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.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference

Glister-pipe Ð also known as a clyster-pipe.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Noble Spanish Soldier] Reference

But if the bowels appear to be constipated, administer a soothing clyster.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Regimen In Acute Diseases] Reference

Yet again your fingers to your lips? would they were clyster-pipes for your sake!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Othello, the Moore of Venice] Reference

Etymology: Middle English, from Old English clyster; akin to Old English clott clot.    From Wordnik.com.  [Think Progress » A Toxic Anniversary] Reference

There is no reason to doubt that the clyster and phlebotomy enjoyed as wide usage in colonial Virginia as in.    From Wordnik.com.  [Medicine in Virginia, 1607-1699] Reference

The fruit is a drastic purgative, and an infusion of it is used either internally or in the form of clyster.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c.] Reference

Molière, in his seventeenth-century satires on the European medical profession, ridicules the excessive use of the clyster.    From Wordnik.com.  [Medicine in Virginia, 1607-1699] Reference

Pangloss; “my dear friend, I have not a penny in the world; and you know one cannot be bled or have a clyster without money.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Candide] Reference

Dr. Blanton, the historian of medicine, could find only meager references to the use of clyster (or glyster) and he sums them up as follows.    From Wordnik.com.  [Medicine in Virginia, 1607-1699] Reference

Took a clyster in the morning and rose in the afternoon.    From Wordnik.com.  [Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete] Reference

We made him sick with hot butter and gave him a strong clyster.    From Wordnik.com.  [Australia Twice Traversed, Illustrated,] Reference

A man breaks his leg -- 'Give him a clyster!' says Prothero.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Honourable Mr. Tawnish] Reference

A boy has the collywobbles or mumps -- 'A clyster! 'says Prothero.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Honourable Mr. Tawnish] Reference

May the great devil give them a clyster with his red-hot three-pronged fork.    From Wordnik.com.  [Droll Stories — Volume 3] Reference

In some obstinate cases, alum whey has been employed in the form of a clyster.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dog] Reference

(I thank thee, good landlord; by this thou hast e'en saved me the expense of a clyster.).    From Wordnik.com.  [Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 4] Reference

Put the patient into a warm bath, and throw up a clyster of warmish water when he is in it.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of Household Management] Reference

Sometimes by change of posture, or by an opiate either taken into the stomach, or by a clyster.    From Wordnik.com.  [Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life] Reference

I paid ten st. at the apothecary's, and gave his wife fourteen st. for the clyster and himself.    From Wordnik.com.  [Albert Durer] Reference

But the man who had helped the lad to administer the poisoned clyster, the under-keeper Weston, was at hand.    From Wordnik.com.  [She Stands Accused] Reference

There was a partial absence of the peritoneal sac, and the obstruction readily yielded to a clyster and laxative.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine] Reference

Anon, about 8 o'clock, my wife did give me a clyster which Mr. Hollyard directed, viz., a pint of strong ale, 4 oz.    From Wordnik.com.  [Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete] Reference

And this long-necked fowl will give itself a clyster with its beak, whenever it finds itself too costive or feverish.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Westover Manuscripts: Containing the History of the Dividing Line Betwixt Virginia and North Carolina; A Journey to the Land of Eden, A. D. 1733; and A Progress to the Mines. Written from 1728 to 1736, and Now First Published] Reference

A clyster of half a pint of gruel, and 30 drops of laudanum; or a grain of opium and six grains of rhubarb every night.    From Wordnik.com.  [Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life] Reference

Castor, with sinapisms externally; to which must be added a clyster of cold water, or iced water; which, according to Mons.    From Wordnik.com.  [Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life] Reference

I was informed of a case, where solutions of mercurial ointment were used as a clyster every night for a month without success.    From Wordnik.com.  [Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life] Reference

We dosed Mustara with butter as an emetic, and he also threw up nothing but the chewed Gyrostemon; the clyster produced the same.    From Wordnik.com.  [Australia Twice Traversed, Illustrated,] Reference

Anon, about 8 o'clock, my wife did give me a clyster which Mr. Hollyard directed, viz., a pint of strong ale, 4 oz. of sugar, and 2 oz.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Sep/Oct 1663]

A clyster, which I did, and it wrought very well and brought a great deal of wind, which I perceive is all that do trouble me.    From Wordnik.com.  [Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete] Reference