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  • The "simplex" clyster syringe.
  • Bellows and clyster-pipes for artificial respiration.
  • Comte Lanceleau with a large clyster to disperse rioters. Lithograph, c. 1830.
  • A clyster in use. Oil painting by a French painter, ca. 1700(?).
  • A clyster in use. Oil painting by a French painter, ca. 1700(?).
  • A clyster in use. Oil painting by a French painter, ca. 1700(?).
  • A clyster in use. Oil painting by a French painter, ca. 1700(?).
  • A monkey holding a clyster in an apothecary's shop. Engraving after D. Teniers the younger.
  • The clyster is prepared for a glutton. Colour line engraving by J.J. Leveau after himself, 1762.
  • An old physician with a clyster attends to one of his patients. Lithograph by L. Morel-Retz.
  • Two Commedia dell'arte street entertainers using a clyster as part of their performance. Etching by J. Callot.
  • Two Commedia dell'arte street entertainers using a clyster as part of their performance. Etching after J. Callot.
  • Two Commedia dell'arte street entertainers using a clyster as part of their performance. Etching by J. Callot.
  • A wealthy man at his dinner table is offered a clyster by a servant. Lithograph by Tal-Zar.
  • A monkey holding a clyster in an apothecary's shop. Engraving by F. Basan after D. Teniers the younger.
  • Three 17th-century physicians with an assistant who carries a large clyster. Watercolour by E. Durandeau, 1876.
  • A physician with a garland of bottles, pill boxes and a clyster-pipe. Coloured etching after T. Rowlandson.
  • An injured patient, John Hill, in bed surrounded by a group of physicians. Etching by Clyster-Pipe after Bolus M.D., 1752.
  • A monkey surgeon prepares to treat a monkey patient with a clyster, the latest French fashion accessory. Line engraving, ca. 1660.
  • A monkey rejects the old style clyster for his new 'clyso-pompe', which he fills with opium and marshmallow. Coloured lithograph.
  • A monkey patient being treated by a monkey surgeon with a clyster, the latest French fashion accessory. Line engraving, c. 1660.
  • A revolutionary complains of bowel problems to a doctor; a clyster seat waits nearby. Lithograph by C.J. Traviès, c. 1833.
  • A man squirting a clyster in to somebody's mouth in order to cure his toothache, at a dinner table. Coloured etching.
  • A man and woman use a redeveloped clyster for scatological, intoxicating purposes (?). Coloured reproduction of an etching after G. de Cari.
  • A man and woman use a redeveloped clyster for scatological, intoxicating purposes (?). Coloured etching by P. Maleuvre after G. de Cari.
  • A man holding a pack of 'Jubol' medicine tells clyster-wielding physicians that they are now obsolete. Wood engraving by Henriot, c. 1885.
  • A regiment of clyster-wielding apothecaries orchestrated by General George Mouton de Lobau; representing his use of water-cannons in quelling riots. Lithograph by J.C., 1831.
  • A doctor with a garland of pill boxes, bottles and a clyster pipe; a publican with pipes, different bottles and a punch bowl. Etching after T. Rowlandson.
  • General Georges Mouton sits perched on an enormous clyster; representing his use of a prototype water-cannon in quelling an uprising. Lithograph after A. Desperret after Charles Philipon, c. 1831.
  • 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.