, cyclopropane is an excellent anaesthetic gas but no longer used due to the explosion risk. I believe (?) there was a case of a patients throat catching fire on the operating table.
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#10Archive.org link: https://web.archive.org/web/20210514233706/https://www.econo... This article reminded me of the bizarre source of the expression to "Blow smoke up your arse": http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2014/05/origin-expre...
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