Sentence examples for clyster from inspiring English sources

By the seventeenth century — the enema's "golden age" — primitive bellows made of an animal bladder attached to a wooden or bone tube were replaced by a piston-and-cylinder device of copper or porcelain, which was known as a clyster.

In addition to its suggestion of clysters and bleeding (often "in the foot") and the drinking of wine, the editors provided a note on "Pocket-Medicines": "Pocket-Medicines, in surgery, those which a surgeon ought to carry always about him, in a box or convenient case.

(Poisoned clysters became a popular murder weapon for the aristocracy; one would rather not imagine how these dark deeds were avenged).

In Night, too, O'Brien's ear is for all time, for all seasons, bodying forth the Old Irish ("leum", "stotious"), the Modern Irish ("joxer"), Victorian usage ("quim"), Middle English ("valerian", "clysters", "thills"), and Greek ("sphagnum"), as well as a hundred Jacobean parries and some jaunty words – in the Joycean tradition – she made up herself ("seasous", "cremeled").

He was the Romantic, head full of horrors, who watched his victims die, who studied agony among the leeches and clysters of a penal colony hospital when he was finally transported to Australia.