clusters

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To clear his bowels they gave him strong purgatives and a brisk succession of clysters.

From Time Magazine Archive

Drug therapeutics, clysters, and bloodletting did by no means exhaust the seventeenth-century physician's treatments and remedies.

From Medicine in Virginia, 1607-1699 by Hughes, Thomas Proctor

V. Inverted motions of the intestinal canal with all the lymphatics, which open into it, constitute the ileus, or iliac passion; in which disease it sometimes happens, that clysters are returned by the mouth.

From Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Darwin, Erasmus

They likewise administered emollient clysters if the evacuations were bloody.

From On the cattle plague: or, Contagious typhus in horned cattle. Its history, origin, description, and treatment by Bourguignon, Honor?

I applied clysters and other remedies to the patient without effect.

From A Week's Tramp in Dickens-Land by Hughes, William R. (William Richard)