(34.) For the importance of smell in this passage, see Saunders, "Iago's
Clyster," 170-71; and Dennis Kezar, "Shakespeare's Addictions," Critical Inquiry 30, no.1 (2003): 31-62, esp.
It was a huge pewter
clyster. I offered to show them how it worked, then told them it was, in fact, a large vet's enema syringe.
The accompanying article is in Catalan, the unique language of Barcelona's region, Cataluna; but we have an item from the Internet showing a report published in Time magazine of July 1, 1946, titled "The
Clyster Craze".
For Biggs,
clysters were something "to be abhorred as a cruel and beastly remedy." Every
clyster, he says, is "naturally an enemy to the Intestines." "Turds," on the other hand, are the "naturall and domestick content of the gutts" which do not "prick or gnaw ...
Test surface seawater was obtained 50 m offshore on the south coast of Singapore (SO in
clyster IV of Figure 1), and aliquots were subjected to SPE using C18, HLB, or diol cartridges, as described in "Materials and Methods." Basal sex hormone activity was detected in all samples, and activity was highest for the eluted extracts from C18 cartridges, and least with those from diol (Figure 2).
A thin, young, bespectacled apothecary kneels in profile, his cocked hat fallen to the ground; his wig is shaken out of place, his eyes bulge, his lips are pursed as he prepares to apply a huge
clyster syringe to an unseen lady -- we see only her discarded shoe, visible by the steaming jug.
The context in which this is said--a discussion on whether a
clyster should always precede venesection, or only in certain cases--suggests once again that Arabic authorities were most relevant to practical medicine.
Both when smelled and when used as a
clyster it does the same (5.71).
