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  • A man is blown out of a window by an enema. Engraving.
  • A man administers a clyster to a greedy little boy who is laying across his mothers lap, his two siblings watch the scene with amusement. Engraving by J. Ouvrier after J.E. Schenau.
  • A woman surgeon and her assistant cupping a patient. Oil painting after Cornelis Dusart.
  • An army of demons armed with clysters, one of which is a huge cannon, attack a man tied to a tree; suggesting the awful experience of having an enema. Pen drawing.
  • A wealthy man at his dinner table is offered a clyster by a servant. Lithograph by Tal-Zar.
  • A medical consultation while a patient dies; a group of soldiers with a family; men in an artist's loft. Coloured lithograph c. 1840.
  • M0007185: Manuscript illustration from <i>Medicina Antiqua</i> depicting the use of coriander for enemas
  • A man holding a pack of 'Jubol' medicine tells clyster-wielding physicians that they are now obsolete. Wood engraving by Henriot, c. 1885.
  • A gentleman compares the size of his syringe with a physician's clyster; he says that his is for the other side of the body. Process print after J-A. Faivre, 1902.
  • A woman surgeon and her assistant cupping a patient. Etching by C. Dusart, 1695.
  • A monkey surgeon prepares to treat a monkey patient with a clyster, the latest French fashion accessory. Line engraving, ca. 1660.
  • A clyster in use. Oil painting by a French painter, ca. 1700(?).
  • A man administers a clyster to a greedy little boy who is laying across his mothers lap, his two siblings watch the scene with amusement. Engraving by J. Ouvrier after J.E. Schenau.
  • King Louis XIV receives an enema while sitting on a globe of the earth, thus besmearing it with ordure; around him, chaos reigns; symbolising the events following the Protestant rebellions of 1674 including the flight of the royal family from England in 1689. Engraving by R. de Hooghe, c. 1689.
  • Carnival at Cuzco: a small Indian woman with a clyster pulls at a sheet worn by a man, who is holding an uprooted tree; representing malaria. Wood engraving by T. Hildebrand after E. Riou, 1869.
  • A woman surgeon and her assistant cupping a patient. Oil painting after Cornelis Dusart.
  • Jets of water spray naked young women on a bed; suggesting the connection between enemas and eroticism. Process print after an engraving by P.L. Auvray after J.H. Fragonard.
  • A group of dandies stand by while a lady's dog receives an enema. Coloured engraving.
  • A goat-headed man caresses a sleeping ewe-headed woman; representing the notion of animal magnetism and its application by physicians. Etching after M. Voltz (?), 1815.
  • The countries of Europe representing physicians and surgeons trying to regenerate a woman personifying the Dutch republic. Etching attributed to James Gillray, 1796, after David Hess.
  • Ethical products of Fletcher, Fletcher & Co. Ltd., prescribable on form E.C.10.
  • A Frenchman receiving an enema from a Hungarian apothecary by order of a Dutch doctor. Etching, 1742.
  • A monkey holding a clyster in an apothecary's shop. Engraving by F. Basan after D. Teniers the younger.
  • A clyster in use. Oil painting by a French painter, ca. 1700(?).
  • A fierce battle between the supporters of John Brown (Bruno), in favour of treatment with stimulants, and those of F.J.V. Broussais, in favour of bloodletting. Pen drawing.
  • Mercury lies dying from cholera, surrounded by ministers; representing the sickly state of the French economy in the 1830s. Coloured etching, c. 1832.
  • A woman patient at a spa is told by her doctor that the treatment for her fertility might be helped by the presence of a 'diverting friend' - i.e. him. Lithograph by M. Stephane, c. 1896.
  • A barber-surgeon attending to a man's forehead. Oil painting.
  • A clyster in use. Oil painting by a French painter, ca. 1700(?).
  • A woman surgeon and her assistant cupping a patient. Oil painting after Cornelis Dusart.