Nicholas Senn: The Doctor Who Blew Hydrogen Gas Up His Patient's Asses

[packman]

Say, you get shot in the stomach. You go to a doctor. The doctor pulls down your pants and starts pumping hydrogen gas up your ass. Then he sets you on fire. Sounds familiar? No? Then you’ve been going to the wrong doctor.

Let me introduce you to Dr. Nicholas Senn, an American surgeon and founder of the Association of Military Surgeons of the United States. He was the president of the American Medical Association in 1897–98 and the chief surgeon of the Sixth Army Corps during the Spanish–American War in 1898




One of those "Believe it or Not" stories. Interesting read:

https://www.amusingplanet.com/2020/02/nicholas-senn-doctor-who-blew-hydrogen.html

[Just_Vote_Dem]

1. Reminds me of a George Carlin line

"Up your ass with Mobil Gas"

[CentralMass]

2. Now that teally burns my @$$.

[mopinko]

3. ty. there is a big high school here named after him, and i had no idea who he was.

i knew there was some military bit, and had a vague whiff of medicine, but that's about it.
embarrassing, as my oldest went there.

[Yavin4]

5. Didn't the school's nickname give it away?

"The Blazing Farts"

[mr_lebowski]

4. S'pose that's one way to cauterize a wound (nt)

[mitch96]

6. Maybe he thought his patients were the precursors of the BLIMP? ........... nt

[Major Nikon]

7. Makes lighting your farts a lot more effective