>the history of medical science is nightmarish
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fumigation#Usages_m%C3%A9dicaux_anciens
Translation:
To cure female ailments that were then attributed mainly to the uterus, during Antiquity, the Greeks recommended oral, nasal or vaginal fumigations.

Vaginal fumigation was still practiced in the 19th century to combat infertility in a couple.