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preparations. tobacco was thought to be a stimulant, and thus a solution of tobacco, given as an enema, was used to revive patients. presumably, using tobacco smoke instead was a last-ditch effort when a liquid enema was not possible. later, when nicotine was found to be a cardiac toxin, this practice died
: mayuree pare, . however, though this bit of bizarre medical history appears to be true, its association with the present idiom is dubious, as the medical practice died out long before this idiom first appeared in english, sometime during the s. it is unlikely this long-ago medical practice could have...
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