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Speaker 2: the cutting room floor today. You like stories from medical journals,

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Speaker 2: don't you very much? So? Do you remember the olden

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Speaker 2: days they used to use leeches to cure various ailments.

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Speaker 1: Yes, they thought that by draining the blood or drawing

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Speaker 1: the blood is that we call its.

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Speaker 2: Drawing the blood out. And it was also they would

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Speaker 2: make people. You would draw blood out of people because

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Speaker 2: they thought that people had too much.

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Speaker 1: Blood and get out the bad humans.

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Speaker 3: But in a way as well, that is it kind

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Speaker 3: of is true.

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Speaker 2: If you've got too much iron, you go and you

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Speaker 2: go and get rid of a bit of a bit

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Speaker 2: of blood there.

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Speaker 1: And they used to put maggots onto here woods. They

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Speaker 1: do it again now they're still doing forms of that now.

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Speaker 2: One thing back many many years years ago, I'm thinking

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Speaker 2: about the eighteen hundreds.

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Speaker 3: Here there was a theory that to cure constipation.

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Speaker 2: You would get your practitioner to put fingers up your

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Speaker 2: bot bite and that would sort out the constation, probably

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Speaker 2: would us.

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Speaker 1: That's why he went into accountancy, so only how to

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Speaker 1: work something out with a pencil.

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Speaker 3: So there was a thing and an invention that was made.

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Speaker 1: Because the doctor said, let's invent something to stop me

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Speaker 1: having to do this.

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Speaker 3: I don't want to do this anymore.

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Speaker 2: So they came up with a rectal dilator, and rectal

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Speaker 2: dilation was something which would cure everything from constipation to mental.

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Speaker 1: Illness, so they thought.

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Speaker 2: In fact, the guy then invented the rectal dilator.

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Speaker 3: Doctor F. E.

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Speaker 2: Young wrote in one of his journals, which he was

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Speaker 2: the editor of as well. It was a magazine praise

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Speaker 2: rectal dilation as a cure you are for insanity, claiming

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Speaker 2: that at least three fourths of all the howling maniacs

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Speaker 2: in the world were curable in a few weeks after

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Speaker 2: they had a bit of his rectal dilation.

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Speaker 1: Before you get to exactly how it worked, I reckon

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Speaker 1: if you went into any emergency ward, there'd be a

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Speaker 1: variety of people who had been trying to do their

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Speaker 1: own ritual dilation.

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Speaker 3: I'm howling maniac.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so I put this broomstick up my bomb.

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Speaker 1: I fell over in the shower, and next minute my

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Speaker 1: mental illness was cured.

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Speaker 3: For some reason, an egg whisk went up there. So

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Speaker 3: what was his why it was in the shower. I

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Speaker 3: don't know what.

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Speaker 1: Well.

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Speaker 2: I've got a picture there, which doesn't help for people

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Speaker 2: in the podcast. But as you can see, they look

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Speaker 2: like four bombs that they would drop in World War two.

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Speaker 3: Spark plugs, yeah, spark plug no no.

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Speaker 2: I like the bombs getting dropped over the Germans in

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Speaker 2: World War two. And they were made of hard rubber,

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Speaker 2: and they came in sets of four sizes.

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Speaker 1: How do you know what size you are?

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Speaker 3: The instructions here were fine out see. I guess the.

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Speaker 2: Instructions were maybe used by any intelligent person. Their use

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Speaker 2: accomplishes for the invalid just what nature does daily for

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Speaker 2: the healthy individual.

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Speaker 1: Oh, it doesn't if you don't pierce it from the outside.

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Speaker 2: Ever, if you will prescribe a set of these dilators

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Speaker 2: in some of your obstinate cases of chronic constipation, you

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Speaker 2: will find them necessary in every case of this kind.

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Speaker 2: This is just word salad from the eighteen hundreds.

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Speaker 1: A salad would help word or otherwise.

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Speaker 3: So it starts with the little one there.

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Speaker 1: I see, So you just bore a bigger hole time.

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Speaker 3: Downy locks on the three. That's fine.

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Speaker 1: There was also this one's perfect.

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Speaker 2: There was a lot of to be used, directions to

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Speaker 2: be used only on prescription of a physician's advice, no doubt.

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Speaker 2: You go and see doctor young himself and you said, Doc,

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Speaker 2: I've got a head ache, and he goes, I've got someone.

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Speaker 1: Else says I've got a hang. Now I've got something

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Speaker 3: Got such the thing. But there's a whole rave members

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Speaker 3: of positories. That was a thing.

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Speaker 1: Well, you know, did you have la sets when you

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Speaker 1: grew up? Why don't we always talk about number two's

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Speaker 1: and bottoms on this podcast. That was a big deal

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Speaker 1: when I was younger. I don't know. It was my

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Speaker 1: mother's obsession, but we were constantly giving those little chocolate

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Speaker 1: blocks that were laxatives. Clearing you out was such a

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Speaker 1: big deal. Cod liver oil.

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Speaker 3: Did you ever have that cod liver oil on.

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Speaker 1: A spoon with a bit of maple syrup or something?

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Speaker 3: No, we have maple syrup. We just got the og,

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Speaker 3: just raw cod liver oil.

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Speaker 2: The kids these days are getting in a capsule in

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Speaker 2: avided flavored gummy or something fanitized by Guy Sebastian.

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Speaker 3: And his missus. Well, this is.

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Speaker 1: It's very specific. Whereas this one we had. Mum made

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Speaker 1: this solution of sulfur, and it's on a tea spoon

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Speaker 1: and you drink it, you know you had it was

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Speaker 1: a viscous.

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Speaker 2: My mom was telling me a story the other day

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Speaker 2: about my grandfather and grandmother. When she was little, she

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Speaker 2: had the worms all the time, and they used to

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Speaker 2: give her animas regularly to get rid of the worms.

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Speaker 1: My grandfather, my father, tells this same story that he

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Speaker 1: had a grandmother who used to come and visit. She'd

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Speaker 1: get off the train at Chiligo, yep, from Chiligo. She'd

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Speaker 1: come to visit them wherever they were living at the time,

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Speaker 1: and she brought her own apparatus with her. He said

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Speaker 1: it looked like a small tuba. And he still remembers

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Speaker 1: bending over and looking at the corner while she went

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Speaker 1: to work.

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Speaker 3: So what did she do? She just gave me an animal, gave.

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Speaker 1: Him an enema.

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Speaker 3: And what would that do? I clear you out?

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Speaker 1: I think everyone was obsessed with clearing you out.

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Speaker 3: Anima's good or bad for you.

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Speaker 1: They can be very bad. And people get obsessed to

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Speaker 1: those coffee animals and.

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Speaker 3: All that sort of stuff.

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Speaker 2: Well, because coffee is what it did. Yeah, and you

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Speaker 2: and your bum hole is quite a receptive area. That's

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Speaker 2: why that's try to take it to parties. That's why

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Speaker 2: the drugs. That's why that story about Stevie Nicks. I

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Speaker 2: don't know if this is urban myth or night, but

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Speaker 2: there was a roadie that used to blow cocaine up

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Speaker 2: abum because quick absorption, but also her septum was falling away.

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Speaker 1: Well, and she used the other septum. But this is

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Speaker 1: the stuff about suppositories. They're quickly absorbed through that part

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Speaker 1: of it.

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Speaker 3: That's a very sensitive area. The anus is quite an

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Speaker 3: amazing muscle. I really go with me on this.

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Speaker 2: Because it can it can release gas, it can release fluids,

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Speaker 2: and it can release solids.

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Speaker 3: It's quite amazing. It's quite what are you laughing at this?

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Speaker 1: Quite laughing at this is a podcast and we're talking,

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Speaker 1: we're broadcasting.

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Speaker 3: Because that's amazing stuff.

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Speaker 1: Why doesn't it have a ticket take parade? It does

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Speaker 1: it every day.

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Speaker 3: My wife's auntie, I know what this story is. She

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Speaker 3: had to get she had to get her anus measured.

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Speaker 1: Because it was was she going for one of these dilators.

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Speaker 3: It was too big and I thought.

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Speaker 1: I mean it was things falling out.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, there was troubles that the doctor size, measure it

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Speaker 2: with breaks out of measuring tape. I imagine, But Adie,

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Speaker 2: what's the standard size for your anus?

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Speaker 1: A doctor would know. I don't know. You know, let's

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Speaker 1: not speculate.

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Speaker 3: Because I'm always very mindful of my anus. I'm very

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Speaker 3: appreciative of it.

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Speaker 1: How do you make a living talking at it?

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Speaker 3: Well? You know, but it is, and I think maybe

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Speaker 3: we should all give it.

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Speaker 1: Don't have a day where we just wear a brown ribbon.

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Speaker 3: Brown ribbon day. This could be a thing. So there

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Speaker 3: you go. There we end this. Now there's a blast

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Speaker 3: from medical history.

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Speaker 1: Thank you.

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Speaker 3: Don't stuff things up your bottom?

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Speaker 1: Do you want to? And then that's your own

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Speaker 2: Business today you come back to them off for more

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