This was attempted with James Garfield after his assassination attempt. Didn't work.I thought the bowel did? Hence rectal feeding, read about it in this awful report about torture doctors in Guantanamo bay..
For people on hunger strike, so they could have been putting in mush with nutrients and hydration, but they were also shoving up proper hard food… just to be horrible I guess.
There’s some very fucked up reasons that shithole can’t be shut down after all this time
It was also done to some women with hyperemesis gravidarum before IV therapy was perfected. If nothing else, at least they got some hydration from it. However, they would use all kinds of concoctions, like honey, eggs, milk, etc.
(Some pediatric nurses swear by milk and molasses enemas for severely constipated children, a time-worn remedy if there ever was one.)
Like our pal, Dr. Sidhbh?Makes you wonder if the ones doing trans surgeries are the ones that barely passed their exams and had to be put someplace to not hurt normal people.