Waterboarding, 18th-century style.
From the page:
"Water Torture
In order to best carry out this form of torture, the accused was placed on a kind of 'rack' that consisted, in one of its forms, of a large table with a raised center.
After tying the hands and feet of the vict...
dude, these guys [inventors] needed some hallucinogens to ease the mind, cuz they were way too fucked in the head to be allowed in public, if this is what they felt torture should be
in the words of arthur fonzarelli, "sit on it"
