clyster

Honey containing medicaments were used in a wide variety of illnesses--internally, as gargles, pessaries or clysters, and as topical applications.

In some sense residing at the opposite dietetic pole of food intake, phlebotomy was an evacuative technique (along with purging, blistering, and the giving of clysters) that constituted a normative part of dietetic regimen.

Renaissance travelers sometimes prepared to start their physical journey by purging, either by clysters or emetics, and bloodletting (purgatio ac venae sectio).

De Graaf's authoritative 1668 work on the male regenerative organs, Tractatus de Virorum Organis Generationi Inservientibus, appeared in a volume that also included his brief essay on the syringe and the use of "clysters" (enemas), which had become enormously popular in Europe at the time.