douche
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One Hutchinson man touted the palliative magic of a particular “nasal douche and throat gargle.”
From Slate ● May 16, 2020
But he was also accused of being an “Instagram douche meets cult leader” and “Steve Jobs meets Jim Jones”.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 9, 2020
“We don’t like what we see now & sadly ppl still romanticize, venerate and imitate huge douche bags from the past. So calling it out is right.”
From Fox News ● Feb. 20, 2019
Indeed, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists recommend that women do not douche, and that they allow the vagina to maintain its normal healthy population of protective microbial flora.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 19, 2013
For a moment or two I purposely paid no attention; then like a douche of cold water I recognized the voice.
From Mortmain by Train, Arthur Cheny
Since the dawn of civilization it’s been the human race versus a few power-lord douches.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2024
Black women also reported higher use of feminine hygiene products, like douches, which have been linked with higher levels of ortho-phthalates.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 24, 2023
“Vaginal pH is maintained by lactobacilli. Soaps, cleansers and douches will only hurt this bacteria, so they are all bad pH-wise,” Gunter wrote in a recent New York Times piece.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 22, 2020
From pink pills to help women with so-called hysteria, to vaginal douches to keep them "clean", the historical displays show how gynaecology has often been dominated by superstition and ignorance.
From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2018
As to hydrotherapy, and especially cold douches, their principal indication is in certain nervous affections, where their effect is to enable the subject to master the emotional reactions which are habitually exaggerated.
From Mentally Defective Children by Binet, Alfred
Back in 1985, according to the National Survey of Family Growth, 37 percent of American women aged 15-44 regularly douched.
From Slate ● Nov. 21, 2011
Then she was douched with bicarbonate and bore four males, two females.
From Time Magazine Archive
Manipulations to correct the deformity should be carried out twice or thrice daily, and the limbs are also massaged and douched.
From Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. by Miles, Alexander
The limb is exercised, massaged, and douched, and protected from cold and other injurious influences.
From Manual of Surgery Volume First: General Surgery. Sixth Edition. by Thomson, Alexis
He swayed and turned them with his stream of talk, he douched them cold, he blew them warm, he startled them, and touched them.
From The Heritage of the Kurts, Volume I (of 2) by Bj?rnson, Bj?rnstjerne
I recently spoke to two colorectal surgeons for a previous question posed to this column about douching that required a rather intricate answer.
From Slate ● Dec. 23, 2019
Almost no one could be Joan Collins douching with diamonds, but you could see yourself as Grace Van Owen’s forever-lunching legal eagle.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 17, 2018
These days, douching seems as ancient as dial-up, with just 12 percent of women aged 18-44 using the feminine hygiene products.
From Slate ● Nov. 26, 2011
Treatment.—The slighter forms of injury by compression recover under massage, douching, and electricity.
From Manual of Surgery Volume First: General Surgery. Sixth Edition. by Thomson, Alexis
Syringe.—The ordinary enema is not a particularly suitable appliance for the purpose of douching.
From Safe Marriage A Return to Sanity by Lane, William Arbuthnot
