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clyster-pipe
A tube or pipe for administering clysters.
1604Shakes. Oth. ii. i. 178 Yet againe, your fingers to your lippes? Would they were Clister-pipes for your sake. 1622Fletcher Sea Voyage i. i, Come Surgeon, out with your glister-pipe And strike a galliard. 1755Smollett Quix. (1803) IV. 120, I know not what to send, except some clyster-pipes, which are very curiously turned and mounted in this island. 1882Syd. Soc. Lex., Clyster-pipe, the anal tube of an enema apparatus. Also, the primitive apparatus itself; a bladder to which a pipe or tube was attached.
†b. A contemptuous name for a medical man.
1622Massinger & Dekker Virgin Martyr iv. i, Thou stinking clyster-pipe, where's the god of rest, Thy pills and base apothecary drugs Threaten'd to bring unto me? a1672Wood Life 3 May an. 1661, John Haselwood, a proud starch'd, formal and sycophantizing Clisterpipe, who was the Apothecary to Clayton when he practiced Physick. |