NOUN
- an injection of a liquid through the anus to stimulate evacuation; sometimes used for diagnostic purposes
How To Use clyster In A Sentence
- Clysters he prated on; electuaries; troches; the weed that the Gael of him called _slanlus_ or Doom Castle
- Conclusion (1) Fill a doctor's prescription reasonably, clyster drip can descend effectively hypernatremia.
- If it be quinsy or any other of the pleuritic affections, purge with electuaries; but if the patient be weaker, or if you abstract more blood, you may administer a clyster every third day, until he be out of danger, and enjoin total abstinence if necessary. On Regimen In Acute Diseases
- Curious to say the clyster is almost unknown to the people of Hindostan although the barbarous West Africans use it daily to “wash ‘um belly,” as the Bonney-men say. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
- If costiveness offend in this, or any other of the three species, it is to be corrected with suppositories, clysters or lenitives, powder of senna, condite prunes, &c. Anatomy of Melancholy
- When the flatus is offensive, either a suppository or clyster is to be administered; but otherwise the oxymel is to be discontinued, until the matters descend to the lower part of the bowels, and then they are to be evacuated by a clyster. On Regimen In Acute Diseases
- Walter Bruel would have a practitioner begin first with a clyster of his, which he prescribes before bloodletting: the common sort, as Mercurialis, Montaltus cap. Anatomy of Melancholy
- On the sixth, in the morning, in a quiet state; in the evening the pains greater; had a paroxysm; in the evening the bowels properly opened by a small clyster; slept at night. Of The Epidemics
- On the second day all the symptoms were exacerbated; late in the evening had a proper stool from a small clyster; the night quiet. Of The Epidemics
- If the bark clysters should bring on costiveness the laudanum may occasionally be omitted; if this is not attended with the desired consequences, we have recourse to a common injection.