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What is a clyster?

What is a clyster? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (now rare) A medicine applied via the rectum; an enema or suppository.
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A clyster of tobacco-smoke may be thrown up as a last resort.
When the pain is extreme, warm fomentations to the belly, or a carminative clyster, will generally give relief.
In severe cases a clyster with ten or fifteen drops of liquor ammoni is said to do good.
Item, the clyster repeated in the evening, as above, thirty sous.
For more severe pain a clyster is useful, with a hot poultice upon the cheeks, and hot water containing certain medicaments held in the mouth and frequently changed.
Cnelius a physician being sent for, found his costiveness alone to be the cause, and thereupon gave him a clyster, by which he was speedily recovered.

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