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A monkey surgeon prepares to treat a monkey patient with a clyster, the latest French fashion accessory. Line engraving, ca. 1660.
Date: [1660?]Reference: 17509i
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A man squirting a clyster in to somebody's mouth in order to cure his toothache, at a dinner table. Coloured etching.
Reference: 16501i
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A man and woman use a redeveloped clyster for scatological, intoxicating purposes (?). Coloured reproduction of an etching after G. de Cari.
Cari, Godissart de, active 1820.Reference: 16235iPart of: Musée grotesque
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A man and woman use a redeveloped clyster for scatological, intoxicating purposes (?). Coloured etching by P. Maleuvre after G. de Cari.
Cari, Godissart de, active 1820.Reference: 16231iPart of: Musée grotesque
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A man holding a pack of 'Jubol' medicine tells clyster-wielding physicians that they are now obsolete. Wood engraving by Henriot, c. 1885.
Henriot, 1857-1933.Reference: 16804i
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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.
C., J., active 1830-1831.Date: 1831Reference: 16378i
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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.
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827.Reference: 16029i
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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.
Philipon, Charles, 1800-1862.Date: 1831Reference: 16445i
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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.
Riou, Édouard, 1833-1900.Date: [1873]Reference: 26072i
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Three long-faced physicians prepare a clyster for a pallid young woman; representing Thiers and two other ministers attending to France amidst her troubles after 1848. Lithograph by C. Vernier, 1849.
Vernier, Charles, 1831-1887.Date: 4 September 1849Reference: 16532iPart of: Actualités
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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.
Faivre, Abel, 1867-1945.Date: 22 March 1902Reference: 17071i- E-books
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A letter from the facetious Dr. Andrew Tripe at Bath, to his loving brother the profound Greshamite, ... With an appendix concerning the application of Socrates his clyster, and the use of clean linnen in controversy
Wagstaffe, William
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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.
Schenau, Johann Eleazar, 1737-1806.Reference: 20227i
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A hybrid of a cannon and a clyster is attended by General Georges Mouton and Gabriel Delessert, the chief of police; representing their use of the water-cannon to dispel an uprising. Coloured lithograph.
Reference: 16379iPart of: Caricatures politiques
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A physician administering a clyster to an embarrassed woman who hides her self and presents her behind through a window, female friends observe the scene. Photograph after a stone bas-relief in Bruges archaeological museum.
Reference: 20223i
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A satyr on a pedestal kicks out at a magician while a priestess attempts to insert a clyster-pipe; depicting a play called 'The Golden Rump' representing King George II with his wife and Sir Robert Walpole. Engraving, 1737.
Date: Publish'd according to Act of Parliament 1737Reference: 12161i
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Jules Grévy takes the pulse of Marshal Macmahon, who lies sick in bed with a priest and another man; they are choking from the fumes of their burning bed; Léon Gambetta emerges from behind the scenes carrying a clyster. Coloured wood engraving, 1879.
Date: 22 February 1879Reference: 16941i
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Dissertatio medica inauguralis, de clystere / [Joannes Diaper].
Diaper, Joannes.Date: 1754- Books
Rechter und nutzlicher Gebrauch, ordenliche Vermischung und Zubereyttung aller Laxativen, purgierender oder treibender Artzney, eynfacher, gemeyner unvermischter Stuck, auch vermischter und zusamen gesetzter, treibender Artzney, mancherley Compositzen von Latwergen, Täflin, Getränck, Pulver, Clyster, Stulzäpflin, Pillen unnd dergleichen Vermischung, den Leib zureynigen und purgieren / [Walther Hermann Ryff].
Ryff, Walther Hermann, -1548Date: 1541- Books
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Rechter und nutzlicher Gebrauch, ordenliche Vermischung und Zubereyttung aller Laxativen, purgierender oder treibender Artzney, eynfacher, gemeyner unvermischter Stuck, auch vermischter und zusamen gesetzter, treibender Artzney, mancherley Compositzen von Latwergen, Täflin, Getränck, Pulver, Clyster, Stulzäpflin, Pillen unnd dergleichen Vermischung, den Leib zureynigen und purgieren / [Walther Hermann Ryff].
Ryff, Walther Hermann, -1548.Date: 1541- Books
Michaelis Bernhardi Valentini, Prof. medici ..., Polychresta exotica in curandis affectibus contumacissimis probatissima, scil. fabae S. Ignatii, ipecacuanha, pedra del porco, china chinae, clyster tabacinus, panacea Gallorum [mercurialis], ut et nova herniarum cura. Accedunt seorsim olim editae, nunc autem ... conjunctim denuõ prodeuntes dissertationes epistolicae varii argumenti. Cum fig. aeneis / [Michael Bernhard Valentini].
Valentini, Michael Bernhard, 1657-1729.Date: 1700
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Four men whose distorted shadows are cast on the wall:a an apothecary casting the shadow of a clyster, a censor casting the shadow of a devil, a hereditary peer casting the shadow of a pig, and a Jesuit casting the shadow of a turkey. Coloured lithograph by J.J. Grandville, 1830.
Grandville, J. J., 1803-1847.Date: [1830]Reference: 32782i
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A trio of quack doctors attending to Britannia: the Earl of Bute with an ass's head blindfolds a woman who is vomiting into a bowl held by Louis XV as a baboon: Tobias Smollett takes her pulse;while Henry Fox approaches her with a clyster-pipe; representing the loss of British assets to France in the Treaty of Paris. Etching attributed to Paul Sandby, 1762.
Sandby, Paul, 1731-1809Date: [1762]Reference: 12163i
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Caricature of bloodletting, clysters,...
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Notes on clysters, suppositories and purgatives, from Jean Fernel
Date: Late 16th centuryReference: MS.6228/1Part of: English Medical Notebook, 16th-Century