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  • A man is blown out of a window by an enema. Engraving.
  • Candlesticks: One figure has an enema; the other has a stomach ache.
  • Candlesticks: One figure has an enema; the other has a stomach ache.
  • An enema administered to a naked man. Photograph, 1890/1920, of a Persian drawing.
  • A group of dandies stand by while a lady's dog receives an enema. Coloured engraving.
  • A group of dandies stand by while a lady's dog receives an enema. Coloured engraving.
  • Administration of an enema, Ivory Coast, Africa. From a photograph in the possession of Dr. Bockbank.
  • A beloved pet dog receives an enema. Line engraving by de Launay the younger after Lavrinet.
  • A Frenchman receiving an enema from a Hungarian apothecary by order of a Dutch doctor. Etching, 1742.
  • A fashionable lady being given an enema by a charming young man. Line engraving by Dicuelt, 18--.
  • A fashionable lady being given an enema by a charming young man. Line engraving by Dicuelt, 18--.
  • A nurse gives a man an enema. Colour line engraving by C.J.D. Eisen after himself, 1762.
  • A motley crew surround a dead man who is being administered a late enema. Lithograph by Lemoine, c. 1900.
  • President George H.W. Bush and Barbara Pierce Bush represented as members of "the Rich White Penis Club", with speech bubbles; anti-government protest about US AIDS policies by Enema Productions. Photocopy.
  • A doctor administers an enema to a dog; other bandaged animals sit nearby. Coloured lithograph by C. Jacque, c. 1843.
  • A peeping-tom spying on a fashionable lady receiving an enema. Reproduction of a line engraving after P. Maleuvre after P.A. Baudouin.
  • A peeping-tom spying on a fashionable lady receiving an enema. Reproduction of a line engraving after P. Maleuvre after P.A. Baudouin.
  • Surrounded by ghoulish apparitions, a manic priest carries an enema towards a wretchedly praying man. Aquatint with etching by F. Goya, c. 1797.
  • Two maids confer on whether to 'refresh' a sick man even further by putting cold water into his enema. Lithograph by Cham, c. 1840.
  • Angola: a Kwanyama woman performing an enema on a small child: with the child placed across her lap the woman prepares a tube. Photograph by Antoinette Powell-Cotton, 1936/1937.
  • Marianne wearing a Phrygian hat is being chased by a doctor holding an enema and a trade-unionist holding a flag. Colour lithograph by M.R., 25 June 1910.
  • 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 sick frog is administered an enema by one of his companions; other frogs, some anthropomorphised, some not, stand by. Etching with drypoint by F-D. Hillemacher after N. Poussin, 1885.
  • A gentlemen pays an unexpected call on a lady friend only to discover she is in the middle of having an enema. Line engraving by F. Dequevauviller, 1786, after N. Lafrensen the younger.
  • A gentlemen pays an unexpected call on a lady friend only to discover she is in the middle of having an enema. Line engraving by F. Dequevauviller, 1786, after N. Lafrensen the younger.
  • A decrepit Louis-Philippe is made ready for an enema by François Guizot; symbolising Guizot's domination of the French government towards the end of the July monarchy. Lithograph by J.E. Deshayes, c. 1848.
  • A French soldier boasts that he and six others have 'evacuated' 300 Mexicans from a square;a military surgeon, holding an enema, counters that he has 'evacuated' many more single-handed. Coloured lithograph by Draner (Jules Renard).
  • A physician, enema in hand, quotes Hippocrates on the importance of the stomach in the 'administration' of the body; a green-hued patient cowers behind. Colour photomechanical reproduction of a lithograph by D.T. de Losques, 1910.
  • An apothecary attempts to give an Englishman an enema but is restrained by an American; medical aid is prevented by a Frenchman and Spaniard; representing the problems caused for the English by the American war for independence. Line engraving, 1778.
  • An apothecary attempts to give an Englishman an enema but is restrained by an American; medical aid is prevented by a Frenchman and Spaniard; representing the problems caused for the English by the American war for independence. Line engraving, 1778.