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Comic #1453

1 {scene: Dr Ginny Smith is driving the Joneses somewhere through Italy}
1 Minnesota Jones: It wasn't easy going, excavating Troy. The dry soil turned to dust as we dug, almost choking us.
2 Minnesota Jones: Schliemann himself suffered most. Each time he dug he went through this exaggerated coughing routine to clear his throat.
3 Minnesota Jones: We called it the "Heinrich Manoeuvre".

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Sadly for period accuracy, the Heimlich manoeuvre was first described in 1974, and there's no way the Joneses in the 1930s could even know that this is a pun*.

In 2006 the Red Cross adopted the more descriptive name of abdominal thrusts to replace the more colourful Heimlich manoeuvre, named after Doctor Henry Heimlich.

* Hey, this is better than those stupid movies that are blatantly anachronistic, but blithely ignore it.

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