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clyster
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synonyms: bougie ???
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Definition:an enema or suppository---
Ambroise Paré. The Workes of that famous Chirurgion Ambrose Parey (published: Latin in 1579, English in 1649), p.713, https://archive.org/stream/workesofthatfamo00par#page/713/mode/1up
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they command us to take in at the orifice above or below (just as the physician then happens to be disposed) a medicine equally annoying and disgustful to the bowels; which, relaxing the belly, drives down all before it; and this they call a purge, or a clyster.
Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels Into Several Remote Regions of the World (1726)
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I instantly to Counsel went,
Unto an ambodexter Quack,
Who learnedly had got the Knack
Of giving Glisters, making Pills,
Of filling Bonds, and forging Wills;
Ebenezer Cook. The Sot-weed Factor
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They are troubled with all manner of distempers; and, indeed, all distempers are engendered and proceed from ventosities, as Hippocrates demonstrates, lib. De Flatibus. But the most epidemical among them is the wind-cholic. The remedies which they use are large clysters, whereby they void store of windiness.
François Rabelais. Gargantua and Pantagruel
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there is a certain recondite author of no small authority who says that the Knight of Phoebus, being caught in a certain pitfall, which opened under his feet in a certain castle, on falling found himself bound hand and foot in a deep pit underground, where they administered to him one of those things they call clysters, of sand and snow-water, that well-nigh finished him; and if he had not been succoured in that sore extremity by a sage, a great friend of his, it would have gone very hard with the poor knight;
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. Don Quixote
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A glyster was actually administered by an old woman of the family, who had been Sir Thomas's nurse, and the patient took a draught made with oxymel of squills to forward the operation of the antimonial wine, which had been retarded by the opiate of the preceding night.
Tobias Smollett. The Expedition of Humphry Clinker (1771)
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Ambroise Paré. The Workes of that famous Chirurgion Ambrose Parey (published: Latin in 1579, English in 1649), p.77, https://archive.org/stream/workesofthatfamo00par#page/77/mode/1up
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