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Can The Bert Show Handle Smelling Salts Or Will They Go HYSTERICAL?

The Bert Show

The Bert Show

Entertainment News, Society & Culture, Comedy, News

4.14.4K Ratings

🗓️ 11 February 2025

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

Can The Bert Show handle what women of yore had to smell when they were in the middle of "hysterics"?! We've got #SmellingSalts! Take a whiff!

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0:00.0

Cabin crew, prepare for landing.

0:02.6

Wow, that was a quick flight.

0:04.4

Never mind, Bondi Beach, barrier, reef, here we come.

0:07.8

Holiday of a lifetime, cannot wait.

0:10.2

Me neither.

0:12.5

Ladies and gentlemen, we'll shortly be landing in Austria.

0:16.1

Austria? We're supposed to be going to Australia.

0:19.6

What have you done?

0:21.9

Should have gone to spec, save us.

0:23.8

Book an eye test online.

0:25.3

Um, has anyone got any long trousers I could borrow?

0:28.1

I've only got a bikini, Andy.

0:32.3

The Bert Show.

0:33.4

So I can't wait to find out like what back in the day people considered women having hysterics really, really look like.

0:40.3

And then what you had to do to calm the women down around here.

0:44.1

So hysteria back in the Victorian era, women would carry a vial of what's called smelling salts around with them, which is ammonia, essentially.

0:52.4

And it would be prescribed for hysterics.

0:56.0

That is an outdated medical term.

0:57.7

Obviously, it's not used anymore, but they would faint and swoon and be all emotional.

1:01.8

And sometimes they would have, I mean, that went on forever.

1:05.0

But it was Hippocrates posited that the wandering womb, woman's wombs got out of place and the smelling salts put it back in place, allowing them to focus and gain consciousness.

1:15.6

Really? That was the theory?

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