clyster
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of clyster
1350–1400; Middle English < Latin < Greek klystēr, equivalent to *klyd- (base of klýzein to rinse out; cf. cataclysm) + -tēr agent noun suffix
Example Sentences
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The17th Century was the Golden Age of the enema, or clyster as it was then called.
From Time Magazine Archive
Then let him stir up the woman's pains by giving her some sharp clyster, to excite her throes to bear down, and bring forth the child.
The purgatives employed consisted of a decoction of senna, mixed with prune juice, with a little rhubarb or fresh linseed oil, infused in their drink, or applied as a clyster in warm water slightly salted.
From On the cattle plague: or, Contagious typhus in horned cattle. Its history, origin, description, and treatment by Bourguignon, Honor?
What a misfortune not to take a clyster prescribed by Mr. Purgon!
From The Imaginary Invalid by Wall, Charles Heron
When the diarrhœa becomes fetid and bloody, give, night and morning, a clyster composed of a decoction of Peruvian bark, and a teaspoonful of powdered charcoal from the poplar, well sifted.
From On the cattle plague: or, Contagious typhus in horned cattle. Its history, origin, description, and treatment by Bourguignon, Honor?
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