It is an archaic word for enema, more particularly for enemas administered using a " clyster syringe " that is, a syringe with a rectal nozzle and a plunger rather than a bulb.
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In several of his plays, Moli�re depicted the physicians of his day as pompous individuals who speak ( poor ) Latin to impress others with false erudition, and know only clysters and bleedings as ( ineffective ) remedies.
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In medieval times appear the first illustrations of enema equipment, a clyster syringe consisting of a tube attached to a pump action bulb made of a pig bladder and the 15th century Simple piston syringe clysters came into use.
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In medieval times appear the first illustrations of enema equipment, a clyster syringe consisting of a tube attached to a pump action bulb made of a pig bladder and the 15th century Simple piston syringe clysters came into use.
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The " catholicon for clysters ", which was injected into the rectum, only differed from this in that it had no rhubarb, and that honey was used instead of sugar when mixing the drug with water in forming the electuary.
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According to Claude de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon, clysters were so popular at the court of King Burgundy had her servant give her a clyster in front of the King ( her modesty being preserved by an adequate posture ) before going to the comedy.
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According to Claude de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon, clysters were so popular at the court of King Burgundy had her servant give her a clyster in front of the King ( her modesty being preserved by an adequate posture ) before going to the comedy.
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The wreck of Blackbeard's flagship, the " Queen Anne's Revenge ", has since been discovered and found to include a urethral syringe ( used to treat syphilis ), pump clysters ( used to provide enemas ), a porringer ( possibly for bloodletting ), and a brass mortar and pestle for preparing medicine.
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When clyster syringes were in use in Europe, the patient was placed in an appropriate position ( kneeling, with the buttocks raised, or lying on the side ); a servant or apothecary would then insert the nozzle into the anus and depress the plunger, resulting in the liquid remedy ( generally, water, but also some other preparations ) being injected into the colon.
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In the 16th century, satirists made physicians a favorite target, resembling Moli�re's caricature whose prescription for anything was " clyster, bleed, purge, " or " purge, bleed, clyster . " In Roper's biography of his father-in-law Sir Thomas More, he tells of Thomas More's eldest daughter falling sick of the sweating sickness.
