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Definition of Clysters
1. clyster [n] - See also: clyster
Lexicographical Neighbors of Clysters
Literary usage of Clysters
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Reformed Cattle Doctor: Containing ... Information for by George H. Dadd (1851)
"FORMS OF clysters. Laxative Clyster. Warm water, . ... Either of the above clysters
is useful in obstinate constipation, " stoppage," or whenever the ..."
2. Outlines of a New Theory of Disease: Applied to Hydropathy, Showing that by Heinrich F. Francke (1849)
"It is certainly true, that when, by clysters, a slime crisis has been excited in
the bowels, they cannot be left off till the crisis is at an end, ..."
3. Lead Diseases: With Notes and Additions on the Use of Lead Pipe and Its by Louis Tanquerel des Planches, Samuel Luther Dana (1848)
"These clysters were composed like that called painters' purgative, ... The first
clysters do not generally overcome the constipation, or diminish the pain. ..."
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